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12:30 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.
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.
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.”
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Comey was taken aback by Trump request for loyalty pledge  —  Washington (CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey was “taken aback” by President Donald Trump's request for a personal assurance or pledge of loyalty at a dinner shortly after he took office, a source close to Comey told CNN Friday.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump hates his press shop but loves Sanders
Discussion: Politico and The Week
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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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Top Dems call for report on Sessions's role in Comey firing  —  The top Democrats on two powerful House committees are calling for a report on possible disciplinary actions against Attorney General Jeff Sessions  —  for his role in FBI Director James Comey's firing.
Discussion: Political Wire and RedState
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Sessions moves to lengthen drug sentences
Laura Jarrett / CNN:
AG Sessions paves way for stricter sentencing in criminal cases
Discussion: Political Wire
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Attorney General Sessions Orders Tougher Drug Crime Prosecutions
Discussion: National Review
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.
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Associated Press:
Trump to Comey: Better hope there are no ‘tapes’ of talks  —  President Donald Trump, in an apparent warning to his fired FBI director, said Friday that James Comey had better hope there are no “tapes” of their conversations.  Trump's tweet came the morning after he asserted Comey had told …
Discussion: Politico, patribotics and CANNONFIRE
William Yeomans / The Hill:
Is Trump guilty of obstruction of justice? That depends ...
Mike Allen / Axios:
Building walls — around Trump
Discussion: Politico
HuffPost:
Donald Trump Has Compromised Every Major Investigation Into Alleged Russian Interference
Discussion: Daily Kos
CBS News:
Source: There is “whole lot of interfering” in Russia investigation
Discussion: Politicus USA
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Why James Comey Had to Go  —  The FBI head's sense of perfect virtue led him to ignore his own enormous conflicts.
Discussion: Instapundit
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CNN:   Kamala Harris calls for Sessions to resign
Hugh Hewitt / The Hugh Hewitt Show:
HHS Secretary Dr. Tom Price On The Senate Negoitations Ahead  —  HHS Secretary Dr. Tom Price joined me this morning to discuss the ongoing collapse of Obamacare and the negotiations with and within the Senate:  —  Audio:  —  05-12hhs-price  —  Transcript:
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
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.
Eric Rasmusen / RealClearDefense:
Conventional Artillery and Nuclear Missiles in North Korea  —  A Game Theory Approach to Credible Threats  —  There has been much discussion of what a Second Korean War might look like.  I think it is misguided.  I am just a game theorist with a bit of Japan expertise …
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Gerry Mullany / New York Times:
Chinese Rappers Take Aim at American Antimissile System in South Korea
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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.
Discussion: Axios and ACASignups.net
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Republicans misstate, again and again on TV and at town halls, what's in their health-care bill  —  The American Health Care Act that narrowly passed out of the House earlier this month cuts $880 billion from Medicaid — but that won't affect anyone's coverage.
Discussion: Raw Story and Consumerist
Chris Cioffi / The Charlotte Observer:
High school takes back yearbooks with ‘Build that wall,’ other inappropriate quotes  —  ROCKINGHAM, N.C.  —  All of the yearbooks that had been distributed at the Richmond Early College High School near Rockingham have been taken back by the school after some senior quotes were deemed controversial, the school system says.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Tracy Withers / Bloomberg:
New Zealand Population Surges Most Since World Turmoil of 1974  —  Record immigration drives 2.1% jump in year through March  —  ‘New Zealand is an island of calm in troubled waters’: Eaqub  —  The last time New Zealand's population grew this much, the world was reeling from an oil crisis …
Discussion: Daily Mail
 
 
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Stef W. Kight / Axios:
The not-so-viral Comey firing
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Peter Holley / Washington Post:
One GOP lawmaker's plan to save money: Turning non-English-speaking kids over to ICE
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Scott Wartman / Cincinnati.com:
9 victims alleged in sex charges against Tim Nolan
Discussion: Raw Story
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
The Feds have ‘Trump tapes’ akin to Nixon's ‘Watergate tapes’