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Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
Trump Attorney: The President Is Not Under Investigation — WASHINGTON — An attorney for President Trump was adamant on Sunday that the president is not under investigation, despite the president's tweets this week referring to one as a “witch hunt.” — “Let me be clear here,” …
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Associated Press:
Trump attorney says president not under investigation — A member of the president's outside legal team said Sunday that Donald Trump is not under federal investigation, days after Trump appeared to confirm he was with a tweet about being the target of a “witch hunt.”
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 6-18-17: Newt Gingrich, Rep. Adam Schiff, and Douglas Lute — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ on June 18, 2017 and it will be updated. — RADDATZ: And I'm joined now by Trump ally and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, author of Understanding Trump.
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Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Newt Gingrich says Trump has a ‘compulsion to counterattack’
Newt Gingrich says Trump has a ‘compulsion to counterattack’
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Politico
CBS News:
Transcript: Jay Sekulow on “Face the Nation,” June 18, 2017
Transcript: Jay Sekulow on “Face the Nation,” June 18, 2017
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate GOP shifts focus to Lynch — Senate Republicans are clamoring to hear from Loretta Lynch after former FBI Director James Comey raised concerns about her involvement in the Hillary Clinton — email investigation. — Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are seizing …
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Bruce Bialosky / Townhall.com:
The Winners Are the Russians — You set off to invade and disrupt the election process of a global competitor. Your desire is to weaken the other's government. Except for potentially being responsible for leaking emails obtained from political operatives of one party …
New York Times:
High-Stakes Referendum on Trump Takes Shape in a Georgia Special Election — ATLANTA — Taking the stage in a half-filled airplane hangar to rally supporters of Republican candidate Karen Handel, Health Secretary Tom Price could not help but point to the record-shattering surge of liberal money …
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Georgia special election hurtles toward nail-biting finish
Georgia special election hurtles toward nail-biting finish
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Thomas Healy / The Atlantic:
Who's Afraid of Free Speech? — Middlebury College's decision to discipline 67 students who participated in a raucous and violent demonstration against conservative author Charles Murray brings closure to one of several disturbing incidents that took place on college campuses this semester.
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Ken White / Popehat:
Free Speech, The Goose, And The Gander
Free Speech, The Goose, And The Gander
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Notes on a Political Shooting — THE first thing to say about the attempted massacre of congressional Republicans on a baseball field in suburban Virginia is that the motivations of the shooter were unusual. By which I mean that, based on what we know, James Hodgkinson had surprisingly normal political beliefs.
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Kali Holloway / Salon:
White kids are bullying minority students using Trump's words — This is Trump's America: kids are mimicking the president in rhetoric and action — Donald Trump's real campaign promise was that he would give whites back the power they imagined they'd lost.
CNN:
Missing sailors found dead in flooded compartments on US Navy destroyer — (CNN)Seven missing sailors from the USS Fitzgerald were found dead in flooded berthing compartments following the warship's collision with a merchant vessel, a US military official said.
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New York Times:
How Michael Flynn's Disdain for Limits Led to a Legal Quagmire — WASHINGTON — Michael T. Flynn was a man seething and thwarted. In the summer of 2014, after repeatedly clashing with other Obama administration officials over his management of the Defense Intelligence Agency …
CNN:
Portugal wildfire: 61 killed, victims burned in cars as they fled — Photos: — Wildfire rages through central Portugal — A massive wildfire is reflected in a stream in central Portugal on Sunday, June 18, 2017. Several hundred firefighters fought the blaze, which broke out Saturday in the municipality of Pedrogao Grande.
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Lisa Rein / Washington Post:
Help wanted: Why Republicans won't work for the Trump administration — The array of legal and political threats hanging over the Trump presidency have compounded the White House's struggles to fill out the top ranks of the government. — Trump's firing of FBI Director James B. Comey …
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ThinkProgress, Axios, Raw Story and Booman Tribune
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Unedited Putin Interview Reveals A Missed Opportunity For Megyn Kelly and America — The footage obtained by HuffPost shows a nervous Kelly who failed to press Putin on obvious issues. — As Megyn Kelly and NBC News face a firestorm over her interview with InfoWars' Alex Jones …
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