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10:15 AM ET, May 6, 2018

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Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani won't rule out that president could take the Fifth Amendment in Russia probe  —  President Donald Trump's top personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said he can't rule out the possibility of the president taking the Fifth Amendment if he testifies in the Russia investigation.
Discussion: Political Wire and Joe.My.God.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Naked Truth About Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Before I get to America's Mayor and America's Nightmare, I would like to say this:  —  Michelle Wolf was right when she turned a gimlet eye on the media.  —  “You guys are obsessed with Trump,” the comedian said at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Discussion: The Daily Beast, Vanity Fair and AOL
Associated Press:
Trump attorney not ruling out his taking the 5th Amendment  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's new attorney won't rule out the possibility that the president would assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in the swirling Russia investigation.
The Guardian:
Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal  —  Israeli agency told to find incriminating material on Obama diplomats who negotiated deal with Tehran  —  Aides to Donald Trump, the US president, hired an Israeli private intelligence agency to orchestrate a “dirty ops” …
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Haaretz:   Kerry Met With Iranian Foreign Minister in Bid to Save Nuclear Deal, Report Says
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
McCain says he regrets picking Palin as running mate  —  (R-Ariz.) said he regrets choosing former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) to be his running mate during the 2008 presidential campaign.  —  The New York Times reported on Saturday that McCain, while still defending Palin's performance …
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Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
McCain doesn't want Trump at funeral, friends tell White House  —  WASHINGTON — People close to Sen. John McCain have told the White House that the ailing Arizona Republican does not want President Donald Trump to attend his funeral and would like Vice President Mike Pence to come instead …
Frank Bruni / New York Times:   John McCain Battles Donald Trump With His Dying Breaths
Benjamin Hart / New York Magazine:
John McCain Regrets His Palin Pick for the Wrong Reasons
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Blankenship surging on eve of West Virginia Senate primary  —  There is growing concern among Republicans that Don Blankenship, a bombastic coal baron who has spent time in prison, is surging ahead of Tuesday's West Virginia Senate primary — and a last-minute campaign is underway to stop him.
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Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Early GOP primaries shaping up as rightward march with Trump
Discussion: RedState and Political Wire
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
This Is The Toughest Gun Law In America  —  Reformers love what Massachusetts is doing.  The NRA?  Not so much.  —  NEWTON, Mass. A thirtysomething man sought to buy a rifle here last September, and if he had been living in almost any other part of the country, he could have done so easily.
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
WATCH: MSNBC segment explodes after Dershowitz calls lawyer Richard Painter ‘un-American and a liar’  —  Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz was shut down on MSNBC Saturday after launching a bizarre tirade against former chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter.
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Garry Kasparov / New York Daily News:
Saving America from itself: Trump is a symptom, not the disease  —  American friends, you might not like to hear this coming from a Russian, but your Founding Fathers did not trust you at all.  Don't feel bad, because that most remarkable constellation of 18th-century intellect and courage didn't trust anyone.
Greg B. Smith / New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Former NYC media player finds himself living in homeless shelter after life took ‘unfathomable’ downward spiral  —  Once upon a time in New York City, Sherman Jackson lived at the glittering heights of public life in a privileged place of bold-faced names and media stars.
Anna Sanders / New York Post:
Rosie O'Donnell's campaign donations to Dems went over legal limit  —  Rosie O'Donnell made illegally over-sized campaign donations to at least five Democratic federal candidates, according to a Post analysis of campaign filings.  —  The liberal comedian has regularly broken Federal Election …
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Trump's coming war on Mueller: ANALYSIS  —  With the shakeup of the president's legal team, he is now all-in on a new strategy to deal with special counsel Robert Mueller: fight, delay, vilify.  —  The legal strategy dovetails with the Trump team's political strategy: rallying the base …
Salena Zito / New York Post:
The 2016 election was far from a fluke  —  America's political experts got it wrong in 2016 — not because they took too few polls, but because they made the false assumption that American elections are immune to societal change.  —  They are, in large part, still getting things wrong …
Discussion: twitchy.com
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
SNL brings in Ben Stiller, Scarlett Johansson, Stormy Daniels and more for star-studded cold open … Now, that was a cold open.  —  Ben Stiller, Martin Short, Jimmy Fallon, Scarlett Johansson, Alec Baldwin and Stormy Daniels herself all showed up for one of the more star-studded cold opens …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Week
Diane Lederman / Union-News:
Police report describes footage of woman slashing Hadley bus passengers' throats  —  HADLEY - After the woman charged with slashing two passengers and the driver of a Pioneer Valley Transit Authority bus was handcuffed and read her rights, she apologized.  —  “I'm so sorry, I don't know what came …
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Vianna Davila / The Seattle Times:
Fury, frustration erupt over Seattle's proposed head tax for homelessness services  —  A day after Amazon's surprise announcement regarding a proposed new business tax for homelessness services, flare-ups of opposition show deep frustration with Seattle's handling of the crisis.
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Carville: Clinton unlikely to run again but she's ‘always gotten the most votes’  —  Democratic strategist James Carville says that Hillary Clinton  —  is unlikely to seek political office again, but remarked that “she's never run an election where she didn't get the most votes.”
Discussion: Political Wire
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
Trump callously plays games with families of hostages: ‘Stay tuned!’  —  Like a deranged showman, Trump is turning hostage negotiations with North Korea into a high-stakes reality show.  —  As the White House works to secure the release of three Americans held hostage by North Korea …
Discussion: NBC News and Talking Points Memo
Bill Cummings / Connecticut Post:
Popular vote for president passes General Assembly  —  HARTFORD — The General Assembly on Saturday agreed to join a compact with 10 other states to use the national popular vote to elect a president.  —  “When you change our system, it takes thoughtful debate and moments when people …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
 
 
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Franklin Graham: Trump's Affair with Stormy Daniels is “Nobody's Business”
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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