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7:40 PM ET, April 12, 2018

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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.
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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” …
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
Discussion: The Week
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 …
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  —  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 by reviving the blistering Democratic criticism …
Rick Klein / ABC News:
Comey book claims President Trump sought loyalty like mafia boss ‘Sammy the Bull’  —  Donald Trump engaged in a months-long effort to secure the loyalty of then-FBI Director James Comey in a series of meetings and phone calls that began in the presidential transition period …
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 …
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
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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Associated Press:
$30,000 rumor?  Tabloid paid for, spiked, salacious Trump tip  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Eight months before the company that owns the National Enquirer paid $150,000 to a former Playboy Playmate who claimed she'd had an affair with Donald Trump, the tabloid's parent made a $30,000 payment …
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
National Enquirer paid second source with embarrassing Trump rumor
RADAR:
Prez Love Child Shocker! Ex-Trump Worker Peddling Rumor Donald Has Illegitimate Child
Discussion: Raw Story
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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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Pro-Trump EPA Official: Pruitt Asked Us to Rent Him a Private Plane
Discussion: Politico, Bloomberg and CNBC
New York Times:   At E.P.A., Pruitt's ‘Sheriff’ Clashed With Critics of Spending
Washington Post:
Senate confirms a former coal lobbyist as Scott Pruitt's second-in-command at EPA
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
Trump weighs rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership amid trade dispute with China  —  President Trump told top administration officials Thursday to look at rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the multination trade agreement he pulled the United States out of shortly after taking office.
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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 …
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 …
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Staring Down on Syria  —  On Saturday I took my family to have a closer look at Syria.  —  This was on the Golan Heights, from a roadside promontory overlooking the abandoned Syrian town of Quneitra.  The border is very green at this time of year, a serene patchwork of orchards and grassland …
Discussion: Breitbart and CNN
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New York Times:
Mattis Expresses Caution on Imminent Strike Against Syria
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.
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 …
Washington Post:
FBI raid sought Trump lawyer's communications with bank that loaned him money against his taxi business … A federal investigation into what role President Trump's personal attorney played in facilitating payments to two women who alleged affairs with Trump is also examining the lawyer's interactions …
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
Trump federal judicial nominee refuses to say whether she supports racial segregation in schools  —  Brown v. Wendy Vitter?  —  A Louisiana lawyer nominated by President Trump for a federal judgeship refused to affirm whether she's opposed to school segregation during a congressional hearing Wednesday.
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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
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.
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.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Ricky Waddell is leaving the White House  —  Trump's deputy National Security Adviser Ricky Waddell will leave the White House, according to two sources briefed on the decision.  New National Security Adviser John Bolton wants to bring his own person in, and Waddell was H.R. McMaster's hand-picked deputy.
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 …
The Right Scoop:
Former FEC Chairman tells Mark Levin why Stormy Daniels hush money CANNOT be an in kind campaign contribution  —  Last night Mark Levin interviewed a former FEC Chairman who explained why a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels cannot be considered an in kind contribution to the Trump campaign, thus violating campaign finance law.
ProPublica:
In Pennsylvania, It's Open Season on Undocumented Immigrants  —  QUAKERTOWN, PA — From the time they first flirted at a party, Anne and Ludvin Franco were inseparable.  It did not matter that Anne, a waitress, was Pennsylvania Dutch going back generations, while Ludvin, a cook, had grown up in the scrublands of eastern Guatemala.
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
America's Most and Least Popular Senators  —  There's good news and bad news for Senate Democrats up for re-election  — Sanders (I-Vt.) and McConnell (R-Ky.) remains the most popular and unpopular senators, respectively.  —  2018's first quarter was a volatile one for several senators …
 
 
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Associated Press:
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Discussion: Axios
NARAL:
Mike Pompeo Will Inflict Incredible Harm on Women and Girls Around the World
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MapLight:
Koch Flagship Dark Money Organization Received $48.7 Million Gift During Election Year
Pema Levy / Mother Jones:
Member of Trump's Voter Fraud Commission Sued for Voter Intimidation
Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Want the FCC to Revoke Sinclair's Broadcast Licenses
Reveal:
A small-time scam artist gave Trump a mansion for $0. Why?
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Trump Didn't Break the Speakership, It Was Already Broken
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Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
VIDEO: Pelosi suffers face spasms, says wrong words during brief appearance
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Revealed: Secret rightwing strategy to discredit teacher strikes
Discussion: Common Dreams and Splinter
Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed:
Pennsylvania Will Eliminate Paperless Voting Machines In Time For The 2020 Election
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Gets Petty After Noah Rothman Bests Him in Intense Syria Showdown
Discussion: RealClearPolitics
The Pew Charitable Trusts:
The State Pension Funding Gap: 2016
Discussion: Associated Press