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1:40 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.

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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 …

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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 …

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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 and Raw Story

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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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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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump's lawyer to file complaint against Comey: report

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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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Washington Times: Mr. Comey's not very good day

Fox News:
Gregg Jarrett: Comey exonerates Trump - so much for obstruction

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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Republicans' emerging Trump defense: A naif in the Oval Office

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Los Angeles Times:
Read Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz's statement after the Comey testimony

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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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Alan Dershowitz / Washington Examiner:
History, precedent and James Comey's opening statement show that Trump did not obstruct justice

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Susan Crabtree / Washington Free Beacon:
Former Official: Obama Admin ‘Systematically Disbanded’ Units Investigating Iran's Terrorism Financing Networks

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Jamelle Bouie / Slate: In denying President Trump's abuse of power, Republicans have chosen party over country.

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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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

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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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Washington Post:
Theresa May vows to ‘lead Britain forward’ despite staggering election blow

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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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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 …

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U.S. Department of Justice:
Department of Justice Issues Statement on Testimony of Former FBI Director James Comey

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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

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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 …

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

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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Daily Mail:
In one note, Winner allegedly wrote: ‘I want to burn the White House down and go live in Kurdistan’

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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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