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11:25 PM ET, April 10, 2018

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New York Times:
Trump Sought to Fire Mueller in December  —  In early December, President Trump, furious over news reports about a new round of subpoenas from the office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, told advisers in no uncertain terms that Mr. Mueller's investigation had to be shut down.
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CNN:
Trump considering firing Rosenstein to check Mueller  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump is considering firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, multiple people familiar with the discussions tell CNN, a move that has gained urgency following the raid of the office of the President's personal lawyer.
Don Lemon / CNN:
Michael Cohen to CNN: FBI was ‘professional, courteous, respectful’ in raids, counter to Trump's depiction  —  New York (CNN)In his first comments since the FBI raid on his home and office, Michael Cohen said the FBI agents “were extremely professional, courteous and respectful.”
New York Times:
Raid on Trump's Lawyer Sought Records of Payments to Women  —  WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. agents who raided the office of President Trump's personal lawyer on Monday were looking for records about payments to two women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump, and information related …
New York Times:
At the White House, Trump Takes Selfies and Seethes Over Mueller  —  WASHINGTON — Outside the White House, President Trump grinned for selfies with Alabama's Crimson Tide, telling the college football champions that they had beaten their rivals so brutally, “you flat-out made them quit” …
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“He's Sitting There Bitching and Moaning”: Inside Trumpworld, Allies Fear the Boss Could Go Postal and Fire Mueller  —  Trump's friends say the president is “dry tinder” awaiting a match.  Meanwhile, his latest hires are already creating new management nightmares for John Kelly.
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
President Trump has never been in more trouble than right now … As you've heard, federal agents raided the office and home of Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer.  Yet despite how rare an action it is to pierce attorney-client privilege this way, the big-picture story here seems inevitable …
Discussion: Axios, The Atlantic, Hot Air and Lawfare
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
US Attorney, Trump appointee, recused from Michael Cohen investigation  —  ABC News has learned that Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is recused from the Michael Cohen investigation.  —  Two sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News Berman …
Ken White / New York Times:
Why the F.B.I. Raid Is Perilous for Michael Cohen — and Trump  —  After a year of almost weekly revelations about Robert Mueller's investigation of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, even indictments and guilty pleas of campaign officials have grown familiar.  It's not that the special counsel …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
With Scant Precedent, White House Insists Trump Could Fire Mueller Himself  —  WASHINGTON — As President Trump continued to fume on Tuesday about the Justice Department's raids on the office and hotel room of his longtime personal lawyer, the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders …
Associated Press:
After FBI raids, Trump's longtime fixer out of the shadows  —  NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a decade, Michael Cohen has been President Donald Trump's private attorney — and so much more.  Cohen is a street-wise New Yorker with a penchant for confrontation and a cultivated reputation as Trump's outside-the-courtroom problem-solver.
Wall Street Journal:   White House Says Trump Has Power to Fire Mueller
New York Times:
Michael Cohen, ‘Ultimate Trump Loyalist,’ Now in the Sights of the F.B.I.
Discussion: Above the Law
CNN:
FBI raid targeted records of payments to porn star, ex-Playmate
Associated Press:   Trump axes trip amid discussions over Syria, raid on lawyer
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer: It's time to vote on legislation protecting Mueller
Discussion: Sean Hannity
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump: ‘Many people have said’ I should fire Mueller
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Federal probe into Trump's lawyer seeks records about two women who alleged affairs with the president
Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE — Jim Jordan: Sessions, Rosenstein ‘Need To Be Held Accountable’
Discussion: Raw Story
New York Times:
Facebook Fallout Deals Blow to Mercers' Political Clout  —  Last month, a friend of the wealthy conservative donor Rebekah Mercer arrived at Facebook's Silicon Valley headquarters.  His task: Find out what — if anything — could repair relations between Facebook, the world's biggest social media company …
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Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
European Commission raids Murdoch's Fox offices in London  —  The British offices of the Murdoch entertainment empire 21st Century Fox have been raided by investigators from the European Commission, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.  —  It is understood that competition watchdogs gained access …
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Christine Wang / CNBC:   Fox offices in London raided by European Commission investigators
New York Times:
Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has said that political data firm Cambridge Analytica improperly harvested the public profile data of up to 87 million of its users, including their political beliefs, interests and friends' information.
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Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed:   Rebekah Mercer Asked Facebook For An Independent Investigation Into Cambridge Analytica
New York Times:
Fact Check: What Mark Zuckerberg Is Saying About Facebook, Data and Elections
Discussion: Bustle
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp: Trump ‘asked me to switch parties’ … Donald Trump was still weeks away from being sworn in as president when, according to one Democratic senator, he was already trying to get her to defect to the Republicans.  —  “When I visited with him in Trump Tower …
Daily Mail:
Justice Department violated Michael Cohen's constitutional rights just by seizing his records, Alan Dershowitz tells DailyMail.com - hours before Harvard law professor has dinner with Trump  — Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz will have dinner Tuesday at the White House with President Donald Trump
Discussion: Breitbart
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Alan M. Dershowitz / The Hill:
Targeting Trump's lawyer should worry us all
Discussion: Mediaite
New York Times:
E.P.A. Assesses Threats on Twitter to Justify Pruitt's Spending  —  WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has been examining posts on Twitter and other social media about Scott Pruitt, the agency's administrator, to justify his extraordinary and costly security measures …
Discussion: ABC News
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Erin Banco / New Jersey Online:
The Trump Russia probe is expanding, as Mueller looks into new meetings in Seychelles: exclusive  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is examining a series of previously unreported meetings that took place in 2017 in the Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean …
Associated Press:
The Latest: John Bolton urged Trump to cancel trip abroad  —  The Latest on U.S. policy on Syria (all times local):  —  A senior Russian lawmaker says that a U.S. strike on Syria could trigger a direct military clash between Russia and the United States.  —  Vladimir Shamanov …
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Michael Casagrande / al.com:
How Nick Saban addressed White House trip, what Alabama players think
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Military Strike on Syria Will Be Illegal … With much of the world bracing for Donald Trump's new missile strikes on Syria, the president's legal authority to attack Bashar Assad is conspicuously AWOL.  —  Assad isn't subject to either of the two authorizations Congress passed after 9/11 to bless the use of military force.
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New York Times:
Trump Weighs More Robust Military Strike Against Syria
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Sam Reilly / ABC News:
Tennessee college student defends her gun-toting ‘graduation’ photo  —  Amid a youth-driven gun control debate that has swarmed social media, a college senior in Tennessee is defending the provocative photo she posted of her packing a handgun with the caption, “I don't take normal graduation photos ...”
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Russia-linked account pushed fake Hillary Clinton sex video  —  A pornographic video that falsely claimed to show Hillary Clinton engaged in a sex act has been traced back to an account that Reddit acknowledged on Tuesday is linked to Russia's Internet Research Agency.
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Trump to host GOP leaders for dinner after Mueller attacks  —  President Donald Trump will host Republican leaders for dinner at the White House on Wednesday night, according to three sources familiar with the matter.  —  The dinner has been in the works for several days and was being planned …
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Facebook told two women their pro-Trump videos were ‘unsafe’ … Two sisters famous for praising President Trump say Facebook has deemed their videos dangerous.  —  Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson are better known as “Diamond and Silk” to their hundreds of thousands of fans — one of whom is Trump.
 
 
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CBS News:
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Charles Robinson / Yahoo! Sports:
NFL deposes Colin Kaepernick in grievance battle
Discussion: ProFootballTalk and Breitbart
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
A ‘dreamer’ traveled to Mexico. Now he can't get home to his husband.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Mark Zuckerberg's Chair on Capitol Hill Has a Nice Big Extra Cushion
Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:
Justice Dept. to halt legal-advice program for immigrants in detention
Discussion: Axios and The Gateway Pundit
Bloomberg:
Apple Must Pay $502.6 Million to VirnetX, Federal Jury Rules
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Hoyer plays Florida kingmaker
 Earlier Items: 
Emily Saul / Page Six:
Testimony halted as defense slips up at Cosby trial
Discussion: USA Today and The Daily Caller
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times:
Bank of America to Stop Financing Makers of Military-Style Guns
Discussion: BostonGlobe.com
Wall Street Journal:
Manhattan Federal Prosecutor Recuses Himself from Cohen Probe
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Megan McArdle / Washington Post:
Bias against conservatives works like any other prejudice
Ken Sweet / Associated Press:
Under Trump, a voice for the American consumer goes silent
Discussion: Vox and Reuters
 

 
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