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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.
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CNN:
Giuliani: I'm ‘focused on the law more than the facts right now’ — (CNN)President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that he is still getting up to speed on the facts of the President's legal situation, but the payment to Stormy Daniels did not require him to have a full accounting of the details at hand.
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Politico:
Trump team makes the midterms about saving his presidency — The president has raised the spectre of impeachment in cautioning his party against letting the House, and even the Senate, fall into Democratic control. — Rudy Giuliani's revelation Sunday that he expects President Donald …
Reuters:
Giuliani suggests it's possible Michael Cohen paid off other women to stay silent about alleged affairs with Trump — President Donald Trump's new lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, didn't rule out the possibility that Michael Cohen paid other women during the 2016 campaign to stay quiet about alleged affairs with his client.
Emily Stewart / Vox:
Rudy Giuliani won't rule out Trump pleading the Fifth Amendment in another bewildering interview
Rudy Giuliani won't rule out Trump pleading the Fifth Amendment in another bewildering interview
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Stormy Daniels attorney: Giuliani interview an ‘unmitigated disaster’
Stormy Daniels attorney: Giuliani interview an ‘unmitigated disaster’
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Giuliani: It is possible Michael Cohen paid off other women for Trump
Giuliani: It is possible Michael Cohen paid off other women for Trump
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
SNL brings in Ben Stiller, Scarlett Johansson, Stormy Daniels and more for star-studded cold open
SNL brings in Ben Stiller, Scarlett Johansson, Stormy Daniels and more for star-studded cold open
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Erica Pandey / Axios:
Rudy's return to the television circuit
Rudy's return to the television circuit
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Naked Truth About Trump
The Naked Truth About Trump
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Victoria Guida / Politico:
Giuliani: Trump doesn't have to comply with potential Mueller subpoena
Giuliani: Trump doesn't have to comply with potential Mueller subpoena
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Washington Post:
Gina Haspel, nominee to head CIA, sought to withdraw over questions about her role in agency interrogation program — Gina Haspel, President Trump's nominee to become the next CIA director, sought to withdraw her nomination Friday after some White House officials worried that her role …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside Scott Pruitt's “miserable” bunker — President Trump is unhappy about a report in The Atlantic which says a member of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's press team has been shopping negative stories about Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to multiple outlets.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Republicans fear a Roy Moore redux in West Virginia — Republicans in D.C. are panicking over Tuesday's West Virginia Senate primary. — The problem: Don Blankenship, a coal baron who's spent time in prison, is running a demagogic campaign in which he's repeatedly invoked the Chinese heritage …
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Nicole Sganga / CBS News:
Don Blankenship won't rule out third party bid in West Virginia senate race
Don Blankenship won't rule out third party bid in West Virginia senate race
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Stunning Developments on Trump/Private Black Ops Oppo Targeting Obama Staffers — We have a pretty stunning development about aides to Donald Trump apparently (though they deny it) hiring the same Israeli dirty ops/private intel firm that Harvey Weinstein used to cover up his history to mount …
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Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Probe Might Have to Go Dark for Midterm Election — Though there is no legal deadline, Justice Department guidelines say prosecutors should avoid the appearance of trying to sway elections — WASHINGTON—The clock is ticking for special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Corey Kilgannon / New York Times:
96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2 Million — Even by the dizzying standards of New York City philanthropy, a recent $6.24 million donation to the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side was a whopper — the largest single gift from an individual to the social service group in its 125-year history.
Christopher Carbone / Fox News:
Devin Nunes: AG Jeff Sessions should be held in contempt of Congress — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes is going to push Congress to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress. — The Californian Republican's committee has been looking into allegations …
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Luis Sanchez / The Hill:
Nikki Haley says she won't defend Trump's ‘communication style’ — U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley — said on Sunday that she won't defend President Trump — 's “communication style.” — “First of all, he has his communication style,” Haley told CBS's “Sunday Morning.”
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Boris Johnson / New York Times:
Don't Scuttle the Iran Nuclear Deal — By 1931 Winston Churchill had fought more election battles than any other member of the British Parliament. He ruefully calculated that “one day in 30” of his adult life had been consumed by “arduous and worrying” campaigning.
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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.
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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
George Conway, Spouse of Top Trump Counselor, Takes White House to Task on Twitter. — WASHINGTON — In legal circles, George T. Conway III is perhaps best known as the lawyer who argued a securities case before the Supreme Court and won with an 8-to- vote, or for his behind-the-scenes work …
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Admiral Cuomo prepares for war — Is truth stranger than fiction? Usually not, if the author of fiction tries to write something strange. However, the second paragraph of this report by my conservative cousin from New York is both true and stranger than fiction:
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Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
North Korea says US ruining mood of detente ahead of summit — PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — With just weeks to go before President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are expected to hold their first-ever summit, Pyongyang on Sunday criticized what it called “misleading” …
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