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7:40 AM ET, May 12, 2017

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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.
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump's attempt to fix the Comey crisis made it worse  —  President Donald Trump spent many of the first 48 hours after he fired his FBI director grumbling to friends and associates about his lousy media coverage — and about the shortcomings of his senior aides.
NBC News:
My Dinner With Comey: Current and Former FBI Officials Dispute Trump Account of Meeting With FBI Director  —  Despite what President Donald Trump said earlier in the day, James Comey did not seek a dinner with the president to retain his job, one current and one former FBI official close to Comey told NBC News Thursday evening.
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.
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
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump hates his press shop but loves Sanders  —  President Trump has found someone other than himself to blame for the bungled firing of James Comey: his press shop.  —  Trump believes the communications team let him down badly on Tuesday evening in the minutes and hours after his decision …
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Mike Allen / Axios:
Building walls — around Trump  —  White House officials talk freely about putting “fences” around President Trump and his decision-making to protect him from his self-indulgent instincts.  —  The wall strategy has worked pretty well so far on national security.
Jim Acosta / CNN:
White House furious after being trolled with Russia Oval Office photos
WJLA-TV:
Deputy AG Rosenstein: 'I'm not quitting,' didn't threaten to quit over Comey firing
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Trump said he was thinking of Russia controversy when he decided to fire Comey
NBC Nightly News:
Watch Lester Holt's Extended Interview With President Trump
Discussion: Shareblue and Business Insider
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump just decimated the White House's entire James Comey narrative
Madeline Conway / Politico:
White House: It wasn't inappropriate for Trump to ask Comey about investigation
Discussion: Politicaldog101.Com
Associated Press:
Contradicting previous White House explanations, President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Politico
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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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
‘You have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out.’ Trump targets the Navy's new aircraft catapult
Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic:   Trump Wants ‘Goddamned Steam,’ Not Digital Catapults on Aircraft Carriers
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Donald Trump has no idea what health insurance costs
Laura Jarrett / CNN:
AG Sessions paves way for stricter sentencing in criminal cases  — Sessions formally rescinded prior guidance aimed at reducing the number of harsh mandatory minimum sentences  — Under Sessions' memo, prosecutors must charge and pursue the “most serious, readily provable offense”
Discussion: Political Wire
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Sessions moves to lengthen drug sentences  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions is reversing one of the central elements of the Obama administration's criminal justice reform agenda: a Justice Department policy that led to prosecutors in drug cases often filing charges in a way that avoided …
Discussion: Axios
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
The Feds have ‘Trump tapes’ akin to Nixon's ‘Watergate tapes’  —  With President Trump acting increasingly like former President Nixon during the Watergate scandal coverup, there is one similarity between the two scandals that is not receiving the media attention it deserves.
Scott Wartman / Cincinnati.com:
9 victims alleged in sex charges against Tim Nolan  —  The Enquirer/Cara Owsley The Enquirer/Cara Owsley  —  A human trafficking and rape case against a former Northern Kentucky judge grew more bizarre at a tense arraignment and bond hearing Wednesday in Kenton County.  —  It started normally.
Discussion: Raw Story
Dan Snierson / EW.com:
Kellyanne Conway mocked in Family Guy Emmy campaign  —  Family Guy is campaigning for the Emmys in its traditional manner: by going on the offensive.  —  In a new for-your-consideration mailer that was sent to Emmy voters this week, Peter Griffin is doing his best impression of White House counselor …
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Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Conway links Anderson Cooper's eye roll to sexism
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.
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Françoise Mouly / New Yorker:
Barry Blitt's “Ejected”  —  “It's probably a bit of a leap,” Barry Blitt says, about his cover of the May 22, 2017, issue.  “James Comey is six feet eight—he probably would have been happy to give up his seat in a cramped cabin.”  —  Françoise Mouly has been the art editor at The New Yorker since 1993.
 
 
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Mark Thiessen / Associated Press:
TILLERSON SAYS US WON'T BE RUSHED ON CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES
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Jonathan S. Tobin / National Review:
Against a Special Prosecutor  —  Obama was right to resist …
Discussion: The Fiscal Times, US News and Hot Air
Joseph Lawler / Washington Examiner:
Fewest workers getting unemployment benefits in 28 years
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:
China, US reach agreement on beef, poultry and natural gas
Discussion: Axios
Karoun Demirjian / Washington Post:
Rosenstein role in Comey firing raises more questions than answers
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Martin Longman / Washington Monthly:
Trump Names Racist to Co-Chair Voter Fraud Commission
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Official: We ‘Let the Biggest Perpetrator of Fake News into the Oval Office’
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