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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Trump sounds off on FBI report: “Doesn't get any lower than that!”  —  President Trump is sounding off on the Justice Department's inspector general report, released Thursday, about the FBI's conduct in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election.  —  FBI Agent Peter Strzok …
Discussion: CNN and Jamie Dupree - AJC
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James Comey / New York Times:
This Report Says I Was Wrong.  But That's Good for the F.B.I.  —  The Department of Justice's independent watchdog, the inspector general, has released a report that is critical of my decisions as F.B.I. director during the investigation of Hillary Clinton's email account.
Eric Felten / Weekly Standard:
Meet the Other Amorous FBI Staffers Who Texted About the Clinton Email Investigation  —  Parsing the Inspector General's report.  —  Criticism of James Comey is nothing new—it's one of the few things that both Republicans and Democrats can agree on.  Which made the headline takeaway …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Power Line
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Report's Real Message: Trump Is Lying  —  The new report from the Justice Department's watchdog covers a lot of ground.  It runs more than 500 pages and evaluates investigations that touch both President Trump and Hillary Clinton.  As a result, some of the initial news coverage …
Lawfare:
Nine Takeaways From the Inspector General's Report on the Clinton Email Investigation  —  It is perhaps not a surprise that the Justice Department inspector general's report on the FBI's handling of the Clinton email investigation quickly became, for all sides, vindication for the narratives they already believed.
Discussion: CNN and Fox News
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
IG refers five FBI employees for investigation, as more anti-Trump messages revealed  —  Strzok, Page wanted to undermine then-candidate Trump: Chris Farrell  —  The Justice Department inspector general has referred five FBI employees for investigation in connection with politically charged texts …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
‘Viva Le Resistance’: Mueller Team Attorney Sent Anti-Trump Texts
John Harwood / CNBC:   Inspector general's report on FBI's Clinton email investigation discredits yet another Deep State conspiracy theory
Josh Campbell / CNN:
The FBI got swamped by a 500-year flood
New York Times:   The Report on the F.B.I.'s Clinton Investigation Is 500 Pages. Our Experts Broke It Down.
Washington Post:
IG report criticizes Comey's handling of Clinton probe, includes anti-Trump exchanges among FBI personnel
Washington Post:
'Why can't we just do it?':  Trump nearly upended summit with abrupt changes  —  Some of the most intense drama surrounding President Trump's summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un came not across the negotiating table, but in the days and hours leading up to Tuesday's historic meeting …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“There's No Stopping Him”: Trump Insists on a Putin Summit  —  After Singapore, the President is pressing ahead with the meeting that he's always wanted.  —  Fresh off his closely watched Singapore summit with the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, President Trump is pushing his team …
Discussion: Politico
Axios:
Scoop: Classified Israeli report raises doubts over Trump-Kim summit  —  A classified report from Israel's foreign ministry raises doubts over President Trump's optimistic statements about his summit with Kim Jong-un, and determines the U.S. retreated from its positions on several issues relating to North Korea's nuclear program.
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McCain: Trump halting Korean military exercises a ‘bad negotiating tactic’  —  (Ariz.) blasted the Trump administration's decision to halt military exercises with South Korea as part of the ongoing negotiations with North Korea.  —  “Suspending U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises is a mistake.
Associated Press:
Trump approves plan to impose tough China tariffs
Discussion: Axios and One America News Network
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:   Trump Does It His Way  —  In February, then-secretary …
John Bowden / The Hill:
North Korea state TV airs footage of Trump saluting North Korean military officer
Discussion: CNN and Wall Street Journal
Washington Post:
In defense of separating immigrant families, Sessions cites same Bible passage used to defend slavery  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions used a Bible verse on Thursday to defend his department's policy of prosecuting everyone who crosses the border from Mexico, suggesting that God supports …
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NBC News:
Trump admin will house migrant kids in tents in Tornillo, Texas  —  The Trump administration has selected a border facility near El Paso to build a tent city with 450 beds for migrant children.  —  BROWNSVILLE, Texas — The Trump administration has selected Tornillo, Texas …
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Sessions cites Bible in defense of breaking up families, blames migrant parents
Salvador Rizzo / Washington Post:
Recidivism Watch: Trump administration again blames others for its own family separation policy
Discussion: The Week
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
White House Capitol Hill Envoy to Leave Post, Citing ‘Diminishing Returns’  —  Legislative affairs director Marc Short's tenure was marked by ups and downs of pushing Trump agenda  —  WASHINGTON—The White House's top liaison to Capitol Hill will leave the job as early as this summer …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:   Trump Assistant Spokeswoman Latest to Leave White House
Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Sarah Sanders makes disastrous, ill-informed attempt to defend Trump's family separation policy
Wall Street Journal:
Prosecutors Investigating Michael Cohen for Possible Illegal Lobbying  —  Manhattan prosecutors have contacted AT&T, Novartis over dealings with Donald Trump's lawyer  —  Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating whether Michael Cohen, the longtime personal lawyer for Donald Trump …
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Jeff Pegues / CBS News:   Exclusive: Michael Cohen believes Trump and his allies are turning on him
Politico:
Giuliani: Mueller probe should be suspended ‘tomorrow’  —  President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said Thursday evening that special counsel Robert Mueller's probe should be suspended and Friday is the last chance for Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to “redeem themselves.”
Discussion: New Republic and Breitbart
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Giuliani Calls for Mueller's Suspension, Criticizes Top Justice Department Officials
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Top White House communications aide has history of rhetoric strongly critical of Trump  —  Mercedes Schlapp, the White House's director of strategic communications, posted a number of tweets in 2015 strongly critical of Donald Trump and his agenda, assailing the then-presidential candidate …
The Daily Beast:
Defense Contractors Cashing In On Immigrant Kids' Detention … Separating refugee and immigrant children from their parents isn't just an emotionally wrenching policy.  It's an enterprise that is benefitting intelligence and defense contractors.  —  Those contractors—including …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Cohen lawyer seeks gag order against Avenatti  —  The judge is asked to block the ‘media circus.’  —  Attorney Michael Avenatti's months-long publicity tour attacking President Donald Trump and Trump attorney Michael Cohen could be brought to an abrupt end soon if a federal judge agrees …
Discussion: Political Wire
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MJ Lee / CNN:
Michael Cohen seeks restraining order to stop Stormy Daniels' lawyer from speaking to the press
Discussion: Washington Times and Mediaite
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump's tariffs are already backfiring  —  Before steel and aluminum tariffs alienated our allies, before President Trump suggested car imports threatened our “national security,” before that 1,000-plus-item list of Chinese goods targeted for new tariffs, there were washing machines.
Jesse Drucker / New York Times:
How the I.R.S. Could Punish Trump and His Foundation  —  The New York attorney general sued President Trump and his foundation on Thursday.  But his bigger problem might be with the Internal Revenue Service.  —  The lawsuit accused Mr. Trump and three of his children of using …
Kate Irby / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Senate now open to considering House immigration plan  —  WASHINGTON  —  Republican senators who previously said immigration was a dead issue said Thursday the House immigration plan drafted by House Speaker Paul Ryan could get a vote in their chamber.  —  “If the House passes something …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Kelsey Snell / NPR:   House GOP Immigration Bill Would End Family Separation At Border
 
 
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John Koblin / New York Times:
NBC names Craig Melvin as Hoda Kotb's successor on Today, teaming up with Savannah Guthrie, starting January 13; Melvin has been Today's news anchor since 2018

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