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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Giuliani: Trump Could Have Shot Comey And Still Couldn't Be Indicted For It — Congress would have to impeach Trump first before any criminal prosecution could move forward, the president's lawyer says. — WASHINGTON Candidate Donald Trump bragged that he could shoot someone …
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Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
President Trump ‘probably does’ have the power to pardon himself: Giuliani — President Trump's lead attorney said the president “probably does” have the power to pardon himself. — Rudy Giuliani was discussing with ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” …
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Giuliani calls it ‘unthinkable’ that Trump would pardon himself — President Trump's attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani publicly pressed Trump's expansive view of executive power this weekend, arguing on two Sunday TV shows that the president probably has the sweeping constitutional authority to pardon even himself.
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POLITICUSUSA, BuzzFeed and Wall Street Journal
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Giuliani: Even if Trump had shot Comey he still couldn't be indicted for it
Giuliani: Even if Trump had shot Comey he still couldn't be indicted for it
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The Week
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Trump's legal memo to Robert Mueller is a recipe for tyranny
Trump's legal memo to Robert Mueller is a recipe for tyranny
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Booman Tribune
Harry Litman / New York Times:
President Trump Thinks He Is a King
President Trump Thinks He Is a King
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RedState, Philly.com, New York Daily News and Raw Story
David Kris / Lawfare:
The Trump Legal Team's Remarkable Letter to Mueller
The Trump Legal Team's Remarkable Letter to Mueller
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emptywheel, Common Dreams, AOL and The Mahablog
John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump has spent more visiting Mar-a-Lago than Mueller has on Russia probe
Trump has spent more visiting Mar-a-Lago than Mueller has on Russia probe
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Hullabaloo and infowars.com
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Michael Cohen's secret dream — On election night 2016, shortly after Donald Trump's team realized he would win the presidency, Michael Cohen told a handful of people on the 14th floor of Trump Tower about his own dreams for the future — to be mayor of New York.
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Mediaite
CBS News:
Bill Clinton and James Patterson co-author a political beach read — A political thriller has to convincingly blend both fact and fiction, which is just what a certain debut novelist with plenty of White House experience says he has to offer. He and his writing partner are talking with Mo Rocca:
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Janet Maslin / New York Times:
Bill Clinton and James Patterson Team Up to Imagine a True Fantasy: Sane Politics
Bill Clinton and James Patterson Team Up to Imagine a True Fantasy: Sane Politics
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twitchy.com
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Bill Clinton says impeachment process over Russia probe would be underway if Democrat were in office
Bill Clinton says impeachment process over Russia probe would be underway if Democrat were in office
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RedState
Mark Moore / New York Post:
Clinton: ‘Impeachment hearings would have begun’ for a Dem president
Clinton: ‘Impeachment hearings would have begun’ for a Dem president
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The Daily Caller
Reuters:
North Korea's top three military officials replaced, U.S. official says — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea's top three military officials have been removed from their posts, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday, as U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un prepare to meet on June 12 in Singapore.
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Yonhap News Agency and The Daily Caller
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CNN:
Trump's man with the Singapore plan: Joe Hagin — (CNN)In the early days of the Iraq War, the director of the Secret Service was summoned to the White House Situation Room for a meeting with Joe Hagin, then serving as President George W. Bush's operations chief.
Lee Jeong-Ho / Politico:
Why U.N. sanctions did not bring North Korea to the summit table
Why U.N. sanctions did not bring North Korea to the summit table
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Politico and South China Morning Post
Katherine Lam / Fox News:
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to visit Kim Jong Un in North Korea, state media says
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to visit Kim Jong Un in North Korea, state media says
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The Daily Caller
Chris Tomlinson / Breitbart:
Trump's Right Hand Man in Europe Rick Grenell Wants To ‘Empower’ European Conservatives — BERLIN, Germany: Trumpian U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell has expressed great excitement over the wave of conservatism in Europe, saying he wants to “empower” leaders of the movement.
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CNBC, HuffPost and Joe.My.God.
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CBS News:
CBS News Battleground Tracker: The House is a toss-up — Dems 219- Reps 216 in tight contest for control — In the race for Congress, most polls report one national percentage for Democrats and Republicans. But that's not very helpful - because this is a race for seats. 435 of them, in fact.
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Splinter, New York Magazine, POLITICUSUSA and The Daily Caller
Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
First lady Melania Trump will not join President Trump on G7, Singapore summits — First lady Melania Trump will not be joining President Donald Trump on his upcoming trips to the G7 summit in Quebec and the highly anticipated summit between the United States and North Korea in Singapore, her spokeswoman told ABC News.
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Political Wire, Mediaite, Breitbart, HuffPost, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Raw Story
Dion Nissenbaum / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Weighs Expanding Military Role in Yemen War — United Arab Emirates seeks direct U.S. help to capture Red Sea port from Iran-backed Houthi fighters — WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is weighing an appeal from the United Arab Emirates for direct U.S. support to seize Yemen's main port …
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The American Conservative
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Devin Nunes warns Google may need to testify if anti-GOP search results keep showing up — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said on Sunday there may be a need for Google to testify after the company's search engine showed results linking Republicans to “Nazism.”
Mark Osborne / ABC News:
FBI agent accidentally shoots bar patron when gun falls out of holster while dancing — An FBI agent got himself into an embarrassing situation on Saturday when his service weapon fell out of its holster while dancing at a Denver club and he accidentally shot a fellow patron while retrieving it.
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Oscar Contreras / TheDenverChannel.com:
Denver Police investigating accidental shooting from gun of an off-duty FBI agent
Denver Police investigating accidental shooting from gun of an off-duty FBI agent
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Washington Post, NPR, Mediaite, The Root and Raw Story
David / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Virginia Democratic Candidate Stomps Pete Hegseth In Train Wreck Interview: ‘Change Is Coming’ — Fox News host Pege Hegseth on Sunday came out on the losing side of an interview with Virginia candidate for U.S. House Dan Helmer (D). — In a Sunday interview on Fox & Friends …
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Hullabaloo
Derek Hunter / Townhall:
Liberals (Once Again) Exempt Themselves from the Rules — Imagine a scenario in which a woman posts a picture of herself with her son and people simply appreciate the expression of parental love. Sounds nice, and rational, doesn't it? Unfortunately, thanks to the liberal mob, nice and rational no longer exist in the public arena.
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The Daily Caller and Instapundit
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Samantha Bee will address vulgar comment about Ivanka Trump on her show
Samantha Bee will address vulgar comment about Ivanka Trump on her show
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TheBlaze, twitchy.com and Mediaite
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's 500-day coup of the GOP, conservatism — Donald Trump has been President Trump for 500 days as of noon today. Jonathan Swan writes that everything has changed, and nothing has changed. — Be smart: In 500 days, Trump's hijacking of the formerly conservative GOP is complete — an astonishing accomplishment.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Behind closed doors: Republicans worry tax reform won't save GOP — In mid May, senior House Republican officials huddled at the Hyatt on the Chesapeake Bay to discuss their messaging plan to save the House majority. — One of their guest speakers was the well-respected election forecaster Charlie Cook …
Mike Memoli / NBC News:
Joe Biden steams into midterm campaigns as 2020 question looms — WASHINGTON — There are two questions Joe Biden just can't avoid most days: When can you campaign for me? And what are you doing in 2020? — The former vice president already has been one of the most active Democratic surrogates …
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
GOP candidates echo Trump on immigration as president transforms party in his image — Leading Republican candidates are depicting many undocumented immigrants as criminals and endorsing a proposed wall on the Mexican border, adopting President Trump's hard-line stance and alarming some who fear …
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Political Wire