Mueller Investigation / Roger Stone
- Former Trump campaign chief Manafort to be sentenced March 8 by Andy Sullivan, Lisa Lambert (Reuters)
- Jim Jordan: Michael Cohen’s testimony a ‘charade’ to begin impeaching Trump by Andrew Desidero (Politico)
- “Merely the End of Chapter One”: The Mueller Report, Rumored to Drop Next Week, Is Only the Beginning of Trump’s Hell by Abigail Tracy (Vanity Fair)
- Michael Cohen to testify before Senate Intel panel Tuesday by Andrew Desidero, Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
- It’s Plausible Mueller Will Drop the Biggest Bombshell Ever. It’s Also Plausible He’ll Do Nothing. by Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
- Roger Stone spared jail over crosshairs-on-judge post (BBC)
- A Judge Just Imposed a Strict Gag Order on a Groveling Roger Stone by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
- Roger Stone Barred From Talking About His Case Following Criticism Of Judge by Ryan Lucas (NPR)
- Roger Stone gets full gag order after Instagram post by Darren Samuelsohn, Josh Gerstein, Matthew Choi (Politico)
- How the Republican Response to the Mueller Investigation Breaks With History by Tessa Berenson (TIME)
- IRS Agent Charged With Leaking Michael Cohen’s Bank Records by AP (TIME)
- Antitrust Law Could Help Mueller Prove That Trump Officials Conspired With Russia by Ben Steinberg (Slate)
- Democrats to subpoena Mueller’s report if Bob Barr doesn’t make it public by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- Judge to Roger Stone: ‘How hard was it to come up with a photograph that didn’t have crosshairs?’ by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
- Analysis: The Mueller Report Is Coming. Here’s What to Expect. by Neal K. Katyal (NY Times)
National Emergency / Border Wall
- Critics Say Border Wall Could Harm Wildlife Corridors And Sensitive Desert Terrain by Mallory Falk (NPR)
- Nancy Pelosi Reveals Her Plan to Dismantle Trump’s National Emergency by Eric Lutz (Vanity Fair)
- Schumer: Senate Dems to introduce measure to block Trump’s national emergency by Marianne Levine (Politico)
- Border bites back: El Paso sues to stop Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
- ACLU asks judge to order Trump administration to determine how many children were separated from their parents at border by Maria Sacchetti and Tony Perry (Washington Post)
Other News
- Putin to U.S.: I’m ready for another Cuban Missile-style crisis if you want one by Andrew Osborn (Reuters)
- Despite Trump’s Tough Talk About Migrant Smugglers, He’s Undercut Efforts to Stop Them by Sebastian Rotella, Tim Golden (ProPublica)
- Human Smugglers Are Thriving Under Trump by Sebastian Rotella, Tim Golden, ProPublica (The Atlantic)
- Longtime Trump Friend Under The Microscope For Mideast Ties, Inauguration Role by Scott Horsley (NPR)
- Trump’s Pick To Lead Climate Panel Once Compared CO2 To Jews In Nazi Germany by Ed Mazza (Huffington Post)
- Trump Responds To Jussie Smollett’s Arrest Over Alleged Hoax by Sebastian Murdock (Huffington Post)
- Trump’s own inauguration officials sounded alarms about finances — and the feds have the receipts by Brad Reed (Salon)
- Trump demands 6G technology in rant against American companies: ‘We must be the leader in everything we do’ by Chris Riotta (Independent)
- Trump and Kim Jong Un to meet one-on-one at Vietnam summit by Clark Mindock (Independent)
- Under Trump, White House Interns Reportedly Sign Nondisclosure Agreements on Their First Day (Teen Vogue)
- Judge: Alexander Acosta, Now a Trump Official, Broke Federal Law in Brokering Jeffrey Epstein’s 2008 Plea Deal by Molly Olmstead (Slate)
- Judge: Top Trump Official Went Easy on Billionaire Sex Trafficker by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
- “Extend and Pretend”: Are Deutsche Bank and Trump Playing Chicken Over a $340 Million Loan? by William D. Cohan (Vanity Fair)
- NJ Senate passes bill that would keep Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns by Aris Folley (The Hill)
- Trump, Erdogan hold phone call ahead of US-Turkey military meeting by Brett Samuels (The Hill)
- Peace Treaty, and Peace Prize, for North Korea Appear to Tempt Trump by Mark Landler (Washington Post)
- Trump stays silent on media-hating Coast Guard officer by Andrew Restuccia (Politico)
- ISIS bride’s father sues Trump over blocked return to U.S. by Brent D. Griffiths (Politico)
Analysis
- The Impossible Job of Speaking Truth to Trump by Kathy Gilsinan (The Atlantic)