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Days Before He Was Fired, Comey Asked for Money for Russia Investigation — WASHINGTON — Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department for a significant increase in money and personnel for the bureau's investigation into Russia's interference …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
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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Jake Tapper / CNN:
Source close to Comey says there were 2 reasons the FBI director was fired — Washington (CNN)There are two reasons why President Donald Trump fired James Comey, according to a source close to the now-former FBI director: — Comey never provided the President with any assurance of personal loyalty.
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
After Trump fired Comey, White House staff scrambled to explain why — White House press secretary Sean Spicer wrapped up his brief interview with Fox Business from the White House grounds late Tuesday night and then disappeared into the shadows, huddling with his staff behind a tall hedge.
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John Hayward / Breitbart:
Gorka: Trump Fired FBI Director to Make a Statement After Comey's Latest Testimony — On Wednesday's Breitbart News Daily, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to President Trump, said the firing of FBI Director James Comey was an example of how “incredibly decisive” the president is.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
By firing James Comey, Trump has put impeachment on the table — A whiff of obstruction of justice is in the air. — The old saw that the cover-up is worse than the crime often obscures more than it reveals. But in the case of President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey, it carries an important element of truth.
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Firing FBI director Comey is already backfiring on Trump. It's only going to get worse. — THE BIG IDEA: After the president fired James Comey, the cloud hanging over the White House just got bigger and darker. — Donald Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants …
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Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Exclusive: Oval Office meeting led to fire Comey recommendation — WASHINGTON — Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his new deputy, Rod Rosenstein, arrived at the Oval Office Monday with a message for President Donald Trump: His embattled FBI Director James Comey needed to be fired.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside the WH scramble to defend Trump on Comey — Sources at the White House described scenes of confusion in the hours following news of Trump firing Comey. Internally, at least at a fairly senior level, people were scrambling to figure out what happened.
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New York Times:
‘Enough Was Enough’: How Festering Anger at Comey Ended in His Firing — WASHINGTON — The countdown to President Trump's dismissal of James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, began last weekend, which the president spent stewing over Mr. Comey's testimony to Congress last week in which he provided …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
In the wake of Trump's brazen firing of Comey, it's time to go nuclear. Here's how. — THE MORNING PLUM: — President Trump's Tuesday Night Massacre — his firing of FBI director James Comey — was such a brazen power play in the context of the FBI's ongoing Russia probe that even some Republicans are troubled by it.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
To fire Comey, Trump team waited for Rosenstein … Here's what I have been able to glean so far about the decision to fire FBI Director James Comey: — During the transition, there were members of the Trump team involved with justice and law enforcement issues who felt Comey should be fired.
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Keven Ann Willey / Dallas Morning News:
Pete Sessions: Comey should have been removed ‘in a more gracious way’
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Franken rips Sessions for encouraging Comey firing
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
John McCain on Comey firing: ‘There will be more shoes to drop’
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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Dershowitz: Comey Firing ‘Appropriate,’ No Special Prosecutor
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Sessions was told to find reasons to fire Comey: reports
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Jeff Stein / Vox:
Democrats' nuclear option over Comey's firing: shut down the Senate
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CNN:
CNN exclusive: Grand jury subpoenas issued in FBI's Russia investigation
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Donald Trump Is Lying Again, Now About James Comey
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David Weigel / Washington Post:
From Fox News to the Senate floor, Republicans close ranks behind Trump firing Comey
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
No, Firing Comey Won't Prove Trump's Undoing
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
More very bad news for Trump: His poll numbers just hit a bunch of new lows
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Mike Allen / Axios:
GOP baffled by timing; WH braces for independent probe
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Wall Street Journal:
Comey's Deserved Dismissal
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Key moments from first White House briefing after Comey's firing
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Elizabeth Drew / Politico:
OK, NOW Is It Watergate? — President Donald Trump's astonishing …
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Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Trump surrogates are trying to explain Comey's firing. It's not going well.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
11 possible contenders to replace Comey
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Clive Irving / The Daily Beast:
U.S. to Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights From Europe … The Department of Homeland Security will ban laptops in the cabins of all flights from Europe to the United States, European security officials told The Daily Beast. The announcement is expected Thursday.
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Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
West Virginia journalist arrested after asking HHS Secretary Tom Price a question — As Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price walked through a hallway Tuesday in the West Virginia state capitol, veteran reporter Dan Heyman followed alongside him, holding up his phone to Price while attempting to ask him a question.
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Andrew Joseph / STAT:
Tom Price commends West Virginia officers who arrested journalist asking questions — ONCORD, N.H. — Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price on Wednesday commended police in West Virginia for “doing what they thought was appropriate” in arresting a journalist who shouted questions at him …
Doug Stanglin / USA Today:
W. Va. reporter arrested for ‘yelling questions’ at HHS secretary
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GQ:
Dwayne Johnson for President! — No one gets up earlier than Dwayne Johnson. Or goes to bed later. Or is more awake during the hours in between. No one in Hollywood is more buff, more driven, or gets paid better. The man has so much charisma and ambition he can do anything.
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Jessica Bakeman / Politico:
Graduating seniors boo Betsy DeVos at commencement in Florida — DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Hundreds of graduating seniors of a historically black university here booed and turned their backs on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos as she struggled to deliver their commencement address over the raucous crowd.
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Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Students boo Betsy DeVos as commencement speaker at historically black university
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CNN:
Passengers get into fistfight aboard Southwest flight — Los Angeles (CNN)Two passengers got into a fight on a Southwest flight shortly after the plane landed in Burbank, California. — Southwest flight 2530 had traveled from Dallas and was on a short layover at Hollywood Burbank Airport before continuing on to Oakland.
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Tara Bahrampour / Washington Post:
U.S. Census director resigns amid turmoil over funding of 2020 count — The director of the U.S. Census Bureau is resigning, leaving the agency leaderless at a time when it faces a crisis over funding for the 2020 decennial count of the U.S. population and beyond.
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