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CNN exclusive: Grand jury subpoenas issued in FBI's Russia investigation — Washington (CNN)Federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas to associates of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn seeking business records, as part of the ongoing probe of Russian meddling in last year's election …
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Behind Comey's firing: An enraged Trump, fuming about Russia — President Donald Trump weighed firing his FBI director for more than a week. When he finally pulled the trigger Tuesday afternoon, he didn't call James Comey. He sent his longtime private security guard to deliver …
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F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Fired by Trump — WASHINGTON — President Trump has dismissed the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, on the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, said Tuesday. — “While I greatly appreciate you informing me …
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Updates and Reactions to F.B.I. Director Comey's Firing — President Trump has fired James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, the White House spokesman Sean Spicer said on Tuesday. — Mr. Comey was delivering a speech in Los Angeles when he learned he had been fired.


A Former Top Official Cited In The DOJ's Comey Memo Calls Firing A “Sham” — Donald Ayer, who served as the deputy attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, told BuzzFeed News that Comey's handling of the Clinton email investigation was being used to justify his firing “for a very different reason.”


The Nightmare Scenario: Trump Fires Comey, the One Man Who Would Stand Up to Him — FBI Director James Comey testifies before the House Oversight Committee regarding the Clinton email investigation / CSPAN — Make no mistake: The firing of James Comey as FBI director is a stunning event.

STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON DISMISSAL OF FBI DIRECTOR JAMES COMEY — Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released the following statement today on the dismissal of FBI Director James Comey: — “While the President has the legal authority to remove the Director of the FBI …
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President Donald Trump Fires FBI Director James Comey, and Even White House Aides Are Stunned — President Donald Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey. — The stunning and sudden removal comes after Comey told Congress in March that the FBI was engaged in an ongoing investigation …
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Is This a Constitutional Crisis? — As the news broke late this afternoon, the politicos of Washington stared into their smartphones, stunned, struggling with what to make of it. TV networks cut into their regularly scheduled programming. Chyrons promising “breaking news” actually delivered it …
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Into the Abyss: Trump Fires Comey — Let me add a few more thoughts on the events of the evening. — There is a glorious swirl of irony, disingenuousness and bad faith in the vortex of opinions about James Comey and the notional rationale for firing him.
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FBI agents in tears as news of Comey's firing spread — The news of FBI director James Comey's firing struck like a thunderclap at field offices around the country, where agents heard first from TV or the internet that their boss had been dismissed by President Donald J. Trump.
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Donald Trump's Firing of James Comey
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Key to Keeping Trump-Russia Inquiry Alive: 3 Republicans
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GOP baffled by timing; WH braces for independent probe
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Giuliani Says He's Not A Candidate for FBI Director
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Before James Comey's Dismissal, a Growing Frustration at White House
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James Comey firing was inevitable
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Trump to sit down with Russian foreign minister, one day after firing Comey
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The Political Isolation of Jim Comey
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Flashback: Trump praised Comey for Clinton actions in October
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The Comey debacle only magnifies the Russia mystery
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There's no reason to believe Donald Trump's rationale for firing James Comey
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In Trump's Firing of James Comey, Echoes of Watergate
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Schumer: No confidence in Comey
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Schumer to Trump: Comey firing a ‘big mistake’
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Comey's Firing Is a Crisis of American Rule of Law
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Comey firing: Reaction from members of Congress on FBI director's dismissal
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Trump Fires James Comey as FBI Chief
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Trump Hires Law Firm to Fight Suggestions of Russia Business Ties — President Donald Trump has hired a Washington law firm to send a letter to a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee saying he has no connections to Russia, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday.
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First on CNN: Senate Russia investigators ask Treasury for Trump team financial information
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The Daily Spicer: Let's not ‘smear a good man.’ Let's smear a good woman!
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Sen. Hatch: ‘The public wants every dime they can be given’ — Washington (CNN)Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch warned Tuesday that efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in the Senate might be complicated because once the public “is on the dole, they'll take every dime they can.”
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The Senate really, really doesn't want to repeat the House's health care mistakes
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Trump team marks 6-month election anniversary by vowing to air video of Clinton campaign's concession call — WASHINGTON — President Trump's upset November victory never seems to be far from the White House's mind. — On Tuesday, Dan Scavino, the White House director of social media …
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Former ‘Apprentice’ star has a white hot emotional meltdown while defending GOP's all-male healthcare group — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Former “Apprentice” contestant Erin Elmore on Tuesday veered completely off-topic during a discussion on the all-male Senate healthcare group …


Comey Dismissal Upends Probes of Trump Campaign Ties to Russia — President Donald Trump's decision to fire the head of the FBI in the midst of the bureau's probe into possible links between his presidential campaign and Russia added impetus to calls for a special counsel to handle the case.