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8:00 PM ET, April 13, 2018

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New York Times:
Trump Sees Inquiry Into Cohen as Greater Threat Than Mueller  —  President Trump's advisers have concluded that a wide-ranging corruption investigation in New York poses a greater and more imminent threat to the president than even the special counsel's investigation, according to several people close to Mr. Trump.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Negotiated $1.6 Million Settlement for Top Republican Fundraiser  —  The 2017 deal was on behalf of Elliott Broidy, a businessman who faced allegations he impregnated a former Playboy model, and resembles one Mr. Cohen arranged with Stormy Daniels
Justin Miller / The Daily Beast:
Prosecutors Probing Michael Cohen Have Nailed Financial Frauds, Corrupt Pols and Organized Crooks … Michael Cohen has never faced attorneys like the ones investigating him.  —  The federal prosecutors looking into Cohen, the longtime lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump …
CNN:
Exclusive: FBI seized recordings between Trump's lawyer and Stormy Daniels' former lawyer  —  (CNN)The FBI seized recordings President Donald Trump's attorney made of his conversations with a lawyer representing two women who had alleged affairs with Trump, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.
CNN:
DOJ: Michael Cohen ‘under criminal investigation’  —  In a CNN Special Report “Hush Money: Trouble for Trump?”  Sara Sidner examines the President's predicament after his personal lawyer Michael Cohen paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000.  Watch Saturday at 8 p.m. ET.
Wall Street Journal:
Elliott Broidy Quits RNC Post After Report on Payment to Ex-Model  —  Fundraiser agreed to pay $1.6 million to woman who said he had impregnated her, Wall Street Journal reported  —  GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy on Friday resigned from his post as deputy national finance chairman …
Kyra Phillips / ABC News:
Trump, Cohen spoke Friday as feds look into seized recordings, sources say
Discussion: CNN, Political Wire, Daily Kos and Raw Story
Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Trump lawyer Michael Cohen under criminal investigation
Discussion: Bloomberg
CNN:
Michael Cohen facilitated $1.6 million agreement on behalf of GOP fundraiser
Discussion: twitchy.com
Associated Press:
Hearing related to FBI raid at Trump lawyer's office is set
Discussion: Common Dreams
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
RNC fundraiser resigns after report of $1.6 million Playmate payoff
Discussion: RedState
Tom Hamburger / Washington Post:
RNC deputy finance chair steps down after admitting Trump's lawyer negotiated settlement between …
Discussion: TheBlaze
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein tells confidantes he is prepared to be fired  —  WASHINGTON — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has struck a stoic and righteous tone in private conversations he has had this week about the fate of his job as President Donald Trump has launched public criticism …
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New York Times:
Former F.B.I. Deputy Director Is Faulted in Scathing Inspector General Report  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department inspector general delivered to Congress on Friday a highly critical report that accused Andrew G. McCabe, the former F.B.I. deputy director, of repeatedly misleading investigators.
Lauren Effron / ABC News:
Comey says Trump asked if he could disprove salacious prostitute allegations in ‘dossier’  —  Former FBI director James Comey says President Donald Trump asked him to investigate the salacious allegations from the so-called “dossier” to “prove that it didn't happen” and said it would be …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Publisher printing 850,000 copies of James Comey book  —  Comey: Briefing Trump felt like out-of-body experience  —  The publisher of James Comey's book “A Higher Loyalty” is printing 850,000 copies to meet the expected demand from buyers.  —  To put that number in perspective …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Sets Out Tougher Approaches to Syria, Justice Department in Tumultuous Week
Laura Jarrett / CNN:   EXCLUSIVE: Rosenstein consulted with ethics adviser at DOJ on Russia probe
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Trump Calls Comey ‘Untruthful Slime Ball’ as Book Details Released
New York Times:
As Clinton Camp Denied Reports of Criminal Inquiry, F.B.I. Was Investigating, Comey Says
Discussion: AOL and Outside the Beltway
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
Comey Memoir: Hiding Clinton Email News Would've Made Her Presidency ‘Illegitimate’
Discussion: Mediaite
CNN:
Justice Department inspector general report cites lack of candor by McCabe
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
James Comey is drawing fire, but he's not Trump's real problem
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Congress gets DOJ inspector general's critical report on FBI's McCabe
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Axios
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Sources: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier  —  WASHINGTON  —  The Justice Department special counsel has evidence that Donald Trump's personal lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, secretly made a late-summer trip to Prague during the 2016 presidential campaign …
BuzzFeed:
A Former Russian Spy Worked On A Trump Moscow Deal While Trump Was Running For President  —  While Trump was running for president, his business team was trying to develop a Trump tower in Moscow — with the help of a former Russian military intelligence officer.
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Thomas Frank / BuzzFeed:
Two Democrats Accuse Cambridge Analytica CEO Of Misleading House Committee In Still-Secret Testimony
Discussion: IJR
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Seeks Large Strike in Syria; Mattis Urges Caution  —  President and defense secretary differ on response to suspected Syrian chemical attack  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is prodding his military advisers to agree to a more sweeping retaliatory strike in Syria than they consider prudent …
Discussion: HuffPost and CNBC
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Joyce Karam / The National:   Trump at odds with Mattis on Syria military response, report
WJBK-TV:
Black teen misses bus, gets shot at after asking for directions in Rochester Hills  —  ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (WJBK) - A 14-year-old missed his bus and it nearly cost him his life.  —  Things took a dangerous turn when Brennan Walker went looking for help at a Rochester Hills home Thursday morning …
The White House:
Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding the Pardon of I.  “Scooter” Lewis Libby  —  Today, President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Grant of Clemency (Full Pardon) to I.  “Scooter” Lewis Libby, former Chief of Staff to Vice President Richard Cheney, for convictions stemming from a 2007 trial.
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CNN:
HHS official shared post saying ‘forefathers’ would have ‘hung’ Obama, Clinton for treason  —  (CNN)A political appointee at the Department of Health and Human Services shared an image in 2017 that said “our forefathers would have hung” Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for treason, a CNN KFile review has found.
Discussion: Raw Story
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Trump, Gardner strike deal on legalized marijuana, ending standoff over Justice nominees … President Trump has promised a top Senate Republican that he will support congressional efforts to protect states that have legalized marijuana — defusing a months-long standoff between Sen. Cory Gardner …
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Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Trump Backs State-Level Marijuana Regulation, Lifting Pot Stocks
Discussion: RedState
New Yorker:
Chick-fil-A's Creepy Infiltration of New York City  —  During a recent lunch hour, I was alone on the rooftop of the largest Chick-fil-A in the world.  The restaurant, on Fulton Street, is the company's fourth in Manhattan, and it opened last month to the kind of slick, corporate-friendly fanfare that can only greet a new chain.
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
I'd Like to Offer This Sanity Quiz to All #NeverTrump Conservatives  —  Nicolle Wallace, David Frum, Joe Scarborough, Bill Kristol: Step right up.  —  I am told regularly by people I admire and respect to hold my cynical tongue about all the career conservatives and television flotsam …
TMZ.com:
Will Ferrell Involved in Serious Two-Car Accident, SUV Flipped Over  —  8:21 AM PT — Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... the SUV was sideswiped from the right rear by a Toyota, causing the SUV to spin and flip over.  We're told drugs and alcohol did not play a role in the accident.
Daniel Newhauser / National Journal:
Dems Prep a Plan if Rosenstein Is Fired  —  Top Democrats are increasingly concerned that President Trump will fire the deputy attorney general—but they don't want their colleagues to immediately call for impeachment.  —  Alex Rogers @AROGDC and  —  With rumors swirling that President Trump …
VICE News:
White nationalist Richard Spencer's pages just got kicked off Facebook  —  Two Facebook pages associated with white nationalist Richard Spencer have been kicked off the platform.  —  The outspoken white nationalist who coined the term “alt-right” and runs the National Policy Institute, had been operating in the open on Facebook.
Jim Norman / Gallup:
Trump Favorable Rating Dips  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's favorable rating, already low by historical standards, has dropped to 38% — while his unfavorable rating is at 59%.  —  This marks a dip in his favorable rating from 41% in December last year.
Los Angeles Times:
Patrick Soon-Shiong plans to move Los Angeles Times to new campus in El Segundo  —  The Los Angeles Times this summer will move from its historic art deco headquarters in downtown Los Angeles to a campus currently under construction in El Segundo.  —  Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong …
 
 
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Real or ‘Fake News’? Either way, lewd tape allegations pose a challenge for Trump
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New York Times:
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Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
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Asbury Park Press:
NJ Attorney General joins multistate DACA lawsuit against Trump
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
In a Leaked Memo, Apple Warns Employees to Stop Leaking Information
Christian Datoc / The Daily Caller:
Chris Wallace Surprised At ‘How B****y’ Comey's Book Is
Discussion: RedState and Louder With Crowder
Anjali Khosla / Fast Company:
Donald Trump Will Do Anything To Avoid Prosecution-And John Bolton Will Help
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Pro-Trump fundraising group refuses to give back $500,000 contribution from Steve Wynn
Ashley May / USA Today:
Teen with full ride to 20 colleges requests public apology from Fox affiliate in order to air interview
Discussion: theGrio
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Majorities back investigations of Trump from Russia to alleged hush money (POLL)