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4:00 PM ET, April 14, 2018

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Laila Bassam / Reuters:
Pro-Assad official says targeted bases were evacuated on Russian warning  —  BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian government and its allies have absorbed a U.S.-led attack on Saturday and the targeted sites were evacuated days ago thanks to a warning from Russia, a senior official in a regional alliance that backs Damascus said.
Discussion: The Mahablog, The Atlantic and RedState
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Washington Post:
Damascus defiant as U.S. strikes prove more limited than feared … BEIRUT — Syria, Russia and Iran shrugged off strikes on Saturday by the United States and its allies against three Syrian chemical weapons facilities, which drew angry condemnations but no indication that there would be a wider escalation.
Discussion: TheBlaze, The Guardian and Splinter
New York Times:
U.S., Britain and France Strike Syria Over Suspected Chemical Weapons Attack  —  WASHINGTON — The United States and European allies launched airstrikes on Friday night against Syrian research, storage and military targets as President Trump sought to punish President Bashar al-Assad …
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Trump supporters slam decision to launch strikes against Syria  —  Prominent supporters of President Trump  —  are expressing skepticism over his decision to launch airstrikes against Syria, slamming the move as overly aggressive and unnecessary.  —  Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Axios AM  —  Subscribe  —  Good Saturday morning ...  1 big thing: Trump's “Mission Accomplished!”  —  President Trump tweeted this morning: “A perfectly executed strike last night.  Thank you to France and the United Kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine Military.
CNN:
Haley says US ‘locked and loaded,’ prepared to maintain pressure on Syria  —  New York (CNN)US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the United States was prepared to sustain its pressure on Syria after a night of military strikes meant to cripple the country's ability to use chemical weapons …
Discussion: IJR, Shareblue Media, KTLA and The Week
Henry C. Jackson / Politico:
Trump supporters rip decision to strike Syria
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
After Syria attack, U.S. and Russia tensions rise but fears ease of wider military confrontation
New York Times:   President Trump Talked Tough. But His Strike on Syria Was Restrained.
CNN:
As it happened: The strike and its aftermath
Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Trump: ‘Mission Accomplished’ on Syria
U.S. Department of Defense:
Assad Chemical Weapons
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Robin Wright / New Yorker:   Trump Strikes Syria Over Chemical Weapons
Paul Sonne / Washington Post:
Trump's strikes on Syria risk retaliation, escalation in a war he wants to avoid
Discussion: The Week and Daily Kos
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 …
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Michael Cohen's visiting Prague would be a huge development in the Russia investigation … McClatchy reported on Friday evening that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's team has evidence of a trip by President Trump's personal lawyer to Prague in the late summer of 2016.
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Real Investigation  —  The one in the Southern District of New York, involving Michael Cohen and apparent hush-money payoffs, is a serious peril for Trump.  —  President Trump now has real legal peril.  The potential jeopardy stems from the investigation that came to light this week …
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Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
Michael Cohen May Learn the Hard Way That There's No Such Thing As Consigliere-Client Privilege … Before he became President Trump's self-styled consigliere, Michael Cohen made a fortune in the taxi business.  —  So, he certainly had the means and the ability to have hopped a cab …
The Daily Beast:   Prosecutors Probing Michael Cohen Have Nailed Financial Frauds, Corrupt Pols, and Organized Crooks
WDRB 41 Louisville News:
VIDEO |  Gov. Bevin ‘guarantees’ children in Kentucky were ‘sexually assaulted’ as a result of Friday's school closure  —  FRANKFORT, Ky. (WDRB) - Somewhere in Kentucky children were sexually assaulted, exposed to drugs or hurt because schools were closed Friday as teachers across the state rallied …
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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Trump's miserable crew has never been so desperate  —  These are desperate times for the quislings of Trump.  The cost of collaborating with President Trump in the continued debasement of American democracy is becoming far too high.  Fifteen months into his presidency …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story and CNN
DOJ Alumni Statement:
DOJ Alumni Statement Regarding Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller, and the Rule of Law  —  We, the undersigned, are proud alumni of the United States Department of Justice.  We served this institution out of a commitment to the founding American principles that our democratic republic depends upon …
Ronald A. Klain / Washington Post:
The anti-anti-Trump cohort has a fatal flaw in its thinking  —  President Trump — shedding staff, shredding norms — remains defiant, with little evidence that his critics are persuading supporters to abandon him.  For some Trump opponents, this has led to new introspection about the effectiveness of “the resistance.”
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
Republicans lose their favorite campaign message: Repealing Obamacare  —  Michigan GOP Rep. Mike Bishop's campaign website doesn't mention Obamacare, even though Web archives show it once prominently featured promises to vigorously fight the 2010 health-care law.
Discussion: Axios
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
Kakistocracy, a 374-year-old word that means ‘government by the worst,’ just broke the dictionary … Today was a productive vocabulary day in the United States of America.  —  The learning began in the morning, when former CIA director John O. Brennan tweeted at President Trump …
Michael Cieply / New York Times:
Milos Forman, Oscar-Winning Director of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' Dies at 86  —  LOS ANGELES — Milos Forman, a filmmaker who challenged Hollywood with his subversive touch, and twice directed movies that won the Oscar for best picture, died on Friday.  He was 86.
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Gina Piccalo / Los Angeles Times:   Miloš Forman, Oscar-winning Czech director of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' dies at 86
Marcy Wheeler / New York Times:
Trump Pardoned Libby to Protect Himself From Mueller  —  “There is a cloud over the White House as to what happened.  Don't you think the F.B.I., the grand jury, the American people are entitled to a straight answer?”  —  With those words, uttered over a decade ago, Patrick Fitzgerald …
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Fox News Insider:
‘A Scapegoat’ for the Iraq War: Judith Miller Says Pardon of Scooter Libby ‘Long Overdue’
 
 
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