Trump Admits To Lying To Canadian PM, Trump Org Lawyer Involved In Stormy Daniels Case, And Re-Thinking Alzheimer's

March 15th, 2018 Daybreaker Subscribers, Friday, March 16th will be the last edition of the Daybreaker newsletter. Each weekday morning, Daybreaker brought readers some of the best of TPM, including our top stories, behind-the-scenes quotes from reporters and their sources, and insights from Prime members in the Hive. We want to keep providing our readers with this kind of quality reporting and access to TPM reporters, but feel that Daybreaker, in its current form, no longer adequately serves our readers or our ambitions. We’re sad to see Daybreaker go, but there are exciting things to come. We will be pouring all the editorial effort that went into Daybreaker into new projects, several of which will be rolled out in the next few months. We hope you have enjoyed receiving TPM in your inbox each morning and will continue to visit us on the site. And, as always, thanks for reading! Top Stories --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump Reportedly Admits To Lying To Canada’s Trudeau About Trade Deficit]( The Gist: During a fundraising speech in Missouri Wednesday night, President Donald Trump reportedly told supporters that he made up a trade claim in a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, according to audio of the event obtained by The Washington Post. [Trump Org. Lawyer Involved In February Arbitration With Stormy Daniels]( The Gist: A lawyer for the Trump Organization was involved in arbitration proceedings between Stephanie Clifford, the porn actress who uses the stage name Stormy Daniels, and the company created by Trump attorney Michael Cohen to pay Clifford, according to documents first reported by the Wall Street Journal. [POTUS Reportedly Told Fundraiser That Dem Who Won In PA Is ‘Like Trump’]( The Gist: After Republicans lost another special election to fill an open seat in Congress, President Donald Trump on Wednesday night offered his spin on the loss and suggested that the race was a fluke. From The Reporter's Notebook --------------------------------------------------------------- We used to get at least a day to watch Republicans squirm and scramble after President Trump took a position far outside their orthodoxy, but the cycle is getting much shorter. [TPM's Alice Ollstein tracked]( what happened on Capitol Hill yesterday when the White House first embraced a short-term DACA deal with some border wall funding, and then walked it back mere hours later. Needless to say, GOP lawmakers were not pleased. Agree Or Disagree? --------------------------------------------------------------- Josh Marshall: "The key danger we currently face is not Russia itself. It is the success of the 2016 campaign. I’m not talking about the fact that President Trump won the election. We don’t know the impact of the disruption campaign and in any case, that fact is in the past. I’m talking about the fact that [Russia and Vladimir Putin clearly exercise some control over Donald Trump](. Now. I know that is a dramatic accusation. Perhaps to some, it will appear hyperbolic. But after a year I think there’s no longer any way to doubt that this is true. On every front, he resists taking punitive measures against Russia, even when mandated to do so by US laws. He goes to great lengths never to criticize Russia. In the exceedingly rare cases in which he does, it is in prepared statements written for him by others. In other words, when it’s not really him." Say What?! --------------------------------------------------------------- "Gina Haspel has spent her career defending the American people and homeland. @RandPaul is defending and sympathizing with terrorists." - Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) on Wednesday [attacking]( Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) for opposing current CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel, who played a key role in the CIA's torture program, to lead the agency. BUZZING: Today in the Hive --------------------------------------------------------------- From a TPM Prime member: "This could be good news for the Dems. McDaniel is likely to split the GOP vote against an establishment Republican in the jungle-style Special Election in November. If a strong candidate (Ronnie Musgrove? Brandon Presley?) runs for this seat, the Dem would have an edge — especially if McDaniel and a strong Democrat faced off in the runoff. If McDaniel won, it'd be horrible for the republic. But the silver lining would be that it would clarify the GOP's racist brand for the rest of the country." Related: [Chris McDaniel Switching Senate Races In Mississippi]( Have something to add? Become a [Prime]( member and join the discussion [here](. What We're Reading --------------------------------------------------------------- How Young Is Too Young For Protest? A National Gun-Violence Walkout Tests Schools ([The New York Times]( Re-Thinking Alzheimer’s Research By Looking To Our Ancestors ([The Daily Beast]( [unsubscribe from this list]( | [update subscription preferences]( | [view email in browser](