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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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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Did Trump just say he'd testify under oath about Comey? — Let's break down this confusing exchange at a White House press conference. — At a press conference Friday, President Donald Trump continued to accuse fired FBI Director James Comey of lying about his conversations with Trump …
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Tom LoBianco / CNN:
House, Senate investigators seek Trump tapes, Comey memos — (CNN)House and Senate investigators fired off a series of requests after former FBI Director James Comey's testimony, seeking memos of his private discussions with President Donald Trump and any records the White House kept of their discussion — including audio recordings.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House Intelligence Committee leaders ask White House for any Comey tapes
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate Dems: Investigate any obstruction of justice on Comey, Russia
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
President Trump deflects questions about possible tapes of James Comey meeting
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Ryan denies GOP would try to impeach Dem accused of same actions as Trump
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Fabiola Santiago / miamiherald:
Did Rubio trade the integrity of U.S. for a Cuba-policy shift from Trump?
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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
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Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
CNN Drops Reza Aslan Series After Vulgar Anti-Trump Tweets
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Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Trump Can Accept Payments From Foreign Governments, U.S. Argues — Government says emoluments clause doesn't bar Trump businesses — Watchdog group sued president over payments to his companies — Donald Trump isn't violating a U.S. Constitution provision that bars federal officials …
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John Harwood / CNBC:
The GOP still champions Trump, but that might not last — “I travel this state every day,” a Republican senator declared recently, “and I haven't yet had anybody come up to me and say they're worried about Russia messing with our elections.” — Comments like that, from Sen. Luther Strange of Alabama …
Miranda Green / CNN:
Kirsten Gillibrand drops f-bomb during speech on democracy — Washington (CNN)Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's message about helping the public took on a bold tone Friday morning when she told a crowd at a conference on technology and democracy, “If we are not helping people, we should go the f— home.”
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Gillibrand rips Trump: ‘Has he kept his promises? No. F— no’
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Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
Trump Discovers Article 5 After Disastrous NATO Visit — Trump's public performance in Brussels was a disaster. Behind closed doors, it was even worse. — At long last, U.S. President Donald Trump endorsed NATO's bedrock collective defense clause, Article 5, in a press conference Friday.
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Ana Swanson / Washington Post:
Republicans are predicting the beginning of the end of the tea party in Kansas — OVERLAND PARK, Kans. - Kansas was at the heart of the tea-party revolution, a red state where, six years ago, a deeply conservative group of Republicans took the state for a hard right turn.
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Biden encourages 2012 foe Romney to run for the Senate — At donor conference, Biden also repeats his criticisms of Hillary Clinton's failed presidential bid — DEER VALLEY, UTAH — Mitt Romney is getting encouragement to run for Senate in 2018 from an unlikely source: Joe Biden.
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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.
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
New York attorney general ‘looking into’ Eric Trump's foundation
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Feds Succeed In Delaying Lawsuit Where Key Travel Ban Memo Is At Issue — The Justice Department has scored a rare win for President Trump's travel ban. — On Friday afternoon, a federal judge temporarily halted a lawsuit where the government has been strongly fighting to keep …
Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
Trump's lawyer in Russia probe has clients with Kremlin ties — The hard-charging New York lawyer President Trump chose to represent him in the Russia investigation has prominent clients with ties to the Kremlin, a striking pick for a president trying to escape the persistent cloud that has trailed his administration.
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New York Times:
Trump Team's Shifts Jolt Some Allies and Soothe Others — WASHINGTON — President Trump scrambled American diplomacy on two fronts on Friday, delivering a stinging rebuke of Qatar at the very moment his secretary of state was trying to mend fences in the Persian Gulf, while at the same …
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Rex W. Tillerson / US Department of State:
Washington, DC — Good afternoon, and I thank all of you for your patience.
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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 …
Bernie Woodall / Reuters:
Florida governor signs bolstered ‘stand your ground’ law — Florida Governor Rick Scott signed amended “stand your ground” legislation on Friday, making it easier for defendants in the state to successfully claim they were protecting themselves when they commit violence.
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Chris Villani / Boston Herald:
Jeb Bush backs president, but says ‘who cares what I think?’ — Former Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush said he doesn't think President Trump obstructed justice when he fired former FBI director James B. Comey. — When Bush, who spoke yesterday to a standing-room …
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Feds: Trump's Twitter Guru Violated the Law … Dan Scavino, the director of social media for President Donald Trump, was found to have violated a federal law prohibiting certain government employees from using their position to engage in some forms of political activity.
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Bloomberg:
Mnuchin Says U.S. Can Cope If Debt Ceiling Not Raised by August — Government has ‘backup plans’ if limit not lifted in time — Critical not to disrupt financial markets, Treasury chief says — The U.S. government has “backup plans” for funding itself if Congress doesn't raise …
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