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Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News* <#SECTION_1>

• Poll: Voters Cool To Notion Of Socialist President Or President Over 75
Years Old. <#S1>

• CPAC Straw Poll Labels Biden As Biggest Challenge To Trump Reelection.
<#S2>

• Biden’s Lengthy Ruminations On A 2020 Run Have Ripple Effect On
Democratic Field. <#S3>

• The Hill: Biden Seeking To Lock In Donor Support Ahead Of Likely 2020 Run.
<#S4>

• Media Analyses: “Electability” Would Likely Be A Key Focus Of Biden Bid.
<#S5>

• WPost’s Rubin: Biden’s “Sensibility” Would Appeal To Voters. <#S6>

• Brad Bannon: Experience Is Biden’s “Greatest Asset” And “Biggest
Liability.” <#S7>

• Carper Hoping Biden Enters 2020 Race. <#S8>

• Warren Disagrees With Biden’s Assessment Of Pence As A “Decent Guy.” <#S9>

• Writer Critical Of Hunter Biden’s Reported Equity Deal With China-Owned
Bank. <#S10>

• Daily Caller Says Biden Has “History Of Making Racially Charged Remarks.”
<#S11>

• CNN Analyst Likened Trump To Hitler Over A Phrase Identical To One Biden
Used In 2011. <#S12>

• Cuomo Waiting On Biden’s Announcement Before Deciding On 2020 Run. <#S13>

• Sanders Officially Launches 2020 Presidential Campaign. <#S14>

• Hickenlooper Announces 2020 Bid. <#S15>

• Inslee Launches Presidential Campaign Focused On Climate Change. <#S16>

• California Paid $1.1M In Settlements In Harassment, Retaliation Claims
While Harris Was State AG. <#S17>

• Bloomberg Aides Interviewing For Staff In Iowa, New Hampshire Ahead Of
Possible 2020 Bid. <#S18>

• Democratic Presidential Contenders Mark Anniversary Of “Bloody Sunday” In
Selma. <#S19>

• WPost A1: Centrist Democrats Pushing Against Far-Left Policies Ahead Of
2020. <#S20>

• WPost A1: 2020 Democrats Prioritize Black Voter Outreach. <#S21>

*Leading the News* <#SECTION_2>

• Trump Claims “Presidential Harassment” As Democrats Step Up
Investigations. <#S22>

*Foreign Policy* <#SECTION_3>

• Trump Suggests Cohen Hearing Contributed To North Korea “Walk.” <#S23>

• Pompeo: Trump Confronting Obama’s Foreign Policy Failures. <#S24>

• Reports: US, China Close To Trade Deal. <#S25>

• Bolton Discusses Fight Against ISIS In Syria. <#S26>

• American-Born ISIS Spouse Says She Has Right To Return To US. <#S27>

• ISIS Fiercely Defends Last Enclave Against US-Backed Syrian Forces. <#S28>

• US Probes Whether Pakistan Used American Jets To Down Indian Warplane.
<#S29>

*Domestic Policy* <#SECTION_4>

• Media Analyses: Paul’s Backing Of Disapproval Resolution Sets Stage For
First Trump Veto. <#S30>

• Warner, Nadler Criticize Trump Ordering Security Clearance For Kushner.
<#S31>

• Lawmakers Investigating Whether Cohen Had Role In Pardon Discussions.
<#S32>

• NYTimes Report: Intelligence Officials Revamp Trump’s Briefings To Focus
On Trade. <#S33>

• Bloomberg Analysis: Trump Using Complaints About Fed To Stir Base. <#S34>

• House To Vote On Anti-Corruption Measure This Week. <#S35>

• Enhanced Background Checks Act Sponsors Urge Trump, Senate GOP To Back
Measure. <#S36>

*Cancer Research* <#SECTION_5>

• “Tech Health Sprint” Collaborates With NCI To Apply AI To Federal Health
Data. <#S37>

• Review Article Finds Several Explanations For Low Cure Rates For B-Cell
Lymphoma In Lower- And Middle-Income Countries. <#S38>

*Editorials/Op-Eds* <#SECTION_6>

• New York Times. <#S39>

• Washington Post. <#S40>
Biden in the News
Poll: Voters Cool To Notion Of Socialist President Or President Over 75
Years Old.

Bloomberg
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(3/3, Krasny) reports that an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll
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of 720 US voters, taken Feb. 24-27, finds that “Americans are least
favorable toward a presidential candidate who’s a socialist or one who’s
older than 75.” Just “25 percent of respondents ranked ‘socialist’ as a
desirable trait for a candidate. Only 37 percent said ‘someone over 75’ was
desirable, according to the” poll. Bloomberg adds, “Early polls have shown
that among front-runners for the Democratic nomination are former Vice
President Joe Biden, 76, who is still deciding whether to run, and Vermont
Senator Bernie Sanders, 77, who has announced another presidential bid.
[President] Trump is 72.”

*NBC News/WSJournal Poll: 41% Would Vote To Reelect Trump. *In an
online article, NBC News
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(3/3, Murray) reported that the poll shows Trump “faces formidable
obstacles in his bid for re-election.” Of those surveyed, 41 percent “say
they would re-elect him next year; 58 percent don’t think he’s been honest
and truthful regarding the Russia probe; and 60 percent disapprove of his
recent national emergency declaration to build a border wall.” Even so,
Trump’s “job rating remains stable with nearly 90 percent of Republicans
approving of his job. And a majority of Americans remain confident in the
economy.” Politico
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(3/3, Vasquez) reported that in the poll, 41 percent of those surveyed
“said they would definitely or likely vote for Trump in 2020; 48 percent
said they would definitely or likely vote for the Democratic nominee
instead.”
CPAC Straw Poll Labels Biden As Biggest Challenge To Trump Reelection.

The Hill
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(3/2, Wong) reported “grass-roots activists at the annual Conservative
Political Action Conference” are “confident Donald Trump will win a second
term, but many attendees of the nation’s largest gathering of conservative
activists agreed that Joe Biden poses the greatest threat to the president
in 2020.” The Washington Times
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(3/2, Sherfinski, Dinan) reported that Biden “was the most feared opponent
by nearly 40 percent of voters” at CPAC, while “Sens. Bernard Sanders and
Kamala Harris were a distant second and third.” According to the Washington
Times/CPAC straw poll, “between 11 and 12 percent picked the two senators,
out of a list of more than 22 possible candidates.” The Times added that
ex-Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) “trailed far back in fourth place at 4.5
percent,” with other lagging even further behind.
Biden’s Lengthy Ruminations On A 2020 Run Have Ripple Effect On Democratic
Field.

Under the headline “Biden’s Hamlet Act Ripples Across 2020 Field,” Politico
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(3/4, Caputo) reports this morning, “The Democratic presidential primary is
waiting on Joe. Candidates-in-waiting admit former Vice President Joe Biden
is a factor in their decision-making. Democratic donors and bundlers are
sitting on their wallets,” and a “pool of seasoned campaign hands” are “in
wait-and-see mode, closely attuned to Biden’s next move. The shadow Biden
casts over the Democratic field is a sign of his stature within the party”
and “a reflection of the lane he would occupy if he chose to run. Biden’s
appeal to the white working class and moderates puts him squarely in the
path of” potential contenders such as ex-New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg (D) and ex-Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-VA), “coloring their
deliberations about the race. Biden said last week that he is ‘very close’
to a decision, and that it might come as early as April.”
The Hill: Biden Seeking To Lock In Donor Support Ahead Of Likely 2020 Run.

The Hill
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(3/3, Parnes) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden “is trying to
get donors to commit to his presidential campaign before launching a
much-anticipated bid in the coming weeks. Sources close to Biden expect him
to enter the race, but they say he is trying to get his fundraising in line
in an effort to start strong out of the gates.” The Hill quoted a “Biden
ally” as saying, “It’s a priority. If you don’t have a good second quarter
showing that could be problematic.” The Hill added that Biden “has been
making the rounds in recent weeks, calling donor after donor to earn their
support.” Biden “has a pitch: He explains how he intends to win in a
competitive Democratic Party and then go on to beat President Trump.” Those
“pitches for support from Biden are important, allies say, since
fundraising has been a weakness for the former vice president.”
Media Analyses: “Electability” Would Likely Be A Key Focus Of Biden Bid.

Writing for the Washington Post
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(3/2), Dan Balz said, that if former Vice President Joe Biden runs for
president, he “must count on electability as by far the paramount question
on the minds of voters – in the primaries and the general election –
because of [President] Trump.” Balz added, “The case he is likely to make,
if he runs, would focus on two aspects of electability. First, that a
majority of voters have grown weary of an experiment with a president who
came to office with no experience and whose tenure has produced nonstop
turmoil. Biden could argue that he has the experience to be president on
day one and the temperament to calm the nation. Second, and vitally
important, that he can win where Democrats must win to defeat Trump, in
Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.”

The Los Angeles Times
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(3/1, Hook) reported that Democratic voters currently “share one top
priority: Picking a nominee who will beat President Trump in 2020.”
Consequently, ahead of the fight for the Democratic presidential
nomination, “much of the debate seems certain to focus on the elusive
quality labeled ‘electability.’” The Times said that Biden would “likely
lean heavily on the case that his long experience makes the 76-year-old the
party’s safest bet to win the White House.” However, some “Democrats
believe the party must put up a candidate better equipped than” Biden “to
speak to and harness the energy of the younger generation of voters that
helped deliver victory to the party in the 2018 midterm elections.”

Under the headline “Biden Leans Toward Another Run, While The Heart
Of His Party Has Shifted,” the Wall Street Journal
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(3/1, Thomas, Epstein) quoted ex-Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) as saying that
Biden “feels it is so important for the country that the Democrats nominate
someone who can win the election and end the Trump presidency. I believe
Joe feels like this is his time.”

In their syndicated column that appears on, among others, the
website of the Greenville (NC) Daily Reflector
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(3/2), Eleanor Clift and Douglas Cohn write of a possible Biden bid, “There
are no great exposés coming out about him and his family. Will Democrats
place their confidence in the tried and true? It’s a gamble Biden appears
ready to make, and, as of now, the majority of his fellow citizens agree,
apparently driven by their desire to return honor, dignity, and experience
to the White House.”

In a piece for the Cavalier Daily (VA)
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(3/4), “Viewpoint Writer” Thomas Driscoll says that “both the midterms in
2018 and Hillary Clinton’s failed Presidential campaign in 2016 have
demonstrated that Democrats will need to a nominee whose message and style
appeals to a broad and inclusive segment of the American electorate.
Instead of nominating someone who is merely idealistic, Democrats will need
to find a candidate capable of regaining the trust of the American
electorate and whose message will serve to provide a renewed sense of hope
and optimism in contrast to the current political climate. In short, what
Democrats will need the most in whoever they choose to nominate for
president is someone like...Biden,” whose “greatest strength has always
been his ability to relate with ‘middle America,’ a segment of the
electorate which overwhelmingly favored Trump in 2016 and ultimately cost
Clinton the election.”
WPost’s Rubin: Biden’s “Sensibility” Would Appeal To Voters.

In a blog post on the website of the Washington Post
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(3/3), Jennifer Rubin said that former Vice President Joe Biden “is not any
less committed to universal health care or anti-climate-change measures or
raising take-home pay for working-class families than others in the race.
What would set him apart is a certain wiliness and a sensibility that
voters, even those who oppose his policies, analogize to a pair of
comfortable shoes. The race could use someone who knows how one gets things
done (like Obamacare, he’ll tell voters) and some sense of proportion. When
Biden says, ‘We can fix these things’ or ‘We can do this,’ he reduces
problems to manageable size and offers the promise that solutions are
attainable.”
Brad Bannon: Experience Is Biden’s “Greatest Asset” And “Biggest Liability.”

In an op-ed for The Hill
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(3/3), Democratic pollster Brad Bannon said that in terms of foreign
policy, “Biden would be a steady hand in a tumultuous world after
[President] Trump’s erratic tenure. Biden has a wealth of experience in the
world arena,” which “is invaluable in a world full of threats to American
national security.” However, Bannon said that Biden’s “experience is his
greatest asset and his biggest liability,” adding that Biden “served 38
years as a US senator from Delaware and eight as Vice President,” working
“effectively within a system that most Americans don’t think works for
them.”
Carper Hoping Biden Enters 2020 Race.

In an online article, Delaware Public Media
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(3/3, Mueller) reported that Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) says he’s hoping former
Vice President Joe Biden enters the 2020 race for president. In an
interview, Carper said, “Hopefully Joe will listen to the voices of myself
and a bunch of other people. People say to me everyday ‘Do you think he’ll
run, do you think he’ll run?’ Around the country people say to me ‘Do you
think he’ll run?’ There’s a lot of support for him doing that.” Carper
“said he hears support for Biden across the country. ‘There’s a belief that
he could win and that he would bring civility in this country and unite our
country in a way that frankly we’re about ready for,’ he said.”
Warren Disagrees With Biden’s Assessment Of Pence As A “Decent Guy.”

The Des Moines (IA) Register
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(3/2, Hardy) reported that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-IA), campaigning in
Iowa, “criticized Vice President Mike Pence Saturday morning, saying he is
not a decent man because of his stance on LGBTQ rights.” A journalist
“asked Warren if she agreed with former Vice President Joe Biden’s recent
defense of Pence after the sitting veep received a cool reception at a
foreign policy summit in Munich.” Biden last week “characterized Pence as a
‘decent guy.’ ‘I’m sorry, I followed Pence’s history on LBGTQ Americans and
I don’t think that is a decent position,’ Warren said. ‘You don’t think the
vice president is a decent man?’ the reporter pressed. ‘No,’ Warren said.”

Drawing from the Register story, the Huffington Post
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(3/3, Golgowski) reported on Warren’s remarks, then added that Biden “late
last week quickly sought to walk back his praise of Pence after called out
by former ‘Sex and the City’ star-turned-activist Cynthia Nixon. She
criticized him on Twitter and in a Washington Post op-ed
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(3/3) on Saturday for dishing out ‘hollow civility.’”

*Cillizza Analyzes Flap Over Biden Remark. *In an online “analysis”
for CNN
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(3/1), Chris Cillizza identified what he said “are three things” Biden’s
remark abut Pence being a “decent guy” and his subsequent “apology” for the
comment “tells us: 1) Biden is a creature of a totally different political
time.” The comment is “a reflection of the general collegiality that
reigned in politics when Biden came up in the game.” Cillizza added, “2)
Biden is definitely running for president. ... 3) Biden is going to try to
placate the left.”
Writer Critical Of Hunter Biden’s Reported Equity Deal With China-Owned
Bank.

In a Daily Caller
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(3/2) op-ed, Take Back Our Republic Executive Director John Pudner
criticized what he described as said that ahead of “the release of Robert
Mueller’s report, it is worth noting the hypocrisy of many progressive
campaign reform advocates who ignore much more obvious pay-for-play
politics on the left, a major point when the nation debates whether Russia
meddled in the 2016 presidential election. Progressives lose credibility if
they fail to applaud President Trump’s company for returning the $191,538
in total profits it received from foreign officials using Trump properties,
or fail to criticize Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe
Biden, for not returning the $1.5 billion equity deal that Hunter
reportedly arranged with China’s state-owned bank as a joint investment
fund. Hunter, who runs Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, secured the deal in
2013 at the same time that President Xi Jinping was in Washington meeting
with his father.”
Daily Caller Says Biden Has “History Of Making Racially Charged Remarks.”

Writing for the Daily Caller
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(3/3), Peter Hasson highlighted what he said are examples of former Vice
President Joe Biden’s “history of making racially charged remarks.” For
example, Hasson said that Biden “expressed a separate-but-equal view toward
racial desegregation efforts in schools during a 1975 interview with US
News & World Report.” Biden “made similar arguments against busing in a
1975 NPR interview the Washington Examiner resurfaced in January. Biden
called busing ‘a rejection of the whole movement of black pride.’” And
speaking “with the Philadelphia Enquirer that same year, Biden praised
notorious segregationist George Wallace.”
CNN Analyst Likened Trump To Hitler Over A Phrase Identical To One Biden
Used In 2011.

Under the headline “CNN Analyst Compared Trump To Hitler For Something Joe
Biden Said First,” the Daily Caller
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(3/2, Kruta) reported, “CNN analyst Sam Vinograd claimed that part of
President Donald Trump’s CPAC speech on Saturday ‘made her sick.’ What she
failed to mention was that former Vice President Joe Biden had said it
first.” Vinograd said “that one line in particular, where the president
called for Americans to ‘reclaim our heritage,’ reminded her of Hitler.”
The DC added that Vinograd “also happens to be a senior advisor at the
Biden Institute – and what she left out was that the institute’s namesake,
Joe Biden, used that exact same call to action in a 2011 speech.” Townhall
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(3/3, Meads) reported, “In 2011, Biden told a crowd of people, ‘It’s time
to fight back! It’s time to reclaim our heritage!’” In an online article, Fox
News
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(3/3, Re) also reported on the story.
Cuomo Waiting On Biden’s Announcement Before Deciding On 2020 Run.

Writing for The Atlantic
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(2/28), Edward-Isaac Dovere said that in a January interview, he asked Gov.
Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), “Would you like to be president?” Dovere said that
Cuomo, responding to the question, “dodges it over and over by talking
about how much he wants to do his job as governor well. Finally he says,
Well, Joe Biden is running anyway.” Asked what he’d do if Biden doesn’t
enter the race, Cuomo replied, “Call me back.” Dovere added that Cuomo is
“waiting on Biden. Other than that, Cuomo clearly thinks he has a stronger
case to make than any of the people running right now. But not so strong
that he’s ready to actually make it.”
Sanders Officially Launches 2020 Presidential Campaign.

The New York Times
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(3/2, Ember) reported “many of the words” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) “used
in Brooklyn on Saturday as he kicked off his second run for president were
familiar: ‘revolution,’ ‘economic justice,’ ‘prison-industrial complex.’
But one word was not: ‘I.’” The Times said that “during his last
presidential campaign, and throughout his political career, Mr. Sanders has
offered a policy-focused message almost entirely devoid of personal
details. At Saturday’s rally, however, he did something new: He talked
about himself.”

The Washington Post
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(3/2, Sullivan) similarly reported that Sanders made a “new emphasis on his
life story, a strategy designed to help him stand out from his Democratic
rivals and President Trump.” The Post added that Sanders “highlighted the
financial strains his family faced during his childhood, his father’s
flight from poverty and anti-Semitism in Poland and his own involvement in
the civil rights movement.” Sanders also “sought to contrast his upbringing
with Trump’s, saying, he ‘did not have a father who gave me millions of
dollars to build luxury skyscrapers, casinos and country clubs.’” The CBS
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(3/2, story 11, 0:20, Alexander) provided similar coverage in brief
broadcasts.

*Sanders Seeks To Retain Control Over Campaign. *The New York Times
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(3/1, Ember, Martin) reports that as he makes his second White House run,
Sanders “is at least attempting to mount a different kind of campaign.” The
Times said that “even as he builds a more sophisticated and modern
organization, Mr. Sanders’s iconoclasm and possessiveness over his brand of
democratic socialism has created turmoil in his own ranks.” However, “in
interviews over the last week, his aides and advisers said” Sanders “has
consented to some strategic changes as he tries to win over a party that in
the Trump era is not singularly focused on economic inequality.”
Hickenlooper Announces 2020 Bid.

The AP
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(3/4, Riccardi) reports that ex-Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) this morning
announced a 2020 bid for president, “casting himself as a can-do uniter who
is used to overcoming adversity and accomplishing liberal goals in a
politically divided state. ‘I’m running for president because we need
dreamers in Washington, but we also need to get things done,’ Hickenlooper,
66, said in a video announcing his campaign. ‘I’ve proven again and again I
can bring people together to produce the progressive change Washington has
failed to deliver.’”

The Denver Post
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(3/4, Garcia) reports that in the video, Hickenlooper framed “himself as a
proven leader with a list of progressive policy wins. ‘I’m running for
president because we’re facing a crisis that threatens everything we stand
for,’ Hickenlooper says in a taped announcement while the image of
President Donald Trump flashes across the screen.” The Washington Post
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(3/3, Weigel) reports that in announcing his bid, Hickenlooper touted “his
accomplishments in a state that moved to the left during his” two terms as
governor. He “presided over steady economic growth, the legalization of
marijuana – which he initially opposed – and a surge that put Democrats in
full control of a once-conservative state.”

Politico
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(3/4, McCaskill) reports, “After a kickoff rally in Denver on Thursday,
Hickenlooper’s next stop as a presidential candidate will be a two-day tour
through Iowa.” He “begins at a disadvantage there, with low name
recognition and a smaller campaign infrastructure than most rivals.”
However, “Iowa Democrats say there’s precedent for a candidate like
Hickenlooper to do well in the caucuses – only it was nearly a half-century
ago, when then-Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter was largely unknown before he
finished ahead of the four other candidates here in 1976.” The Los Angeles
Times
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(3/4, Stokols) reports that Hickenlooper’s “strategists hope to build on”
his “identity as a non-Washington candidate in a field heavy with
Washington figures. Even that distinction will have to be shared, however,
as” Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) entered the presidential race “on Friday,
becoming the first governor to join the race.”
Inslee Launches Presidential Campaign Focused On Climate Change.

The New York Times
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(3/1, Johnson) reported that Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA) on Friday “jumped into
the crowded field of 2020 Democratic contenders for president.” The Times
said that “in a video released by his campaign titled ‘Our Moment,’ Mr.
Inslee spares no time getting to his core environmental message, with the
word ‘climate,’ mentioned at least 10 times in just over 80 seconds.” To
the Washington Post
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(3/1, Wagner), Inslee “made it clear that his bid would be built largely
around” fighting climate change, which he called “the most urgent challenge
of our time.”

The Wall Street Journal
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(3/1, Epstein) said Inslee becomes the 13th Democrat to jump into the 2020
campaign for president, while the CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by
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(3/1, story 5, 0:25, Mason) briefly reported that he is the first governor
to join the race.

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(3/3), saying, “We’re the optimists in this debate and we know we can
invent and create and build a clean energy economy. We know we can do that,
because we’re doing it in my state where we built the wind turbine industry
from $0 to $6 billion in 12 years. My legislature passed my 100 percent
clean grid bill. We’re making progress like crazy in my state, but what we
need is a president to do what presidents do, which is to blow the bugle
and really call the country to a higher mission. ... We’re growing jobs in
all kinds of sectors because of my clean energy development fund, a $100
million fund that we have. We are putting people to work in software,
dealing with the integration of batteries, new battery technology.”

In an editorial, the Wall Street Journal
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(3/1) said Inslee’s 2020 bid seems to be mostly an attempt to draw
attention to climate change, rather than a viable attempt to win the
presidency.
California Paid $1.1M In Settlements In Harassment, Retaliation Claims
While Harris Was State AG.

“The California Department of Justice paid more than $1.1 million to settle
claims with employees who alleged they were sexually harassed or retaliated
against by co-workers during the tenure of then-state Atty. Gen. Kamala
Harris from 2011 to 2017, according to documents obtained by” the Los
Angeles Times
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(3/1, Mai-Duc). The Times said that the disclosures “come weeks after
Harris launched her presidential bid, bringing new scrutiny to her record.”
The Times added that “the incidents included allegations that DOJ employees
sexually harassed and retaliated against co-workers, including claims
involving inappropriate touching and cases in which workers felt
uncomfortable with the comments and actions of others.” However, “Harris, a
Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 2016, did not know about the
cases settled by the DOJ until they were brought to her attention by The
Times, said her spokesman, Chris Harris.”
Bloomberg Aides Interviewing For Staff In Iowa, New Hampshire Ahead Of
Possible 2020 Bid.

Sources told CNBC
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(3/1, Schwartz) that ex-New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s (D) “closest
advisors have been interviewing potential aides in early caucus and primary
states as the billionaire considers a 2020 run for president.” A source
stated, “Bloomberg has the money and smart people around him, but they’re
preparing to build a larger campaign apparatus to compete against the other
2020 candidates if he decides to run.”
Democratic Presidential Contenders Mark Anniversary Of “Bloody Sunday” In
Selma.

NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(3/3, story 11, 0:25, Snow) reported, “This was an emotional day in Selma,
Alabama. Activists and politicians gathered, despite the rain, to mark the
54th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday.’ That’s when peaceful demonstrators
were beaten as they marched for civil rights across the Edmund Pettus
Bridge back in 1965. Today, Hillary Clinton, Senator Cory Booker, and the
Reverend Jesse Jackson were among those who linked arms to follow in their
footsteps.” ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(3/3, story 9, 0:25, Llamas) offered a similar report.

The Washington Post
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(3/3, Viser) reports that Booker, a presidential candidate, wasn’t the only
2020 contender to appear in Selma. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), an announced
candidate, and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), who is mulling a bid, also took
part in “the day’s events.” The AP
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(3/3, Whack) reports that during a Sunday address at Brown Chapel AME
Church in Selma, Booker spoke “of a looming threat to American democracy
and called for protecting the legacy of the civil rights movement with love
and action.” Said Booker, “It’s time for us to defend the dream. It’s time
that we dare to dream again in America. That is what it takes to make
America great. It is up to us to do the work that makes the dream real.”

Reuters
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(3/3, Jackson) reports that in his speech, Booker said “that the United
States is still failing many Americans, citing poverty and gun violence as
constant threats.” Said Booker, “We live in a nation that is failing its
moral obligations to its children, to its people.” The Washington Examiner
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(3/3, Lim) reports that during his speech, Booker “responded to a
congregation member who shouted that” Hillary Clinton, Democrats’ “2016
presidential nominee, ‘won’ the 2016 election against President Trump. ‘She
got more votes,’” Booker “replied, referring to Clinton’s popular vote
victory. ‘She got more votes.’”

*Clinton Says Absence Of Parts Of Voting Rights Act Contributed To
Her Loss To Trump. *The Washington Times
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(3/3) reports that Hillary Clinton, speaking Sunday at Brown Chapel AME
Church, said “that the absence of crucial parts” of “the Voting Rights Act
contributed to her 2016 defeat to Donald Trump. The Supreme Court in 2013
struck down a part of the law that required the Justice Department to
scrutinize states with a history of racial discrimination in voting.
Congress has yet to address the issue. She said ‘it makes a really big
difference.’”

*WPost’s Tumulty: Booker Setting Himself Apart With “Appeal To Our
Better Selves.” *In her Washington Post
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(3/3) column, Karen Tumulty says, “In the most acrid and divisive political
environment in recent memory...Booker is gambling his presidential hopes on
the unlikely proposition that it is still possible to summon people to
grace.” In campaign speeches, says Tumulty, Booker “weaves a spellbinding
argument with his call to unity and collective decency.” Tumulty adds that
Booker’s “appeal to our better selves sets him apart in a combative
Democratic field. ... And he stands in even sharper contrast from the utter
lack of grace that has defined the presidency of the White House’s current
occupant.”
WPost A1: Centrist Democrats Pushing Against Far-Left Policies Ahead Of
2020.

Centrist Democrats “are beginning to push back against the wave of liberal
energy and shoot-the-moon policy ideas that have captured the party’s
imagination over the last two months,” the Washington Post
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(3/1, Debonis) reported on its front page. The Post said the push-back
comes amid worries the policies “could alienate centrist voters in the 2020
election.” Targeted policies include “Medicare for All,” with some
centrists warning the issue is a non-starter in Congress and proposing
alternatives including lowering the age for Medicare eligibility.

*Ahead Of 2020, Some Pennsylvania Democrats Worry About Party’s
Leftward Lurch. *The New York Times
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(3/3, Gabriel) reported that despite a strong 2018 cycle for Democrats in
Pennsylvania, “there are widespread worries that the momentum” there, “and
in other key Rust Belt states, could screech to a halt if the issues in the
2020 presidential primaries and the party’s eventual nominee stray too far
left for the region’s many centrist voters.” Said ex-Gov. Ed Rendell
(D-PA), a former DNC chief, “The more we have presidential candidates or
newly elected congresspeople talking about the Green New Deal, talking
about ‘Medicare for all,’ talking about socialism, the more that plays into
the Trump campaign’s hands.”

In his New York Times
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(3/3) column, David Leonhardt writes, “The energy in the 2020 Democratic
campaign has been coming from the left,” with contenders “pushing Medicare
for All, a Green New Deal, a wealth tax and other ideas that are more
progressive than anything a recent Democratic nominee has favored. Much of
this shift — which has been focused on economic policy — is smart,” as “the
American public leans decidedly left on economics.” However, “there are
also risks in the Democrats’ move to the left.” Polling “suggests that the
2020 Democratic field would benefit from more candidates who made an effort
to appeal to both the left and the center. ... I understand why the
Democrats have been focusing their attention on the left. It has a newfound
– and welcome – energy. But the best strategy for beating Trump in 2020
doesn’t involve only the left. And beating Trump is terribly important.”
WPost A1: 2020 Democrats Prioritize Black Voter Outreach.

In a front-page article, the Washington Post
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(3/2, A1, Viser, Wootson) reports that “in the early stages of the 2020
Democratic presidential contest, one with a historically diverse field,
including” Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) “as prominent
African American candidates, black voters have quickly become a highly
sought-after electoral prize.” According to the Post, “The courtship is
playing out in complex ways throughout the early voting states, a dynamic
that will become more visible Sunday as several candidates appear in Selma,
Ala., taking part in a remembrance of Bloody Sunday, when civil rights
marchers in 1965 were viciously attacked by police as they crossed the
Edmund Pettus Bridge.” The Post adds “Booker will speak at a church, and,
in a twist, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will attend a ‘unity breakfast’
honoring Hillary Clinton, despite ongoing tensions between their two camps.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), who’s contemplating a presidential run, is
also attending; Harris, who attended last year, won’t be at the event.”
Leading the News
Trump Claims “Presidential Harassment” As Democrats Step Up Investigations.

President Trump blasted the ongoing Russia investigation in a barrage of
tweets throughout the day on Sunday. In a pair of tweets
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early Sunday, Trump wrote, “After more than two years of Presidential
Harassment, the only things that have been proven is that Democrats and
other broke the law. The hostile Cohen testimony, given by a liar to reduce
his prison time, proved no Collusion! His just written book manuscript
showed what he ...
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said was a total lie, but Fake Media won’t show it. I am an innocent man
being persecuted by some very bad, conflicted & corrupt people in a Witch
Hunt that is illegal & should never have been allowed to start – And only
because I won the Election! Despite this, great success!”

In another tweet
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Sunday, Trump highlighted comments from Rep. Mark Green (R-TN), writing,
“‘Look how they’re acting now and how we act when we’re in the majority.
What the Democrats are doing is an abuse of power. They couldn’t find
anything...they took a Fake Dossier & couldn’t find any Collusion. Now they
have a fake witness in Cohen.’ Congressman Mark Green, (R-TN).” Later in
the day, Trump tweeted
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“Presidential Harassment by ‘crazed’ Democrats at the highest level in the
history of our Country. Likewise, the most vicious and corrupt Mainstream
Media that any president has ever had to endure – Yet the most successful
first two years for any ...
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President. We are WINNING big, the envy of the WORLD, but just think what
it could be?”

Late Sunday afternoon, Trump tweeted
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“For the Democrats to interview in open hearings a convicted liar &
fraudster, at the same time as the very important Nuclear Summit with North
Korea, is perhaps a new low in American politics and may have contributed
to the ‘walk.’ Never done when a president is overseas. Shame!”

In addition, Trump replied to a tweet
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from Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal, who posted a press
release
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from House Minority Leader McCarthy in which he questions an effort by
House Democrats to change the House rules and poses some questions to House
Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff concerning his panel’s questioning of
Michael Cohen. Strassel wrote, “These questions from @GOPLeader for
@RepAdamSchiff deserve attention and answers. Schiff looks to be doing a
whole lot of freelancing. Voters deserve to know why he is communicating in
secret with witnesses/subjects in investigations.” In his reply, Trump wrote
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“And also illegally leaking to Fake News CNN & others?”

Trump retweeted
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a post from Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist who wrote, “Man,
conservatives haven’t been this united on Twitter since the Kavanaugh
confirmation!” as well as a reply
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from one of his followers, who wrote, “President Trump made America great
again! #MAGA Now it’s up to us to help him keep America great. #KAG
#TRUMP2020”. Trump also retweeted
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a post by RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, who wrote, “I completely agree
with Kevin McCarthy. While @realDonaldTrump was in Vietnam, Democrats were
making bogus attacks back in DC.”

The Hill
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(3/3, Conradis) highlights some of Trump’s tweets in a brief story, while
the Washington Times
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(3/3, Howell) says Trump “fumed at the people probing every aspect of his
life shortly after” House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler said his panel
“planned to request documents from 60 people close to Mr. Trump’s inner
circle.” Similarly, the Washington Post
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(3/3, Bade) says Trump “lashed out anew” at the investigation following the
comments from Nadler, who Reuters
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(3/3, Ahmann) reports told ABC’s This Week[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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(3/3) Sunday that his panel will seek to obtain documents from the
Department of Justice, President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and Trump
Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg “as it begins investigations into
possible obstruction of justice and abuse of power” by the President.
Nadler said, “We are going to initiate investigations into abuses of power,
into corruption...and into obstruction of justice. ... It’s our job to
protect the rule of law. ... It’s very clear that the President obstructed
justice.”

The Wall Street Journal
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(3/3, Ballhaus, Volz) reports Nadler said his committee would also request
documents from the President’s son Eric, and senior White House advisers
Jared Kushner and his wife, the President’s daughter, Ivanka. In addition,
the panel could seek documents from Rhona Graff, the President’s assistant
at the Trump Organization, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly,
and former White House counsel Don McGahn. The New York Times
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(3/3, Thrush, Fandos) reports Nadler “said...that he planned to request
documents from more than 60 people with ties to President Trump” with a
goal of presenting “the case to the American people about obstruction of
justice, corruption and abuse of power.” Nadler also said it would be an
“impeachable offense” if Trump participated in an effort to “sabotage a
fair election,” but he warned, “impeachment is a long way down the road.
... We don’t have the facts yet.” The AP
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(3/3, Yen) says Nadler “isn’t calling the inquiry an impeachment
investigation but said House Democrats, now in the majority, are simply
doing ‘our job to protect the rule of law.’”

Politico
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(3/3, Vasquez) reports House Minority Leader McCarthy, also appearing on ABC’s
This Week[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(3/3), said Nadler “decided to impeach the President the day the President
won the election. ... Nadler is setting the framework now that the
Democrats are not to believe the Mueller report. They’re now saying we have
to do our own investigation.”

Meanwhile, Errol Barnett said on the CBS Evening News[image: Image
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(3/3, story 4, 1:40, Begnaud) the “blistering testimony from the
President’s former fixer Michael Cohen before the House Oversight Committee
has given Democrats a road map for expanding their oversight investigation
into Mr. Trump’s business practices,” and Tara Palmeri said on ABC World
News Tonight[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(3/3, story 2, 1:50, Llamas) that House Democrats are “preparing to launch
a sweeping investigation, deep into the President and his inner circle.”

The Washington Times
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(3/3, Jalonick) describes Democrats as “emboldened by their new majority,”
and says they are “undertaking several broad new investigations into
President Donald Trump and setting the stage for a post-Robert Mueller
world.” Democrats “in charge of a half-dozen House committees are planning
to flood the administration with document requests, calls for testimony and
even subpoenas if necessary. The investigations reach far beyond Mueller’s
focus of Russian interference and collusion in the 2016 campaign.” Bloomberg
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(3/3, Niquette, Strohm) says House Democrats are “gearing up for
investigations and hearings that they say will go beyond whatever Mueller
finds in his investigation” including, “contacts with Russia and questions
about foreign funding for the Trump Organization and the president’s
inaugural committee.” House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff told CBS’
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(3/3) Sunday that it would be “perilous” for the country “if questions
about Trump’s finances were ignored.” Schiff “cited concerns about the
proposed Trump skyscraper development in Moscow that Trump was pursuing
during the presidential campaign, and allegations of Russians laundering
money through the Trump Organization that are being investigated.” He said,
“There are any number of witnesses that can shed light on whether America’s
national security is compromised because the President has been pursuing
financial interests with the Russians.”

The Washington Examiner
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(3/3, Jativa) reports Schiff also told CBS’ Face The Nation[image: Image
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(3/3) there is “direct evidence” of collusion between the Trump campaign
and Russia. Schiff said, “I think there is direct evidence in the e-mails
from the Russians through their intermediary offering dirt on Hillary
Clinton as part of what is described in writing as the Russian government
effort to help elect Donald Trump. They offer that dirt. There is an
acceptance of that offer in writing from the President’s son Don Jr. and
there is overt acts in furtherance of that. ... That is the meeting at
Trump Tower and all the lies to cover up that meeting at the Trump Tower
and apparently lies that the President participated in. That, to me, is
direct evidence, but there’s also abundant circumstantial evidence.”

Similarly, Politico
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(3/3, Tamborrino) reports Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the top Democrat on the
Senate Intelligence Committee, told NBC’s Meet The Press[image: Image
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(3/3) Sunday that lawmakers have found “enormous amounts of evidence” of
possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia. Warner told CNN’s
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(3/3) that “we have this whole question where, again, Mr. Cohen put out the
fact that he believes that Mr. Trump knew about the meeting in Trump tower
that included Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, the campaign manager, Paul
Manafort. Clearly a meeting that was not about Russian adoptions but what
about the idea of turning over dirt on Hillary Clinton. You add that on top
of Paul Manafort giving campaign materials. So anyone that says there’s no
evidence of collaboration, there’s plenty of evidence. The question is,
what kind of full conclusion do we reach, and I’m going to reserve my
judgment on that conclusion until we finish our investigation.”

Julie Pace of the AP said on CNN’s Inside Politics[image: Image
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(3/3), “The Mueller report has hung over this White House for months. But
they are now having to come to grips with the reality that once that is
done, that doesn’t end these legal questions around him. If anything, I
think the Southern District investigations are his greater problem. It
seems to more directly touch his business, his associates, and potentially
Trump himself. That doesn’t mean there won’t be something in the Mueller
report that won’t be damaging to him. We just don’t know. That ultimately
is more of a political question, probably for Congress. But this is a
President, I think, who is having to come to grips with the fact that the
next two years of his presidency are going to continue to look probably
even worse in terms of these legal questions than the first two.”

Toluse Olorunnipa of the Washington Post said on CNN’s Inside
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(3/3), “Think about all the different crimes that Michael Cohen alleged the
President engaged in. ... There are a number of different areas where
Democrats can pull on those strings and decide how much they want to
investigate. I think that even after Robert Mueller wraps up his report and
says whether or not there was Russia collusion, you are going to have
Democrats in Congress spending months if not years, investigating all of
those various areas, getting the President’s tax returns, which may even
provide more information about other things the President might have done
as a businessman. So he’s in for sort of a world of hurt when it comes to
the Democratic investigations.”

*Bloomberg Analysis: Mueller Report Will Start An “Explosive Chain
Of Events.” *Bloomberg
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(3/3, Strohm, Liebert) reports in an analysis that when special counsel
Robert Mueller submits his final report, it will touch off “an explosive
chain of events,” including “a struggle in Congress, on cable TV and social
media and probably in the courts over how much must be disclosed from what
will begin as a secret report” to Attorney General Barr. Moreover, there
will be “an epic political fight over whether the findings implicate
President Donald Trump in wrongdoing that may even merit his impeachment,
as some Democrats say, or clear him after a 21-month investigation that he
and other Republicans call a ‘witch hunt.’”

*Stone Suggests Mueller “Framed” Him. *CNBC
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(3/3, Mangan) reports on its website that Roger Stone, in an Instagram post
Sunday “that appeared to run afoul” of a judge’s gag order barring him from
criticizing the prosecutors in the case against him, “suggested” he was
“framed” by special counsel Robert Mueller. Stone “deleted the only image
in that multi-image post that included ‘Who framed Roger Stone’ language
shortly after CNBC emailed his lawyer to ask about it.”

*Khanna: Southern District Investigation Could Be Trump’s Biggest
Legal Problem. *Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said on MSNBC’s AM Joy[image: Image
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(3/3), “It’s important for people to understand the President did this as
President. This is not going after the President’s financial records before
he assumed the office. This is the President sitting in the Oval Office
writing checks personally to Michael Cohen and directing a conspiracy with
Alan Weisselberg and his son Donald Trump, Jr., to cook the books and
reimburse Michael Cohen and it goes on for a year while he’s President.
It’s deeply concerning. The Southern District of New York’s investigation
is perhaps where the President is in the greatest legal jeopardy.”

*Nunes Wants To Interview 32 People About 2016 Campaign. *The
Washington
Examiner
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(3/3, Chaitin) reports Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the top Republican on the
House Intelligence Committee, “has a tall list of people he still wants to
interview about the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton, and the Russian
interference. The list of 32 names has been submitted to the Democratic
majority of the panel, and includes the likes of Sidney Blumenthal, a key
Clinton ally, former Clinton adviser Jake Sullivan, and Robby Mook,
Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman.” Nunes told Fox News’ Sunday Morning
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(3/3) Sunday “it is imperative to speak with them because of their ties to
the infamous Trump dossier.” Said Nunes, “Why would people in the Clinton
campaign be tweeting out messages about [President] Trump’s involvement
with Russia? It’s because they had the dossier. They were promoting this
message, this dirt, out there in 2016, and we need to ask these Clinton
campaign people where they got it from.”
Foreign Policy
Trump Suggests Cohen Hearing Contributed To North Korea “Walk.”

Bloomberg
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(3/4, Sebenius) reports President Trump said Sunday that the House hearing
of his former lawyer Michael Cohen “contributed to his decision to walk
away from negotiations with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, in a new explanation
for the collapsed talks between the leaders.” Trump tweeted
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“For the Democrats to interview in open hearings a convicted liar &
fraudster, at the same time as the very important Nuclear Summit with North
Korea, is perhaps a new low in American politics and may have contributed
to the ‘walk.’ Never done when a president is overseas. Shame!” Bloomberg
says “Trump’s account on Sunday differed from his explanation last week,
when the president said that he walked out of talks with Kim because the
North Korean leader’s request for sanctions relief was unacceptable.”

Earlier Sunday, Reuters
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(3/3, Spetalnick) reports, Trump tweeted
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“the reason he wanted to curb military drills with South Korea was to save
the United States hundreds of millions of dollars in costs, and suggested
it could also reduce tensions with North Korea.” Wrote Trump, “The reason I
do not want military drills with South Korea is to save hundreds of
millions of dollars for the U.S. for which we are not reimbursed. That was
my position long before I became President. Also, reducing tensions with
North Korea at this time is a good thing!”

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(3/3, story 4, 2:10, Snow) that National Security Adviser Bolton is
“defending the dramatic collapse” of Trump’s summit with Kim, saying that
he considers the summit “a success.” Bennett said Bolton is “downplaying
concerns that the President walked away empty-handed,” saying, “He’s not
desperate for a deal, not with North Korea, not with anybody, if it’s
contrary to American national interest.” To the AP
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(3/3, Freking), Bolton “tried to make that case that Trump advanced
America’s national security interests by rejecting a bad agreement while
working to persuade Kim to take ‘the big deal that really could make a
difference for North Korea.’”

The Washington Post
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(3/3, Sonmez) reports Bolton said the President “was right not to make a
deal that wasn’t in the best interests of the United States.” Bolton told Fox
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(3/3), “I don’t agree at all that it was a failed summit. I think the
obligation of the President of the United States is to defend and advance
American national security interests. And I think he did that by rejecting
a bad deal and by trying again to persuade Kim Jong-un to take the big deal
that really could make a difference for North Korea.”

The Washington Examiner
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(3/3, Jativa) reports Bolton also told Fox News, “What North Korea has done
consistently in the past is promised to denuclearize and then, by the way,
not do it to get economic benefits which will provide their economy a
lifeline, get them out of the trouble they’re in and allow them to go back
to the nuclear program. That kind of mistake is exactly what President
Trump said he would not permit in his administration.”

The Washington Times
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(3/3, Meier) reports Bolton told CBS’ Face The Nation[image: Image removed
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(3/3) that the President is “ready to keep talking” with North Korea and
“is fully prepared to keep negotiating at lower levels or to speak to Kim
Jong-un again when it’s appropriate.” Politico
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(3/3), “I think it was unquestionably a success for the United States
because the President protected, defended American interests. ... I think
he made a very important point to North Korea and to other countries around
the world about negotiating with him. He’s not desperate for a deal – not
with North Korea, not with anybody – if it’s contrary to American national
interests.”

In an interview with USA Today
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(3/3, Shesgreen), Secretary of State Pompeo “also rejected the idea
that...Trump’s summit with the North Korean dictator had resulted in
stalemate and said the Trump administration would not resume joint military
exercises with South Korea.” Pompeo, it says, “reacted angrily” when asked
about the North Korean foreign minister’s state