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Wall Street Journal:
David Pecker Granted Immunity in Cohen Case — Federal prosecutors granted immunity to David Pecker, CEO of the company that publishes the National Enquirer and a longtime friend of President Trump, in the Michael Cohen investigation.
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“Holy Shit, I Thought Pecker Would Be the Last One to Turn”: Trump's National Enquirer Allies Are the Latest to Defect — David Pecker and Dylan Howard corroborated Michael Cohen's account implicating the president in a federal crime. And Cohen's lawyer Lanny Davis says there are more revelations to come.
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Jeff Horwitz / Associated Press:
AP: National Enquirer's safe held damaging Trump stories — NEW YORK (AP) — The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to 2016 presidential election …
New York Times:
David Pecker, American Media Chief, Is Said to Have Immunity in Trump Inquiry — The tabloid executive David J. Pecker has been granted immunity by federal prosecutors investigating payments during the 2016 campaign to two women who said they had affairs with Donald J. Trump …
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Alexandra Hutzler / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Just Admitted to a Federal Crime in ‘Fox & Friends’ Interview, Obama Ethics Chief Says
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Michael Cohen told Congress he doesn't know if Trump knew about Russia meeting
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CNBC:
National Enquirer boss and longtime Trump friend David Pecker gets federal immunity in Michael Cohen case
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed News:
David Pecker Was Granted Immunity. Prosecutors Say He Knows About Three Key Moments In Trump's Campaign.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Cohen's admission doesn't mean Trump is guilty, legal experts say
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Washington Post:
Trump sought his lawyers' advice weeks ago on possibility of pardoning Manafort but they counseled against it, Giuliani says — President Trump sought his lawyers' advice several weeks ago on the possibility of pardoning Manafort, Trump attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani said Thursday.
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Sky News:
Rudy Giuliani: Impeaching Trump would mean 'people's revolt' — Donald Trump's lawyer has said “the American people would revolt” if the president was impeached. — In an interview with Sky News Rudy Giuliani claimed there was “no reason” for an impeachment and called Mr Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen “a liar”.
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Trump sought his lawyers' advice weeks ago on possibility of pardoning Manafort, Giuliani says — President Trump asked his lawyers for their advice on the possibility of pardoning his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort several weeks ago, his lawyer said Thursday.
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Salena Zito / New York Post:
Why Trump's supporters won't care about Cohen and Manafort's convictions — ZANESVILLE, OH — Last week, a woman in her mid-40s who lives in a tidy suburban enclave just outside of Columbus, Ohio, summed up her continued support for President Donald Trump despite his morals …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Let's play softball: Read all 18 questions Fox News asked Trump — Stelter: Fox & Friends is a Trump infomercial — Fox News, the favored network of President Trump, has had 30 interviews with him since inauguration day. This week's sit-down may have been the most important one yet, given the increasing legal peril Trump is in.
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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The American Obsession With Donald Trump's Mood
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Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg:
Key Republicans Give Trump a Path to Fire Sessions After the Election — Sessions defends his performance in advancing Trump's agenda — A new attorney general could take control of the Mueller probe — Two key Republican senators signaled to President Donald Trump …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Sessions defends himself from President Trump's criticism, saying the Justice Department …
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Tells Sessions He Favors Death Penalty for Fentanyl Dealers
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New Republic
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo:
White House blocks bill that would protect elections — WASHINGTON — A bill that would have significantly bolstered the nation's defenses against electoral interference has been held up in the — Senate at the behest of the White House, which opposed the proposed legislation, according to congressional sources.
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Fox News:
Manafort juror reveals lone holdout prevented Mueller team from convicting on all counts — NORTHERN VIRGINIA - Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team was one holdout juror away from convicting Paul Manafort on all 18 counts of bank and tax fraud, juror Paula Duncan told Fox News in an exclusive interview Wednesday.
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Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Manafort juror Paula Duncan: Manafort is guilty, but Mueller probe is a witch hunt
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New Yorker:
The Conspiracy Memo Aimed at Obama Aides that Circulated in the Trump White House — The 2017 document, titled the “Echo Chamber,” accused former Obama officials of undermining the incoming Administration. — In early 2017, some of Donald Trump's advisers concluded that they faced …
CBS News:
Reality Winner, who pleaded guilty to leaking secret U.S. report, gets 63-month sentence — AUGUSTA, Ga. — A former government contractor who pleaded guilty to mailing a classified U.S. report to a news organization was sentenced to more than five years Thursday as part of a deal with prosecutors …
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Trevor Timm / The Intercept:
The Government's Argument that Reality Winner Harmed National Security Doesn't Hold Up. Here's Why.
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Reuters:
Inside the progressive movement roiling the Democratic Party — Frustrated by a string of defeats at the polls, a progressive wing of the Democratic Party pushes a populist platform across the country. Amid wins and losses, the movement aims to reshape a party in flux.
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RealClearInvestigations:
Despite Comey Assurances, Vast Bulk of Weiner Laptop Emails Were Never Examined — When then-FBI Director James Comey announced he was closing the Hillary Clinton email investigation for a second time just days before the 2016 election, he certified to Congress that his agency had …
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Instapundit and Real Clear Politics
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CNN:
Some of Mollie Tibbetts' family don't want her death politicized — (CNN)Some relatives of Mollie Tibbetts are pushing back against politicians who are blaming the country's immigration system for the Iowa college student's death. — A body believed to be Tibbetts' was found in Iowa on Tuesday …
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New York Times:
Trump Cites False Claims of Widespread Attacks on White Farmers in South Africa — CAPE TOWN, South Africa — President Trump waded into South Africa's proposal to seize land from white farmers, saying in a post on Twitter late Wednesday that he had asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to …
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Bloomberg:
Will the Market Crash If Trump Is Impeached? Here's What Analysts Say — Combined profit in the S&P 500 has soared under his policies — Question is whether any of that would be lost if he were gone — How seriously should people take Donald Trump's claim that stocks would crash if he were kicked out of office?
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump declares ‘market would crash’ if Democrats impeached him
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Laura Olson / Morning Call:
Pat Toomey's campaign email accounts targeted by foreign hackers — Signs for Sen. Pat Toomey's re-election campaign, shown in a 2016 file photo. (MATT SMITH / SPECIAL TO THE MORNING CALL) — Privacy Policy — The latest public official to be targeted by foreign hackers? Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey.
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Roll Call
Ben Kamisar / NBC News:
Poll: Pennsylvanians give low marks to Trump and tariffs — Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and Democratic Sen. Bob Casey both hold double-digit leads over lesser-known opponents in new NBC News/Marist poll. — WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania, a state that helped put President Donald Trump in the White House …
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Political Wire and CNBC
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Wants to Ban Flipping Because He Is Almost Literally a Mob Boss — Last November, a person close to the Trump administration speaking to the Washington Post invoked a chilling metaphor. “This investigation is a classic Gambino-style roll-up,” the source said.
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump speechwriter's ouster sparks racially charged debate — It took just 80 minutes after racially incendiary emails started flying for the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank, to shut down an email Listserv connecting hundreds of high-profile conservatives.
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