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10:40 PM ET, April 12, 2018

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Michiko Kakutani / New York Times:
James Comey Has a Story to Tell.  It's Very Persuasive.  —  Truth, Lies, and Leadership  —  290 pages.  Flatiron Books.  $29.99.  —  In his absorbing new book, “A Higher Loyalty,” the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey calls the Trump presidency a “forest fire” …
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Washington Post:
Trump's allies worry that federal investigators may have seized recordings made by his attorney … President Trump's personal attorney Michael D. Cohen sometimes taped conversations with associates, according to three people familiar with his practice, and allies of the president are worried …
Ruth Brown / New York Post:
Comey: Trump asked me to investigate ‘pee tape’ to reassure Melania  —  President Trump wanted James Comey to investigate the infamous “pee tape” allegations — to reassure Melania that he hadn't actually paid Russian hookers to urinate on a hotel bed, the former FBI chief claims in his upcoming book.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
James Comey's memoir: Trump fixates on proving lewd dossier allegations false … The nation's intelligence chiefs had just finished briefing Donald Trump on Russia's interference in the 2016 election when FBI Director James B. Comey stayed behind to discuss some especially sensitive material …
Associated Press:
In new book, Comey says Trump ‘untethered to truth’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI Director James Comey blasts President Donald Trump as unethical and “untethered to truth” and calls his leadership of the country “ego driven and about personal loyalty” in a forthcoming book.
The Daily Beast:
James Comey: John Kelly Called Trump ‘Dishonorable’ for Firing Me … Within minutes of his firing in May, former FBI Director James Comey received a call from John Kelly, then the head of the Department of Homeland Security and now the White House chief of staff.
Jeff Zeleny / CNN:
Exclusive: Inside the GOP plan to discredit Comey  —  Trump allies aim to discredit James Comey  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's allies are preparing an extensive campaign to fight back against James Comey's publicity tour, trying to undermine the credibility of the former FBI director …
Washington Post:
FBI raid sought Trump lawyer's communications with bank that loaned him money against his taxi business
CNN:   FBI may have seized recorded conversations from Trump's attorney
The Daily Beast:
Comey: Trump Asked Me to Investigate ‘Pee Tape’ Allegations
Discussion: Raw Story
NBC News:
Trump, Mueller teams prepare to move forward without presidential interview  —  WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office and President Donald Trump's legal team are now proceeding with strategies that presume a presidential interview will likely not take place as part of the Russia investigation …
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CNN:
White House is prepping an effort to undermine Rosenstein  —  Washington (CNN)The White House is preparing talking points designed to undermine Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's credibility, according to sources familiar with the plan.  —  The plan calls on President Donald Trump's allies …
Ryan Struyk / CNN:
Republican voters are turning against the Mueller probe  —  Trump: We'll see what happens to Mueller  —  Washington (CNN)Six months ago, Republican voters were almost evenly split on whether special counsel Robert Mueller was conducting a fair investigation into potential links between …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Benjamin Wittes / The Atlantic:
The Principle of Professional Law Enforcement Is Now on the Line
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:   Mueller has the goods on Trump's 4 potential acts of obstruction
Paul Rosenzweig / The Atlantic:   Firing Rosenstein Won't Save Trump
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
President Trump poised to pardon Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, sources say  —  President Donald Trump is poised to pardon Scooter J. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, according to sources familiar with the president's thinking.
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New York Times:
Trump Plans to Pardon Scooter Libby  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to pardon I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr., who as chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney was convicted of perjury in connection with the leak of a C.I.A. officer's identity, a person familiar with the decision said on Thursday.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Lawmakers' Letter Claims Further Spending Abuses by the E.P.A. Head, Scott Pruitt  —  WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, insisted on staying in luxury hotels that were costlier than allowed by government standards, while also pushing to fly on an airline …
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
Trump Reverses Course and Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump, in a stunning reversal, told a gathering of farm state lawmakers and governors on Thursday morning that he was directing his advisers to look into rejoining the multicountry trade deal known …
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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
The National Enquirer, a Trump Rumor, and Another Secret Payment to Buy Silence  —  Late in 2015, a former Trump Tower doorman named Dino Sajudin met with a reporter from American Media, Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania.
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New York Daily News:
Ex-wife of former Trump building doorman who claimed the President has a love child says he's a liar  —  The former Trump building doorman who claimed he heard the President has a love child is “a pathological liar,” his ex-wife told the Daily News.  —  “He's infamous for making up stories …
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Diamond & Silk Claim Facebook Never Contacted Them.  Facebook Emails Prove Otherwise. … Pro-Trump vloggers Diamond & Silk found themselves the center of two high-profile congressional hearings this week lawmakers obsessed over claims the duo were “censored” by Facebook.
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Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:   Diamond, Silk, Facebook, and Facts
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump, Having Denounced Amazon's Shipping Deal, Orders Review of Postal Service  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump abruptly issued an executive order on Thursday demanding an evaluation of the Postal Service's finances, asserting the power of his office weeks after accusing Amazon …
Discussion: Washington Times
Emma Platoff / The Texas Tribune:
Former Texas Congressman Steve Stockman found guilty of 23 felonies  —  A federal jury in Houston has ruled that Steve Stockman, a conservative former Texas congressman, is guilty of all but one charge in his federal fraud trial.  —  Steve Stockman, a former Texas congressman …
Washington Post:
Confirm Mike Pompeo  —  MIKE POMPEO'S confirmation hearing to become secretary of state arrived at a moment when the Trump administration is grappling with a chaotic confluence of actual and looming foreign crises — including some of its own making.  President Trump is contemplating military strikes …
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Madeleine Marr / miamiherald:
This Parkland teacher left his gun in a public bathroom.  It was loaded, BSO says.  —  Not the most normal sight: a gun left in the bathroom stall.  —  But that's exactly what went down on Sunday in a men's room at the Deerfield Beach Pier.  —  The circumstances of how the Glock 9mm got there are unusual.
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Washington Post:   Parkland students cover the shooting they survived and the classmates they lost
Matt Bai / Yahoo:
Fire the special counsel.  Please.  —  Let me put it to you this way, Mr. President.  Who are you going to listen to — the voice of the stable genius inside your head, or the timid voices of experience, the ones that said you'd never win?  —  You know what you want to do.  Just do it already.
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Holocaust Is Fading From Memory, Survey Finds  —  For seven decades, “never forget” has been a rallying cry of the Holocaust remembrance movement.  —  But a survey released Thursday, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, found that many adults lack basic knowledge of what happened …
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James Oliver Cury / Hollywood Reporter:
Charlie Rose's Life Now: “Broken,” “Brilliant” and “Lonely”  —  Before the devastating allegations of sexual misconduct hit, Rose was a legendary man-about-town.  Now, the former CBS and PBS star, one of TV's most feted journalists, is hiding out on Long Island with occasional …
Discussion: Mediaite
Rob Haskell / Vogue:
Disney CEO Bob Iger On Taking the Biggest Risk of His Career  —  Disney's plan to acquire 21st Century Fox is about keeping up with a rapidly changing world.  “The status quo, to me, is a joke,” says Iger, photographed at home in Los Angeles.  —  Photographed by Mark Peckmezian, Vogue, May 2018.
Fox News:
Biblical prophecy claims the Rapture is coming April 23, numerologist says  —  Is the Rapture finally here?  One Christian numerologist says a biblical sign strongly suggests it.  —  David Meade tells the U.K.'s Daily Express newspaper that on April 23, the sun and moon will be in Virgo, as will Jupiter, which represents the Messiah.
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Indiana GOP locked candidate out of database  —  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Senate candidate Todd Rokita likely violated ethics laws as Indiana's secretary of state by repeatedly accessing a Republican donor database from his government office, prompting party officials to lock …
Discussion: Political Wire
Chicago Tribune:
Brain-damaging lead found in tap water in hundreds of homes tested across Chicago, results show  —  Amid renewed national attention to the dangers of lead poisoning, hundreds of Chicagoans have taken the city up on its offer of free testing kits to determine if they are drinking tap water contaminated with the brain-damaging metal.
Discussion: WGN-TV
Adam Schefter / ESPN:
Seahawks postpone visit after Colin Kaepernick won't say if he'll stop kneeling  —  After arranging for Colin Kaepernick to work out for the Seattle Seahawks this week, team officials postponed the trip when the quarterback declined to say he would stop kneeling during the national anthem next season …
 
 
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