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2:35 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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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.
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Shakesville
Sean Illing / Vox:
Trump's lawyer: Comey violated executive privilege. 10 legal experts: No, he didn't.  —  After the public testimony of former FBI Director James Comey on Thursday, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, released a statement.  In addition to being riddled with typos, it contained a curious legal argument.
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump's secret isn't that he lies.  It's that he crowds out the truth.  —  Trump isn't trying to win the argument.  He's trying to dominate it.  —  Donald Trump understands, better than any politician I've ever seen, that the question isn't whether you're winning the argument …
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 …
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: Raw Story, Political Wire and The Week
Washington Times:   Mr. Comey's not very good day
Los Angeles Times:
Read Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz's statement after the Comey testimony
The Guardian:
DUP leader Arlene Foster vows to 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 …
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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 …
Charlie Cooper / Politico:
5 takeaways from the UK election
Discussion: Axios
Alain Tolhurst / The Sun:
'I'M SORRY' Theresa May apologises over election disaster but vows to lead country with 'certainty …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian
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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CNN:
Comey told senators Sessions may have met Russia's ambassador a third time
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.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
White House Official Violated Law Banning Political Activity, Agency Says  —  WASHINGTON — Dan Scavino Jr., the White House director of social media, violated a federal law that prohibits political activity by government employees, the federal agency empowered to enforce the law has concluded …
Discussion: The Hill, ABC News and The Atlantic
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
White House social-media director Dan Scavino violated Hatch Act with tweet targeting GOP congressman
Nicole Carr / WSB-TV:
Prosecutors: Contractor wanted to ‘burn the White House down’  —  RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. - An Augusta woman charged with leaking classified information was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count, but prosecutors said they are likely to add more.  —  A federal magistrate judge held …
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
NSA Leaker Hopes Being ‘White And Cute’ Will Help Get Her Off The Hook
Discussion: IJR, The Gateway Pundit and Fox News
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 …
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: IJR
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: Raw Story
 
 
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Jessica Durando / USA Today:
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Atrios / Eschaton:
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Fox News Insider:
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Kate Maltby / The Guardian:
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The Local:
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Discussion: Vox Popoli
Henry F. Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
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Breitbart lost 90 percent of its advertisers in two months: Who's still there?
Discussion: Death and Taxes
Daily Mail:
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