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2:05 PM 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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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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story, Political Wire and Axios
Mike Allen / Axios:
Building walls — around Trump
Discussion: Associated Press
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
FBI officials challenge Trump's account of dinner meeting with Comey: report
Discussion: RedState, CNBC and NBC News
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Why James Comey Had to Go  —  The FBI head's sense …
Discussion: Instapundit
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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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 …
Discussion: RedState
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.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP senators won't buck Trump on Comey firing  —  Democrats who thought the sudden dismissal of FBI Director James Comey would finally jolt Republicans to back a special prosecutor to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign are going to be sorely disappointed.
Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Defenders or enablers?  —  On the roster: Defenders or enablers?  - Trump suggests there may be secret White House tapes - White House confirms shortlist to head FBI - Republicans mangling message on ObamaCare cuts - With garlic bread of despair and side salad of doom
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Comey replacements: White House confirms shortlist to head FBI
Associated Press:
Trump warns Comey: Better hope there are no ‘tapes’ of talks
Discussion: Politico, CANNONFIRE and patribotics
Adam Jentleson / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats can stop Trump's Russia scandal from becoming the new normal
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
The not-so-viral Comey firing
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Top Dems call for report on Sessions's role in Comey firing
Discussion: Political Wire and RedState
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Sessions moves to lengthen drug sentences
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Judas, Tax Cuts and the Great Betrayal  —  The denarius, ancient Rome's silver coin, was supposedly the daily wage of a manual worker.  If so, the tax cuts that the richest 1 percent of Americans will receive if the Affordable Care Act is repealed — tax cuts that are, obviously …
Discussion: Fox News Insider
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Charles J. Sykes / New York Times:
If Liberals Hate Him, Then Trump Must Be Doing Something Right
Timothy Egan / New York Times:   Who Will Save the Republic?
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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Al Weaver / Washington Examiner:
Senators open to idea of FBI Director Merrick Garland
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
Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
DON'T CALL ME CAITLYN: BABY NAME PLUNGES IN POPULARITY  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't call me Caitlyn.  —  A year after Caitlyn Jenner announced her new name and gender, the popularity of the name Caitlyn plummeted more than any other baby name, according to Social Security's annual list of the most popular baby names.
Discussion: Mediaite and Associated Press
PBS NewsHour:
https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/ newshour/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/ Theseindustries.mp3  —  JUDY WOODRUFF: We turn now to an overlooked story: why some men are not pursuing certain types of jobs that are mainly held by women.  —  Our economics correspondent, Paul Solman, has the story.
 
 
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Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
America's ‘emotional obsession’ with Russia ‘will end soon,’ Kremlin says
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