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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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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 …
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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.”
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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 …
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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.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
There's no indication Comey violated the law. Trump may be about to.
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump's response to Comey shows how he weaponizes bulls**t
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Todd Shepherd / Washington Examiner:
James Comey admits leaking his Trump memo to the press
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Nicole Serratore / New York Times:
James Comey and the Predator in Chief
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New York Times:
Mr. Comey and All the President's Lies
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Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
In denying President Trump's abuse of power, Republicans have chosen party over country.
Juliegrace Brufke / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: White House Orders House Members To Defend Trump On Cable News Following Comey Hearing
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NBC News:
Comey: White House Lied ‘Plain and Simple’ About Firing
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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 …
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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 …
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BBC:
UK election 2017: UK set for hung parliament
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Atrios / Eschaton:
The Kids Are Alright — No actual figures, but presumably …
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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 …
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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.
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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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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
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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.
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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 …
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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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