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5:30 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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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.
The Hill:
Trump refuses to say whether White House tapes exist  —  President Trump on Friday refused to say whether tapes exist of his conversations with fired FBI Director James Comey.  —  “I'll tell you about that maybe sometime in the near future,” he told reporters during a White House news conference.
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and The Week
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 …
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 …
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
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
President Trump deflects questions about possible tapes of James Comey meeting  —  President Donald Trump refused to make a declarative statement about the alleged tapes of his meeting with former FBI Director James Comey that may or may not exist.  —  “I'll tell you something …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump's secret isn't that he lies. It's that he crowds out the truth.
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Did Trump just say he'd testify under oath about Comey?
Discussion: ABC News and YouTube
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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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
CNN cancels Reza Aslan's show “Believer” after profane anti-Trump tweets  —  CNN has parted ways with Reza Aslan, the host of a documentary series on the network, whose profane anti-Trump tweets were widely criticized earlier this week.  —  The network said Friday that it has …
Discussion: Friendly Atheist
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 Arlene Foster vows to bring stability to UK with Conservatives
Charlie Cooper / Politico:
5 takeaways from the UK election
Discussion: Axios
Atrios / Eschaton:
The Kids Are Alright  —  No actual figures, but presumably …
Discussion: The Guardian and Balloon Juice
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 …
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
White House social-media director Dan Scavino violated Hatch Act with tweet targeting GOP congressman
Discussion: Axios, Politico, Political Wire and Mashable
New York Times:
Trump Assails Qatar, Despite Tillerson's Call for ‘Calm’ in Standoff  —  WASHINGTON — Reversing himself again, President Trump on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to Qatar, accusing the Persian Gulf nation of being a “funder of terror at a very high level” and demanding that it cut off …
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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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Maggie Serota / Death and Taxes:
Senator Gillibrand on Democrats: 'If we're not helping people, we should go the f**k home'
Discussion: The Week and The Daily Caller
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.
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Steve Vladeck / Washington Post:
Trump's lawyer says Comey violated executive privilege. He's wrong.
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
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
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.
Arian Campo-Flores / Wall Street Journal:
Puerto Rico to Vote Sunday on Statehood  —  Voters in Puerto Rico head to the polls Sunday to decide whether to back a bid to make the U.S. territory the 51st state, at a time when the island is gripped by an economic crisis.
Discussion: Axios and CNBC
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New York Post:
Puerto Rican day parade loses half its floats over honoree controversy
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:
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian
 
 
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Business Insider:
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Discussion: IJR
Kate Maltby / The Guardian:
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Discussion: Refinery29
Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
Breitbart lost 90 percent of its advertisers in two months: Who's still there?
Discussion: Death and Taxes
Daily Mail:
General Election exit polls see Tories lose majority
CNN:
Comey told senators Sessions may have met Russia's ambassador a third time