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10:55 PM ET, May 12, 2017

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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's Comey fight spooks Capitol Hill  —  There is widespread concern among Congressional leadership about Trump's frame of mind in the wake of the Comey firing.  —  Senior Senate aide: “It has to stop ... never seen anything like this in my entire career.”
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Pierre Thomas / ABC News:
Comey furious at lack of respect White House showed, sources say  —  Former FBI Director James Comey was furious at the lack of respect the White House showed him in the way he was fired, sources have told ABC News.  —  Associates say he is simmering at some of the comments directed …
Charles J. Sykes / New York Times:
If Liberals Hate Him, Then Trump Must Be Doing Something Right  —  If there was one principle that used to unite conservatives, it was respect for the rule of law.  Not long ago, conservatives would have been horrified at wholesale violations of the norms and traditions of our political system …
Discussion: Politicaldog101.Com
Pamela Brown / CNN:
Source: Comey is ‘not worried about any tapes’  —  Washington (CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey is “not worried about any tapes” of conversations between him and President Donald Trump, a source familiar with the matter told CNN Friday, adding that “if there is a tape, there's nothing he is worried about” that could be on it.
Megan Cerullo / New York Daily News:
Roger Stone contradicts Trump, says he has spoken to the President ‘very recently’  —  The Trump administration can't keep its story straight.  —  President Trump took to Twitter early Wednesday morning to shoot down reports that his confidant, political strategist Roger Stone …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Austin Wright / Politico:
Comey declines to testify before Senate committee  —  Ousted FBI Director James Comey will not appear in a closed session before the Senate Intelligence Committee next Tuesday.  —  Comey had been invited by Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and top Democrat Mark Warner of Virginia.
AP News:
The Latest: Senate intel chair sees no evidence of collusion  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the FBI (all times local):  —  The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says he doesn't think the FBI investigation into alleged links between President …
Fox News Insider:
Judge Jeanine Pirro Interview With President Trump  —  Plus Bobby Knight joins “Watters' World.”  —  Don't miss Judge Jeanine Pirro's interview with President Donald Trump, Saturday at 9:00pm ET on Justice.  —  The president will go inside his controversial decision to fire FBI Director James Comey …
Alan Dershowitz / Washington Examiner:
Trump did not obstruct justice in firing James Comey
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
‘No one can talk sense into him’: CNN guest says even Ivanka seems to have lost control of President Trump
Discussion: AOL
Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Trump vs. the Russia Investigations
Bwittes / Lawfare:
Et Tu Rod? Why The Deputy Attorney General Must Resign
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
The real reason Trump canned Jim Comey
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Comey replacements: White House confirms shortlist to head FBI
The Daily Beast:
White House Staff React in Real-Time as Trump Tweets: ‘Jesus’ … It was 7:51 a.m. eastern time on a Friday, and the president was angrily tweetstorming again.  —  This time, it was about “Fake News,” “the Russians,” China and beef, James Comey and “tapes,” and his sometimes hapless White House staff.
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Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
‘It Took My Breath Away’: Chris Wallace Offers Stunning, Must-Watch Critique of Trump White House  —  Chris Wallace has spent the better part of the past four decades reporting on Washington for NBC, ABC, and now Fox News.  And given his lengthy tenure of Beltway reporting …
Discussion: The Week
Justin Miller / The Daily Beast:
Did Donald Trump's Dinner With FBI Boss James Comey Break the Law? … The timing of President Donald Trump's dinner with FBI Director James Comey raises the question of whether the president attempted to—or did in fact—interfere with an ongoing FBI investigation.  And that's a federal offense.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Weighs Shake-Up of Press Team
Discussion: Political Wire
GreAt / Securelist:
WannaCry ransomware used in widespread attacks all over the world  —  Earlier today, our products detected and successfully blocked a large number of ransomware attacks around the world.  In these attacks, data is encrypted with the extension “.WCRY” added to the filenames.
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Selena Larson / CNNMoney:
Massive ransomware attack hits 74 countries
Discussion: WATE-TV and RedState
New York Times:
Hackers Hit Dozens of Countries Exploiting Stolen N.S.A. Tool
Wall Street Journal:
Former Trump Adviser Paul Manafort's Bank Records Sought in Probe  —  Federal investigators looking into Russian election interference requested information; New York investigators also examining his real-estate transactions  —  The Justice Department last month requested banking records …
Discussion: The Hill
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why it's likely that Trump does have recordings of his Oval Office conversations  —  President Trump issued a not-terribly-veiled threat to former FBI director James B. Comey in a tweet Friday morning. … For a guy who has spent the past week being compared to Richard Nixon for firing a man …
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New York Times:
Trump Warning to Comey Prompts Questions on ‘Tapes’
Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Sessions issues sweeping new criminal charging policy  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and directed his federal prosecutors Thursday to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties.
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Matt Ford / The Atlantic:   Jeff Sessions Reinvigorates the Drug War
The Hill:
Obama AG rips Sessions as being ‘dumb on crime’
Discussion: ABC News and RedState
Wall Street Journal:
Financial-Crimes Monitor to Share Records in Trump-Russia Probe  —  Senate committee requested the data from Treasury's FinCEN  —  WASHINGTON—A Treasury Department unit that specializes in combating money-laundering will share financial records with an expanding Senate probe …
Discussion: Reuters
Hadas Gold / Politico:
New York Times publisher sends personal appeal to those who canceled over Bret Stephens  —  New York Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. is making a personal appeal to subscribers who canceled because the paper hired Bret Stephens, a conservative columnist who has questioned …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:
Why Is A Top Harvard Law Professor Sharing Anti-Trump Conspiracy Theories?  —  Among the prominent anti-Trumpers spreading unconfirmed information are famed constitutional scholars, Pulitzer Prize winners, and US senators.  —  Democrats and the mainstream media have spent …
Discussion: Althouse
 
 
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Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
NASA Denies Trump's Request to Send Astronauts Past the Moon on New Rocket
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Jeremy Gorner / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago cop shot in vest, woman wounded in exchange of gunfire on West Side
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
No, It Is Not ‘Treason’  —  We need to forgo irresponsible accusations of treachery.
Discussion: RedState
Graeme McMillan / Hollywood Reporter:
Hail-Hydra.com Redirects to Official White House Website
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Washington Post:
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Helena Bottemiller Evich / Politico:
Michelle Obama's nutrition message to Trump: 'Don't play with our children'
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Julian Sanchez / Just Security:
A Misplaced Focus on “Collusion”
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Judas, Tax Cuts and the Great Betrayal
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