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12:45 PM ET, June 9, 2017

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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.
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CNN:
Comey told senators Sessions may have met Russia's ambassador a third time  —  Comey: AG may have met ambassador a third time  — But the sources said it is possible the Russian ambassador exaggerated the extent of the encounter  —  Washington (CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey told senators …
New York Times:
‘I Was Right’: As Trump Watches Comey on TV, Anxiety Yields to Relief  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump dipped in and out of the small dining room off the Oval Office on Thursday to monitor a television as James B. Comey, the ousted F.B.I. director, told a tortured tale — and to insist to his huddled legal team, “I was right.”
Steve Vladeck / Washington Post:
Trump's lawyer says Comey violated executive privilege.  He's wrong.  —  That isn't how executive privilege works at all.  —  A few hours after former FBI director James B. Comey finished testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, President Trump's personal lawyer …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump's lawyer to file complaint against Comey: report  —  President Trump's outside attorney is planning on filing a complaint against fired FBI Director James Comey with the Justice Department over his handling of memos on his interactions with the president, CNN reported Friday.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
There's no indication Comey violated the law. Trump may be about to.
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Magazine
Washington Times:   Mr. Comey's not very good day
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump's response to Comey shows how he weaponizes bulls**t
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:   In denying President Trump's abuse of power, Republicans have chosen party over country.
Wall Street Journal:
James Comey's Passion Play
Discussion: Just Security
NBC News:
Comey: White House Lied ‘Plain and Simple’ About Firing
Discussion: Salon, NBC News, Washington Post and CNBC
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
The Fall of Theresa May — and Donald Trump?  —  Just a few months ago, it's worth remembering, we seemed to be careening to a new and possibly long-lived right-populist era in Anglo-American politics.  In the U.S., Donald Trump had stunned the world and his own party Establishment by seizing …
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The Guardian:
DUP leader vows to help bring stability to UK with Conservatives  —  Arlene Foster confirms she will be having talks with Theresa May about details of arrangement with Northern Ireland party  —  The Democratic Unionist leader and most recent first minister of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster …
Charlie Cooper / Politico:
5 takeaways from the UK election  —  An extraordinary night for British politics has ended in a hung parliament.  —  LONDON — It was an astonishing election by any estimation.  A prime minister humiliated, a Labour leader dismissed as a no-hoper massively outperforming expectations …
Discussion: Axios
Atrios / Eschaton:
The Kids Are Alright  —  No actual figures, but presumably …
Discussion: The Guardian and Balloon Juice
The Guardian:
May adopts contrite tone after Tory MPs vent anger over election
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Incompetence Defense  —  During former FBI Director James Comey's dramatic testimony before the Senate on Thursday, Republican senators settled on a pair of strange arguments for why President Trump hadn't obstructed justice: He didn't try very hard, or he was really bad at it.
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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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
Fox News:
Gregg Jarrett: Comey exonerates Trump - so much for obstruction  —  James Comey's public testimony exonerates President Trump of obstruction of justice.  —  To put it simply, “hoping” that something happens is not a crime.  The law demands much more than that.
Robert Barnes / LawNewz:
Comey was Before Congress to Indict Trump.  Instead, He Might Have Indicted Himself.  —  The key interlude occurred with the ubiquitous Kamala Harris, the same Senator Harris who failed the bar the first time she took the bar exam.  Only a Kamala-Comey marriage could birth this debacle:
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Peter Baker / New York Times:   For Trump, the ‘Cloud’ Just Grew That Much Darker
Bloomberg:
Comey Leaves Trump Under a Crippling ‘Cloud’ of Investigations
Discussion: Axios and The Atlantic
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.
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Richard Elliot / WSB-TV:
NEW POLL: Ossoff support increases after debate with Handel
Business Insider:
JIM ROGERS: The worst crash in our lifetime is coming  —  Legendary investor Jim Rogers s  —  at down with Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget on this week's episode of “The Bottom Line.”  Rogers predicts a market crash in the next few years, one that he says will rival anything he has seen in his lifetime.
Discussion: IJR
Washington Post:
Twelve seconds of gunfire … Recess had finally started, so Ava Olsen picked up her chocolate cupcake, then headed outside toward the swings.  And that's when the 7-year-old saw the gun.  —  It was black and in the hand of someone the first-graders on the playground would later describe as a thin …
Kate Maltby / The Guardian:
Theresa May rejected the Tory detoxification project.  That's what's behind this mess  —  Once she talked of modernisation.  Then she allowed the flat-earthers of that toxicity, Lynton Crosby chief among them, to flourish at the top of the party … ost people have heard of the term …
Discussion: Refinery29
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
Breitbart lost 90 percent of its advertisers in two months: Who's still there?  —  The number of advertisers on the alt-right site Breitbart.com has dropped 90 percent in recent months, from 242 in March to 26 in May, according to data from MediaRadar, a New York firm that tracks online advertising.
 
 
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Lauren Effron / ABC News:
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Fox News Insider:
Alan Dershowitz: President Trump Could Have Just Pardoned Michael Flynn
Discussion: Daily Wire
Katha Pollitt / The Nation:
Lack of Empathy Is Not the Problem
New York Post:
Puerto Rican day parade loses half its floats over honoree controversy
Daily Mail:
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Discussion: Daily Wire
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
BREAKING: TRUMP fires back at COMEY: 'Despite so many false statements and lies, total …
Daily Mail:
General Election exit polls see Tories lose majority
New York Times:
Resigned to Trump's Woes, G.O.P. Keeps Working on Legislative Goals
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Republicans' emerging Trump defense: A naif in the Oval Office
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