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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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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.
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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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 …
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.)
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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 …
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 …
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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:
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.
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New York Times:
Trump Warning to Comey Prompts Questions on ‘Tapes’ — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday warned James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director he fired this week, against leaking anything negative about him, saying that Mr. Comey “better hope” that there are no secret tapes of their conversations …
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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.
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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 …
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Shannon Vavra / Axios:
Comey turns down Senate invite, won't testify — Senate Intel committee ranking member Mark Warner (D-VA) told MSNBC Friday that former FBI Director James Comey will not be appearing before the committee next Tuesday, despite an invitation to speak with the committee behind closed doors.
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
In a Private Dinner, Trump Demanded Loyalty. Comey Demurred.
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NBC News:
Poll: Majority of Americans Think Comey's Dismissal Was Not Appropriate
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Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Defenders or enablers?
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Comey replacements: White House confirms shortlist to head FBI
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
What Grassley and Feinstein said about Trump, the FBI, and Russia
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump's attempt to fix the Comey crisis made it worse
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP senators won't buck Trump on Comey firing
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Top Dems call for report on Sessions's role in Comey firing
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Craven Republican Enablers
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Why James Comey Had to Go — The FBI head's sense …
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New York Times:
Hackers Hit Dozens of Countries Exploiting Stolen N.S.A. Tool — LONDON — Hackers exploiting data 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 …
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GreAt / Securelist:
WannaCry ransomware used in widespread attacks all over the world
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Selena Larson / CNNMoney:
Massive ransomware attack hits 74 countries
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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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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 …
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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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Julian Sanchez / Just Security:
A Misplaced Focus on “Collusion” — Public discussion of the FBI's ongoing investigation into Russian influence on the 2016 election is dominated by the question of collusion: Were senior members of the Trump campaign knowing collaborators in the Russian government's campaign to undermine Hillary Clinton's candidacy?
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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.
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