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10:15 PM ET, June 9, 2017

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CNN:
Trump: I'm willing to testify under oath about Comey claims  —  Washington (CNN)A defiant President Donald Trump said Friday he was willing to testify under oath about his conversations with James Comey, further fueling the swirling controversy ignited by the fired FBI director's bombshell testimony before the Senate on Thursday.
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Did Trump just say he'd testify under oath about Comey?  —  Let's break down this confusing exchange at a White House press conference.  —  At a press conference Friday, President Donald Trump continued to accuse fired FBI Director James Comey of lying about his conversations with Trump …
Discussion: ABC News and YouTube
CNN:
Trump's lawyer to file complaint against Comey over memos  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's outside attorney plans to file a complaint against former FBI Director James Comey with the Justice Department Inspector General and the Senate judiciary committee, two sources with knowledge of the situation told CNN.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
There's no indication Comey violated the law.  Trump may be about to.  —  President Trump's declaration that the Thursday testimony of former FBI director James B. Comey was a “total and complete vindication” despite “so many false statements and lies” was the sort of brashly triumphant …
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Ryan denies GOP would try to impeach Dem accused of same actions as Trump  —  (R-Wis.) insisted on Thursday that Republicans wouldn't be calling for the impeachment of a Democratic president accused of the same actions as President Trump.  —  As fired FBI Director James Comey was before a Senate committee …
Bre Payton / The Federalist:
Did James Comey's Document Leaks Violate The FBI Employment Agreement?  —  During his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, former FBI director James Comey revealed that he was the source of leaked memos about his conversations with Donald Trump surrounding the Russia investigation.
Discussion: ABC News and TheBlaze
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House Intelligence Committee leaders ask White House for any Comey tapes
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate Dems: Investigate any obstruction of justice on Comey, Russia
Discussion: IJR and twitchy.com
Robert Barnes / LawNewz:
Comey was Before Congress to Indict Trump. Instead, He Might Have Indicted Himself.
The Hill:
Trump refuses to say whether White House tapes exist
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN Drops Reza Aslan Following Anti-Trump Tweets  —  CNN no longer believes in “Believer,” the non-fiction series it launched earlier this year with Reza Aslan, the Iranian-American author and religious scholar.  —  “CNN has decided to not move forward with production on the acquired series 'Believer …
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Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
CNN Drops Reza Aslan Series After Vulgar Anti-Trump Tweets
Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
Trump Discovers Article 5 After Disastrous NATO Visit  —  Trump's public performance in Brussels was a disaster.  Behind closed doors, it was even worse.  —  At long last, U.S. President Donald Trump endorsed NATO's bedrock collective defense clause, Article 5, in a press conference Friday.
New York Times:
Trump Team's Shifts Jolt Some Allies and Soothe Others  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump scrambled American diplomacy on two fronts on Friday, delivering a stinging rebuke of Qatar at the very moment his secretary of state was trying to mend fences in the Persian Gulf, while at the same …
Discussion: The Atlantic and NPR
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Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Trump Can Accept Payments From Foreign Governments, U.S. Argues  —  Government says emoluments clause doesn't bar Trump businesses  —  Watchdog group sued president over payments to his companies  —  Donald Trump isn't violating a U.S. Constitution provision that bars federal officials …
Discussion: The Hill, Politico and Daily Kos
John Harwood / CNBC:
The GOP still champions Trump, but that might not last  —  “I travel this state every day,” a Republican senator declared recently, “and I haven't yet had anybody come up to me and say they're worried about Russia messing with our elections.”  —  Comments like that, from Sen. Luther Strange of Alabama …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Gillibrand rips Trump: ‘Has he kept his promises?  No. F— no’  —  (D-N.Y.) slammed President Trump with colorful language Friday, saying he has not kept his promises.  —  “Has he kept his promises?  No. F— no,” she said while addressing the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City.
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Adam Shaw / Breitbart:   Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: “If We Are Not Helping People, We Should Go the F*ck Home”
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Feds Succeed In Delaying Lawsuit Where Key Travel Ban Memo Is At Issue  —  A federal judge in Michigan put a lawsuit challenging the travel ban on hold on Friday.  The plaintiffs in the case are seeking the “Giuliani memo” — the memo Rudolph Giuliani has said he and others wrote during …
John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump Treasury nominee misrepresented Dartmouth degree  —  President Trump's nominee to run a U.S. regulator office has been misrepresenting his college degree, Bloomberg News reported Friday.  —  Joseph Otting, Trump's pick to run the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency …
Discussion: NECN, Raw Story and CNBC
Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
AJC poll: Ossoff opens lead over Handel in Georgia's 6th  —  An Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released Friday shows Democrat Jon Ossoff has a 7-point edge over Republican Karen Handel in the nationally watched race to represent Georgia's 6th Congressional District.
Chris Villani / Boston Herald:
Jeb Bush backs president, but says ‘who cares what I think?’  —  Former Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush said he doesn't think President Trump obstructed justice when he fired former FBI director James B. Comey.  —  When Bush, who spoke yesterday to a standing-room …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
New York Attorney General Looking Into Eric Trump Foundation  —  The New York attorney general, which has been investigating the Donald J. Trump Foundation for months, is now looking into the Eric Trump Foundation, after a report in Forbes exposed practices that seem to violate state laws.
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump targets illegal immigrants who were given reprieves from deportation by Obama  —  In September 2014, Gilberto Velasquez, a 38-year-old house painter from El Salvador, received life-changing news: The U.S. government had decided to shelve its deportation action against him.
Discussion: Hit & Run, Daily Kos and IJR
Stephen Miller / Heat Street:
My Adventures at the Segregated ‘Wonder Woman’ Screening  —  I didn't know what to expect showing up to an advertised all women's screening of Wonder Woman where radical outrage mongers on Twitter were offering bounties to either mace me in the face or dump soda on my head.
Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller Had Been On White House Shortlist To Run FBI  —  The Trump White House had been considering Robert Mueller as a top candidate to lead the FBI before the deputy U.S. attorney general changed course and tapped Mueller to serve as special counsel investigating Russian interference …
Bloomberg:
Mnuchin Says U.S. Can Cope If Debt Ceiling Not Raised by August  —  Government has ‘backup plans’ if limit not lifted in time  —  Critical not to disrupt financial markets, Treasury chief says  —  The U.S. government has “backup plans” for funding itself if Congress doesn't raise …
Niv Elis / The Hill:
Trump faces backlash over $3M Holocaust Museum cuts  —  A bipartisan group of 64 members of Congress is demanding a reversal on $3 million in funding cuts to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum proposed in President Trump's budget.  —  “In our view, the mission of the museum has never been more important …
Discussion: New York Post and Raw Story
Bernie Woodall / Reuters:
Florida governor signs bolstered ‘stand your ground’ law  —  Florida Governor Rick Scott signed amended “stand your ground” legislation on Friday, making it easier for defendants in the state to successfully claim they were protecting themselves when they commit violence.
Discussion: The Hill
 
 
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
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Media Matters for America:
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Timothy Mclaughlin / Reuters:
Civil rights groups sue Missouri to stop voter ID law
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Arian Campo-Flores / Wall Street Journal:
Puerto Rico to Vote Sunday on Statehood
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Man busted with over 1,000 fake drugs at Bonnaroo: 'I'm doing God's work'
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Sean Illing / Vox:
Trump's lawyer: Comey violated executive privilege. 10 legal experts: No, he didn't.
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