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9:00 PM ET, May 11, 2017

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Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Trump Interview With Lester Holt: President Asked Comey If He Was Under Investigation  —  President Donald Trump, in an exclusive interview Thursday with NBC News' Lester Holt, called ousted FBI chief James Comey a “showboat” and revealed he asked Comey whether he was under investigation for alleged ties to Russia.
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CNN:
White House: Removing Comey will help bring Russia investigation to end  —  (CNN)The White House said Thursday that removing FBI Director James Comey from his post may hasten the agency's investigation into Russian meddling.  —  “We want this to come to its conclusion …
Discussion: TheBlaze
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
In a Private Dinner, Trump Demanded Loyalty.  Comey Demurred.  —  WASHINGTON — Only seven days after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as president, James B. Comey has told associates, the F.B.I. director was summoned to the White House for a one-on-one dinner with the new commander in chief.
WJLA-TV:
Deputy AG Rosenstein: 'I'm not quitting,' didn't threaten to quit over Comey firing  —  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Thursday, May 11, 2017 that he's not quitting, nor did he threaten to quit over his role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey.  (Sinclair Broadcast Group)  —  AA
Jim Acosta / CNN:
White House furious after being trolled with Russia Oval Office photos  —  Washington (CNN)The White House did not anticipate that the Russian government would allow its state news agency to post photographs of an Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov …
Wall Street Journal:
Rosenstein Pressed White House to Correct the Record on Comey Firing  —  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein pressed White House counsel Don McGahn to correct what he felt was an inaccurate White House depiction of the events surrounding FBI Director James Comey's firing.
Ali Watkins / Politico:
Rosenstein meets with Senate Intel leaders after Comey firing  —  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was seen arriving at the Senate Intelligence Committee's secure office spaces Thursday afternoon.  Sources told POLITICO Rosenstein had requested to meet with the Intelligence Committee leaders …
Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
White House: “Oh My God, For The Billionth Time” Spicer Is Not Being Fired  —  Sources tell BuzzFeed News that press secretary Sean Spicer has drawn Trump's ire, and is sounding out aides and friends about replacing him.  The White House pushed back hard on reports that Spicer's job is in danger.
Discussion: RedState
CBS News:
Source: There is “whole lot of interfering” in Russia investigation  —  Although President Trump has now stated and written that fired FBI Director James Comey told him on three separate occasions that he was not the subject of an investigation, sources cast doubt on that claim.
Discussion: HuffPost and Politicus USA
NBC Nightly News:
Watch Lester Holt's Extended Interview With President Trump
Discussion: Vox and Shareblue
Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
The Comey Firing Proves We Need Two Special Counsels, Not One
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
For Trump Supporters, the Real Outrage Is the Left's Uproar Over Comey
Discussion: National Review
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
In interview, Trump contradicts Pence on Comey
Brian Beutler / New Republic:   Our Rendezvous With Authoritarianism Has Arrived
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Sources: Comey sought to expand Trump-Russia probe of former campaign officials
Discussion: Washington Post
TIME.com:
From where the 45th President works, eats and sleeps, everything is going just great.  Now if only everyone else would see it that way.  A TIME exclusive  —  PHOTOGRAPHS BY BENJAMIN RASMUSSEN FOR TIME  —  In a few minutes, President Donald Trump will release a new set of tweets …
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Official: We ‘Let the Biggest Perpetrator of Fake News into the Oval Office’ … Senior members of the Trump administration are livid that the White House allowed the Russian government to steer the narrative of the president's Wednesday meeting with top Russian diplomats …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Economist:
What is Trumponomics and how does it differ from standard Republican economics?  —  Well it's an interesting question.  I don't think it's ever been asked quite that way.  But it really has to do with self-respect as a nation.  It has to do with trade deals that have to be fair, and somewhat reciprocal, if not fully reciprocal.
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Trump wants ‘goddamned steam’ catapults on new aircraft carriers  —  President Trump said he has told the Navy to return to decades-old steam-powered catapult technology to launch aircraft from the new Gerald Ford-class aircraft carriers, rather than use a new digital launch system.
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Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:
Trump Wants ‘Goddamned Steam,’ Not Digital Catapults on Aircraft Carriers  —  Navy officials were “blindsided” on Thursday, a spokesman told me, by President Donald Trump's suggestion that he has convinced the Navy to abandon a long-planned digital launching system in favor of steam on its newest aircraft carrier.
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
‘You have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out.’ Trump targets the Navy's new aircraft catapult
Discussion: New York Magazine
Martin Longman / Washington Monthly:
Trump Names Racist to Co-Chair Voter Fraud Commission  —  On paper, Kris Kobach is the kind of guy you'd like to marry your daughter.  An Eagle Scout who graduated summa cum laude and first in his department at Harvard, went on to get M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from Oxford and a law degree from Yale …
Discussion: New York Times and Hullabaloo
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump creates voter-fraud panel that critics label a ‘sham’
Discussion: ABC News and Talking Points Memo
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
President Trump launches commission on ‘election integrity’
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Conway links Anderson Cooper's eye roll to sexism … White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Thursday appeared to accuse CNN's Anderson Cooper of sexism for rolling his eyes during an on-air interview with her.  —  “I face sexism a lot of times when I show up for interviews like that,” Conway said on “Fox & Friends.”
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Dan Snierson / EW.com:   Kellyanne Conway mocked in Family Guy Emmy campaign
Robert Feder:
So long, Steve: Not everyone's sorry to see Harvey leave town  —  Thursday marks the final day of production for “The Steve Harvey Show” after five years in Chicago.  After that, it's packing up and moving to Los Angeles, where the syndicated talk show will morph into a new daytime series simply called “Steve.”
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capitalgazette.com:
FBI raids office of Republican campaign consultant in Annapolis  —  The Baltimore Sun  —  The FBI raided the office of a Republican campaign consultant in Annapolis on Thursday, part of an investigation the firm's president said was tied to the 2013 Virginia governor's race.
Discussion: Raw Story, New York Magazine and IJR
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Cody Derespina / Fox News:
Mike Lee: Merrick Garland for FBI head
Fox News:
Ex-Rep. Corrine Brown guilty on fraud, tax evasion charges
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
George Brown / WREG-TV:
Police: Woman followed then threatened Congressman David Kustoff
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-breaking Computer Project to Entire Internet
Discussion: Engadget
Sara A. Carter / Circa:
WATCH |  An update on Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's conversation with Hillary Clinton …
Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
Kushner family drops out of China presentation
Derick Garcia / RGVPROUD:
Trump Supporter Harassing Muslim Family In Viral Video Cries In Mug Shot
Discussion: fox5sandiego.com, The Root and IJR
 Earlier Items: 
patribotics:
EXCLUSIVE: Comey Day: ‘First Trump Russia Arrests Possible’ Thursday
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
How IJR plans to burst the filter bubble with a dose of The Resistance
Susan Dominus / New York Times:
Is an Open Marriage a Happier Marriage?
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Experts on authoritarianism are absolutely terrified by the Comey firing
Discussion: Shareblue
Ken Silverstein / Observer:
The John Oliver Property Tax Scam: HBO Comedian Secretly Buys Manhattan Mansion
Discussion: Hot Air and Breitbart
 

 
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Bloomberg:
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks
 
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