Tipsheet: Biden seeks donors as he eyes presidential bid

View in your browser     Biden seeks donors as he eyes presidential bid BY AMIE PARNES 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. Read the full story here     5 takeaways as Republicans close ranks at CPAC BY MAX GREENWOOD Conservatives converged on this lavish resort development on the outskirts of Washington this week for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Read the full story here     The top 9 moments from Trump's two-hour CPAC speech BY TAL AXELROD President Trump delivered a freewheeling speech Saturday at the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference that often veered off script and hit on a slew of familiar themes as the White House gears up for the 2020 election. Read the full story here     Trump accuses Dems of peddling ‘bulls---’ amid rising scrutiny BY TAL AXELROD President Trump on Saturday accused his political opponents of coming up empty-handed in their Russia probes and now resorting to peddling “bullshit" amid increasing scrutiny of his personal finances. Read the full story here       Trump says he’ll sign executive order for free speech on college campuses BY TAL AXELROD   President Trump announced Saturday he intends to sign an executive order mandating colleges and universities take steps to guarantee free speech to attain federal research grants.  Read the full story here     Trump blasts 'little shifty Schiff' over probe into finances BY RACHEL FRAZIN President Trump on Saturday blasted Democrats for pushing to investigate his finances while swiping at House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), calling him "little shifty Schiff." Read the full story here     Ocasio-Cortez emerges as GOP’s new foe at conservative confab BY TAL AXELROD The nation's largest annual gathering of conservative activists has a new favorite political villain: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Read the full story here     Sanders slams 'dangerous' Trump in speech launching campaign from Brooklyn BY RACHEL FRAZIN Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) slammed President Trump as "dangerous" during a campaign rally in his native Brooklyn on Saturday to kick off his 2020 Democratic presidential bid. Read the full story here     Dems feel growing pressure on impeachment BY MIKE LILLIS House Democratic leaders are facing new pressures over a radioactive debate they've fought to keep under wraps: the impeachment of President Trump. Read the full story here     New debt showdown begins for Trump, Democrats BY SYLVAN LANE An extension of the nation’s debt limit ran out on Saturday, starting the clock for a potentially painful negotiation between the Democratic House and President Trump on raising the nation’s borrowing limit. Read the full story here     The revenge of Rod Rosenstein BY JONATHAN TURLEY Opinion | As special counsel Robert Mueller prepares his final report and Congress ramps up its own investigations, we soon will have answers to questions over collusion, obstruction, and Russian influence. Yet, President Trump may answer one of the most intriguing questions of all: Is it better to fight one horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses? New developments make it likely that Trump will fight a hundred duck-sized horses, in the form of alleged collateral crimes rather than collusion. None appears life threatening in their own right, so the real question here is what they will represent collectively during the next two years of this administration. Read the full story here     When no North Korean deal is the best deal BY MICHELLE PARK STEEL Opinion | President Trump knows the hard truth about high-stakes negotiations: “Sometimes you have to walk.” That’s what he did in his second summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam. By walking away, Trump signaled that his administration will not follow U.S. administrations before him into signing empty deals that give North Korea too much, while requiring too few promises in return. Read the full story here     The Associated Press: Trump delivers a slashing speech that rouses the right BY KEVIN FREKING In a slashing speech packed with braggadocio and grievance, President Donald Trump denounced Democrats as the party of “the socialist nightmare,” relitigated his crowd sizes back to the inauguration and took on “sick,” ″lunatic” and “dirty” foes at every turn, earning him the unvarnished adoration of cheering conservatives. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: Acquiescence to Trump is now the GOP’s defining trait BY ROBERT COSTA At times erasing the principles that conservatives had claimed as the foundation of the party for more than a half century, Republicans are wholeheartedly accepting behavior and policies from President Trump that would spark outrage in the GOP if they came from a Democratic president. Read the full story here     The New York Times: How the Trump-Kim summit failed: Big threats, big egos, bad bets BY DAVID E. SANGER AND EDWARD WONG Intelligence agencies had warned President Trump that Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, would not be willing to give up the arsenal completely. Read the full story here     The Wall Street Journal: Trump says he was in a ‘horrible position’ between negotiating with Kim, Warmbier’s death BY REBECCA BALLHAUS Parents of tortured student blamed Kim regime after president said he accepted North Korean leader’s word that he didn’t know about abuse. Read the full story here     Reuters: US-backed force expects 'decisive battle' against Islamic State BY ISSAM ABDALLAH The U.S.-backed Syrian force closing in on the last patch of Islamic State (IS) territory near the Iraqi border expects a “decisive battle” on Sunday after advancing gradually, a spokesman said overnight. Read the full story here   Did a friend forward you this email? 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