What America is Talking About:

Amazon's Alexa is laughing at people, and McDonald's is commemorating International Women's Day with a stunt, flipping its Golden Arches logo upside down to look like a "W."

Poll of the Day:
The percentage of American adults who believe Jared Kushner should resign from his position at the White House, according to a Monmouth poll released Wednesday:
J-Kush in Mexico:
Jared Kushner is in Mexico City, where he met with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto without US Ambassador Roberta Jacobson in attendance (she announced earlier this month she's retiring in May). You may remember, Mexico is one of four countries where officials were reported to have discussed how they could manipulate J-Kush because of his inexperience and financial problems. 🤔

Trump's Been Trying to Peep the Special Counsel's Investigation:
The President has had conversations with at least two people who were interviewed by Robert Mueller's team's Russia investigation, per the New York Times. One of them is his former chief of staff Reince Priebus, who was asked by Trump if investigators were "nice," and the other was White House counsel Donald McGahn, who Trump asked to deny a New York Times article claiming Trump asked McGahn to fire Mueller.

The Stormy Daniels Story on Steroids:
Wednesday's White House briefing was filled with dodges and non-answers, but press secretary Sarah Sanders did give one response that shed new light on Trump's alleged affair with Stormy Daniels. When asked if Trump approved the $130,000 payment to her from lawyer Michael Cohen, Sanders said the "case has already been won in arbitration," which was news to me.

The statement by Sanders that the arbitration was won "in the President's favor" is an admission that the non-disclosure agreement exists, and that it directly involves the President. It is the first time the White House has admitted the President was involved in any way with Daniels. A source close to the White House told CNN Trump "is very unhappy" with Sanders' handling of the questions about the story. She "gave the Stormy Daniels storyline steroids yesterday," the source said.

Daniel's lawyer says Trump has "further threatened" his client, obtaining a temporary restraining order, and as late as yesterday, the private mediator who issued the order warned Daniels to not talk about the alleged affair. This morning, Daniels posted a #tbt on Instagram with the caption: "Good morning, haters."
Sam Nunberg Says it Actually Wasn't Hard Prepping for Mueller Testimony:
In an interview with WABC Wednesday, the former Trump aide -- who, you'll remember, said that he didn't want to comply with the special counsel's subpoena because of the time commitment of going through his communications with various people in Trump's orbit was too great -- said it "was much easier to do than I initially thought" and that his bizarre TV media blitz was because he wanted to "do something memorable." 🤦 He said he's now turned over all the documents requested by Mueller.

Hope Hicks Hacked:
During her testimony before the House Intel Committee last week, the former White House comms director said she was unable to access two email accounts -- her personal and one used for her work on Trump's campaign -- and that one had been hacked, although she did not specify which one, sources at the testimony told NBC.

Betsy DeVos and Dwyane Wade Both Visited Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Yesterday:
The education secretary and the Miami Heat star were both at the school in Parkland, Florida, Wednesday. DeVos' visit was closed press, except for a student journalist, a broadcast student and a photographer from the yearbook. You can read the story from Douglas' The Eagle Eye here. Senior Kyra Parrow, who got to ask DeVos a question during a Q&A, said: "She didn’t come to inform us or talk about how we are going to fix this issue; she just came to say that she came. That disappoints me."

Wade's visit played out much differently. He talked with students in the cafeteria during a lunch hour before meeting with classes and friends of Joaquin Oliver, a student who was killed in the shooting and who was buried in a Wade jersey. "I understand the power of my voice. I speak for the ones that don’t have a voice… That whole ‘just being a basketball player,’ I’m so not that," Wade said, according to the Eye.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg Working on her Fitness:
The trailer for the upcoming documentary "RBG" is out (watch it here), and it includes footage of the justice working out with her trainer, Bryant Johnson -- who is also a court clerk, an Army reservist, and the author of "The RBG Workout." Guys, she really planks. The film will be in theaters May 4.
There's Also Going to be a Rachel Dolezal Documentary:
It's called "The Rachel Divide" and it's out on Netflix April 27. In the trailer, Dolezal talks about the risk she's taking in making the doc, and her son talks about how he thinks Dolezal, who found herself in the middle of a racial identity controversy in 2015, "did not choose her words carefully."

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