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11:50 PM ET, May 4, 2018

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New York Times:
Trump Is Said to Know of Stormy Daniels Payment Months Before He Denied It  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump knew about a six-figure payment that Michael D. Cohen, his personal lawyer, made to a pornographic film actress several months before he denied any knowledge of it to reporters aboard Air Force …
Discussion: Mediaite, Political Wire and Raw Story
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Probes Cohen Over Cash He Built Up During Campaign  —  Trump's lawyer took out lines of credit to secure access to as much as $774,000 as race heated up  —  Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, gained access to as much as $774,000 through two financial transactions during …
Jacqueline Alemany / CBS News:
Trump booked himself for his first TV interview in months  —  Last week, on his wife's birthday, President Donald Trump appeared on Fox News' “Fox and Friends” for a freewheeling phone interview — his first TV interview in months — where he made news on a variety of topics.
Discussion: Mediaite
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Rudy Giuliani has hit rock bottom … To be a prelapsarian conservative in America today — as that creed was understood before 2016 — means getting used to heartbreak.  One after another, conservatives that I have admired and respected — Paul D. Ryan, Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Bill Bennett …
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Trump Undercuts Giuliani About Payments to Stormy Daniels
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Turns to Outsiders, Not White House Staff, for Key Advice
Discussion: Political Wire
Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:
Rudy Giuliani goes from 'America's Mayor' to Trump's chump
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Guardian
FOX News Radio:   Rudy Giuliani: Michael Avenatti Is A Complete Jerk Who Should Turn In His Law License
Politico:
Full text: Rudy Giuliani issues statement clarifying his earlier remarks
Jeffrey Toobin / CNN:   Rudy's interview and Trump's lies create a crisis
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
2 F.B.I. Officials, Once Key Advisers to Comey, Leave the Bureau  —  WASHINGTON — Two top F.B.I. aides who worked alongside the former director James B. Comey as he navigated one of the most politically tumultuous periods in the bureau's history resigned on Friday.
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
2 former advisers to Comey leave FBI
Discussion: New York Times
Rod Boyce / Fairbanks Daily News-Miner:
Murkowski: Mueller should follow Russia inquiry ‘wherever it takes him’  —  FAIRBANKS - Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski said this week that the Russia investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller III should be allowed to proceed to its natural end and that she would support legislation approved …
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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 …
Angie Drobnic Holan / PolitiFact:
Donald Trump's NRA speech, fact-checked
Discussion: RedState
CNN:
Judge in Manafort case says Mueller's aim is to hurt Trump
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Federal judge in Virginia grills special counsel on Manafort investigation
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Shakesville
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Judge Questions Whether Mueller Has Overstepped His Authority on Manafort
Discussion: CNN
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 …
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Washington Post:
Trump thinks his North Korea strategy will work on Iran. He's wrong on both.
Discussion: Vox, Foreign Policy and Axios
Max Greenwood / The Hill:   Kerry making quiet play to save Iran deal with foreign leaders: report
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
Fox News:
House Intel report: Comey testified FBI agents saw no ‘physical indications of deception’ by Flynn  —  Former FBI Director James Comey testified to the House Intelligence Committee that FBI agents did not believe that Michael Flynn, who was national security adviser, intentionally lied …
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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 …
Discussion: Mediaite and Washington Monthly
Byron York / Washington Examiner:   Comey told lawmakers FBI agents saw ‘no physical indications of deception’ in Michael Flynn
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.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Washington Post:
As a willing warrior for Trump, Sarah Sanders struggles to maintain credibility  —  The West Wing shouting match was so loud that more than a dozen staffers heard it.  —  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders cursed and yelled at White House counsel Donald McGahn during …
Discussion: Mediaite and MSNBC
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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John Harwood / CNBC:
Most voters have become numb to each new Trump scandal because they don't believe what he says anyway  — Most Americans have considered Trump dishonest throughout his time in office.  They judge his character indecent.  But that no longer drives change in their judgments of his presidency.
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 …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
BREAKING: Embattled FBI Lawyer Lisa Page Has Resigned  —  The FBI attorney who exchanged anti-Trump text messages with another bureau official resigned on Friday, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.  —  The FBI confirmed that the lawyer, Lisa Page, tendered her resignation.
Discussion: Townhall
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Hey, Republicans: Pelosi attack ads may not be enough to keep the House … THE BIG IDEA: Republicans have been banking on a strategy of tying Democratic candidates to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to save their majority.  But some GOP strategists …
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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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John Bowden / The Hill:
Pruitt had travel wish list and asked staff to find ‘official’ reasons to go: report  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt  —  , when he joined the EPA, drew up a list of his preferred travel destinations and told his staff to find official reasons for him to travel …
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and HuffPost
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.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Mueller seeks delay in case alleging Russians interfered in U.S. presidential election  —  Prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller's office are seeking to delay the first court hearing in a criminal case charging three Russian companies and 13 Russian citizens with using social media …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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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Philip Shenon / Politico:
Trump's Lawyer Went to the Worst Law School in America
Discussion: The Week, Above the Law and Jezebel
Ted Cruz / Dallas Morning News:
Freedom only exists if citizens have the means to defend it
Discussion: CNN and The Daily Caller
Eric Worrall / Watts Up With That?:
Study: Greens Believe they have a “Moral License” to Pollute
Discussion: Power Line
Michael Isaac Stein / The Lens:
Actors were paid to support Entergy's power plant at New Orleans City Council meetings
CNN:
American Muslims  —  We asked American Muslims to name …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Benjy Egel / Sacramento Bee:
Revolutionary data: California tops U.K., now world's fifth-largest economy
Discussion: American Greatness
Cardiff Garcia / NPR:
Worker Shortage Hurts California's Agriculture Industry
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
 Earlier Items: 
Ryan Cooper / The Week:
It's time to normalize Karl Marx
Discussion: bradford-delong.com
Allan Smith / Business Insider:
The Trump Organization just quietly announced it's collecting sales tax in a new state …
Discussion: Politico
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Trump: Troop withdrawal from South Korea ‘not on the table’
Discussion: Breitbart, Politico, RedState and Axios
The Daily Beast:
Report: Qatar Just Bought $6.5M Apartment in Trump Property
Discussion: The Guardian
Washington Post:
Behind Erik Prince's China venture
Discussion: Axios
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
A look at the challenges facing Crunchyroll, as current and ex-staffers say its management is out of touch, amid Disney and Netflix's expansion into anime

Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

 
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