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Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Trump Undercuts Giuliani About Payments to Stormy Daniels — WASHINGTON — President Trump undercut his attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, on Friday, and said the former New York mayor will eventually get the facts right regarding a payment to a pornographic actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump.
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Jeffrey Toobin / CNN:
Rudy's interview and Trump's lies create a crisis — Jeffrey Toobin is CNN's chief legal analyst and author, most recently, of “American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst”, and “The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court.” Follow him on Twitter @JeffreyToobin.
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Rudy Giuliani goes from 'America's Mayor' to Trump's chump
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Daily Kos, The Daily Caller, The Guardian, The Western Journal and Media Matters for America
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Giuliani tries to clarify comments on Trump's reimbursement of payment to porn star Stormy Daniels
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FOX News Radio:
Rudy Giuliani: Michael Avenatti Is A Complete Jerk Who Should Turn In His Law License
NBC News:
Rudy Giuliani insists Trump wasn't aware of Stormy Daniels reimbursement until recently
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
The Media Is Killing the Democratic Party
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump walks back Giuliani: 'He'll get his facts straight'
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Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Trump's relationship with Giuliani gets rocky
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NBC News:
Democrats might have a better chance to flip the Senate than you think
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
MSNBC's Deutsch: Michael Cohen Told Me Giuliani 'Doesn't Know What He's Talking About'
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Federal judge in Virginia grills special counsel on Manafort investigation … A federal judge in Virginia on Friday grilled lawyers from the office of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III about the motivations for bringing a bank and tax fraud case against former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
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Jake Gibson / Fox News:
Federal judge accuses Mueller's team of ‘lying,’ trying to target Trump: 'C'mon man!' — Giuliani: Mueller investigation should be dismissed — A federal judge on Friday harshly rebuked Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team during a hearing for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort …
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CNN:
Judge in Manafort case says Mueller's aim is to hurt Trump — (CNN)A federal judge expressed deep skepticism Friday in the bank fraud case brought by special counsel Robert Mueller's office against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, at one point saying he believes that Mueller's motivation …
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Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed:
A Judge Questioned What Paul Manafort's Indictment Really Had To Do With Russia
Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
U.S. judge questions special counsel's powers in Manafort case
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Quinta Jurecic / New York Times:
A Cheat Sheet to the Trump Circus
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New York Times:
Viktor Vekselberg, Russian Billionaire, Was Questioned by Mueller's Investigators — WASHINGTON — When the United States sought to punish Russia last month for its election interference and other aggressions, it targeted some of Russia's wealthiest men, imposing sanctions on those viewed …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Pursuit of an Oval Office Meeting with Vladimir Putin — Inside the mystery behind the President's surprise invitation to Russia's leader, and his team's struggle to figure out what to do about it. — Late on Monday evening, the Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, started making calls to European allies.
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Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
Trump administration will end protections for 50,000 Hondurans living in U.S. since 1999 — More than 50,000 Hondurans who have been allowed to live and work in the United States since 1999 will have until January 2020 to leave the country or face deportation, the Department of Homeland Security …
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Dara Lind / Vox:
Trump tells 57,000 Hondurans who've lived in the US for 20 years to get out
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Department of Homeland Security:
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen Announcement on Temporary Protected Status for Honduras
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump administration to send 57,000 immigrants back to Honduras
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Mica Rosenberg / Reuters:
Trump administration moves to expel some 57,000 Hondurans
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Trump Administration Ends Protected Status for Thousands of Hondurans
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CNN, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Axios and The Guardian
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Pence doctor resigns after Jackson debacle — Vice President Mike Pence's physician has resigned, the latest fallout from the collapse of Ronny Jackson's nomination for secretary of Veterans Affairs. — Dr. Jennifer Peña, who like Jackson is a military physician detailed to the White House …
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Rick Rojas / New York Times:
Connecticut Court Reverses Murder Conviction of Michael Skakel — The Connecticut Supreme Court, in a surprising reversal of its own decision less than two years ago, ruled on Friday to vacate the conviction of Michael C. Skakel, who had been found guilty of bludgeoning his neighbor with a golf club in 1975.
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Matt Viser / BostonGlobe.com:
Kerry quietly seeking to salvage Iran deal he helped craft — WASHINGTON — John Kerry's bid to save one of his most significant accomplishments as secretary of state took him to New York on a Sunday afternoon two weeks ago, where, more than a year after he left office …
Jared Holt / Right Wing Watch:
Alex Jones: Trump Is Fighting A Computer Program That Has Decided To Kill Humans — Before Alex Jones headed to court to face his ex-wife today, he told Infowars listeners that President Trump is part of an effort to fight against a sentient computer program that has decided to kill all humans.
Molly Redden / HuffPost:
He Was Accused Of Attempted Rape. He Became A Progressive Star Anyway. — For more than a decade, women alleged that Clay Johnson, a leader in political tech, physically and verbally abused them. — On April 28, 2008, Sarah Schacht received an email that terrified her.
CNN:
Exclusive: Nunes demands Justice Department records. Then he doesn't read them. — (CNN)House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes was livid. — For months, he had been demanding a fully uncensored version of a highly sensitive document from the Justice Department explaining …
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German Lopez / Vox:
How to watch Trump's NRA speech, and what to expect — The president is speaking at the NRA's first annual meeting since the Parkland, Florida, shooting. — President Donald Trump will soon speak at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in Dallas.
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Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
‘I love fighting these battles’ Trump tells NRA after slamming special counsel investigation
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The Daily Beast:
Report: Qatar Just Bought $6.5M Apartment in Trump Property — Qatar's mission to the United Nations bought an apartment valued at $6.5 million in New York's Trump World Tower on Jan. 17, one month after a judge ruled that President Donald Trump was not violating the Emoluments Clause …
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Adam B. Schiff / New York Times:
Democrats: Don't Take the Bait on Impeachment — In 2010, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, I led the effort to impeach a federal judge from New Orleans named Thomas Porteous Jr. He was accused of multiple acts of corruption, some of which preceded his appointment to the federal bench …
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Washington Post:
Behind Erik Prince's China venture — The Blackwater founder has cut a lucrative security-training deal with Chinese insiders. But is it against U.S. interests? — Beijing's International Security Defense College, which boasts of becoming “the largest private security training school in China …
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Axios
New York Times:
Sex Abuse Scandal's Latest Casualty: The 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature — STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature, the world's most prestigious accolade for writing, will not be awarded this year, for the first time since 1949, as the fallout from a sexual abuse scandal that has battered …
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Allan Smith / Business Insider:
The Trump Organization just quietly announced it's collecting sales tax in a new state — weeks after Trump savaged Amazon over its policies — The update comes after President Donald Trump has attacked Amazon over the issue of sales tax collection. — The Trump Organization quietly updated …
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