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3:45 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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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 …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump's Comey firing sets off new round of leaks  —  President Trump is besieged by internal leaks as he tries to weather the fallout from his firing of FBI director James Comey.  —  Media reports about the run-up to Trump's decision paint him as isolated and consumed by anger and paranoia …
Bwittes / Lawfare:
Et Tu Rod?  Why The Deputy Attorney General Must Resign  —  President Trump speaks with Lester Holt on Comey's firing / NBC News  —  “He made—he made a recommendation,” Donald Trump said yesterday of his Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein in an interview with NBC News.
NBC News:
Poll: Majority of Americans Think Comey's Dismissal Was Not Appropriate  —  A majority of Americans — 54 percent — think that President Donald Trump's abrupt dismissal of FBI Director James Comey was not appropriate, while 46 percent think that Comey was fired due to the Russia investigation, according to results from a new NBC News|
Discussion: Vox, Mediaite, Politicus USA and CNBC
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump's attempt to fix the Comey crisis made it worse
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Judas, Tax Cuts and the Great Betrayal
Timothy Egan / New York Times:   Who Will Save the Republic?
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Top Dems call for report on Sessions's role in Comey firing
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and RedState
Associated Press:
Trump warns Comey: Better hope there are no ‘tapes’ of talks
Discussion: Politico, CANNONFIRE and patribotics
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 …
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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.
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.
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.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Warns Comey and Says He May Cancel Press Briefings  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday warned James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director he fired this week, if Mr. Comey leaks anything negative about the president and warned the news media that he may cancel all future White House briefings.
Paul Sperry / New York Post:
The real reason Trump canned Jim Comey  —  MORE FROM: … The straw that broke the camel's back for now-ousted FBI Director James Comey was the investigation he apparently wasn't doing.  —  President Trump's much-reported frustration with Comey almost certainly arose from the G-man's failure …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Building walls — around Trump
Discussion: Associated Press
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Why James Comey Had to Go  —  The FBI head's sense …
Discussion: Instapundit
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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The Hill:
Obama AG rips Sessions as being ‘dumb on crime’
Discussion: RedState
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Sessions moves to lengthen drug sentences
David Weigel / Washington Post:
The ‘Merrick Garland for FBI’ scheme shows why liberals lose  —  We live in a golden age of political stupidity, but I'm not being hyperbolic when I say this: The idea of pulling Judge Merrick Garland off the D.C. Circuit federal appeals court and into the FBI is one of the silliest ideas I've seen anyone in Washington fall for.
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The Hill:
Trump lawyers claim his tax returns show no income from Russia with few exceptions  —  President Trump's lawyers on Friday said that a review of his last ten years of tax returns do not reveal “any income of any type from Russian sources” with some exceptions, but refused to release copies of his tax returns to verify such conclusions.
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CNBC:
Trump lawyers push back against Russia ties in letter
New York Times:
At Least 12 Nations Hit by N.S.A. Hacking Tool  —  LONDON — Hackers using a tool stolen from the United States government conducted extensive cyberattacks on Friday that hit dozens of countries around the world, severely disrupting Britain's public health system and wreaking havoc on computers elsewhere, including Russia.
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James Fallows / The Atlantic:
Five Reasons the Comey Affair Is Worse Than Watergate  —  The tangled affair now known as Watergate began 45 years ago, before most of today's U.S. population had even been born.  (The median age of Americans is about 38, so most people in the country were born in 1979 or thereafter.)
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Aetna CEO in private meeting: “Single-payer, I think we should have that debate”  —  A top insurance executive signals openness to government-financed health care.  —  The chief executive of one of the country's largest health insurance companies says he is open to having a single-payer debate.
Travis Waldron / HuffPost:
ESPN Reporters Say They're Not Going To ‘Stick To Sports’  —  ESPN is emphasizing its commitment to journalism by rebooting two popular shows.  Covering political and social issues will be a part of those efforts.  —  After another round of layoffs hit top talent at ESPN late last month …
 
 
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Chris Baraniuk / BBC:
Ransomware infections reported worldwide
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Senate GOP making tax credits look more like ... Obamacare
Discussion: Daily Kos
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
America's ‘emotional obsession’ with Russia ‘will end soon,’ Kremlin says
Discussion: IJR and Mediaite
PBS NewsHour:
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Adam Jentleson / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats can stop Trump's Russia scandal from becoming the new normal
Discussion: Daily Kos
Nina Martin / NPR:
Focus On Infants During Childbirth Leaves U.S. Moms In Danger
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 Earlier Items: 
Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
DON'T CALL ME CAITLYN: BABY NAME PLUNGES IN POPULARITY
Discussion: Mediaite and Associated Press
Tracy Withers / Bloomberg:
New Zealand Population Surges Most Since World Turmoil of 1974
Discussion: Daily Mail
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
HHS Secretary Dr. Tom Price On The Senate Negoitations Ahead
Xan Brooks / The Guardian:
Cary Grant: how 100 acid trips in Tinseltown ‘changed my life’
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Republicans misstate, again and again on TV and at town halls, what's in their health-care bill
Discussion: Raw Story and Consumerist
 

 
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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

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV
 
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