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Washington Post:
‘Siege warfare’: Republican anxiety spikes as Trump faces growing legal and political perils — A growing number of Republicans fear that a battery of new revelations in the far-reaching Russia investigation has dramatically heightened the legal and political danger to Donald Trump's presidency …
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Raw Story, Spectator USA, Outside the Beltway and Joe.My.God.
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New York Times:
John Kelly, Trump's Chief of Staff, to Leave White House — WASHINGTON — John F. Kelly, the retired Marine general tapped as chief of staff by President Trump last year to bring order to his chaotic White House, will leave the job by the end of the year, Mr. Trump said on Saturday …
Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Kelly exit helps position Trump for 2020 — President Donald Trump's Saturday confirmation that chief of staff John Kelly will soon leave the White House signaled more than the end of a tortured relationship. It was the latest sign of Trump's singular focus on his 2020 re-election campaign.
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Political Wire, The Guardian, The Daily Beast and One America News Network
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
John Kelly Couldn't Fix the Trump Presidency — White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, who served as Donald Trump's top adviser for more than a year but repeatedly clashed with the president, will leave the administration “toward the end of the year,” Trump said on Saturday at the White House.
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Wall Street Journal, CBS Los Angeles and Vox
USA Today:
John Kelly, hired to restore order for President Donald Trump, is out as chief of staff
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The Gateway Pundit, RedState and The New Neo
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Chief of Staff John Kelly to leave White House by end of month, Trump says
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NPR, Washington Free Beacon and twitchy.com
Associated Press:
Trump says chief of staff John Kelly to leave at year's end
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SARAH PALIN and The Daily Caller
Kalhan Rosenblatt / NBC News:
Trump says John Kelly to leave chief of staff role by year end
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CNBC and BuzzFeed News
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Ocasio-Cortez for 2028?
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KBZK, The Daily Caller and Splinter
John Solomon / The Hill:
Comey's confession: dossier not verified before, or after, FISA warrant — Many people I know in law enforcement circles shuddered when James Comey tweeted recently that acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker “may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer.” — To them, Comey's Twitter attack crossed …
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Breitbart
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Yahoo News:
Trump first wanted his attorney general pick Bill Barr for another job: Defense lawyer — In late spring 2017, President Trump was having a — hard time finding a topflight lawyer to spearhead his defense in the sprawling Russian investigation conducted by the new special counsel — Robert Mueller.
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SARAH PALIN, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Mother Jones, TheBlaze, ThinkProgress and RT
Associated Press:
Comey: Russia investigation initially looked at 4 Americans — WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI's counterintelligence investigation into potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia initially focused on four Americans and whether they were connected to Russian efforts to interfere …
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Political Wire
CNN:
House Republicans release Comey interview transcript — Comey: Trump attacks on FBI ‘deeply troubling’ — (CNN)The House Judiciary and Oversight committees have released a transcript of former FBI Director James Comey's closed-door interview with the committees on Friday.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Axios, The American Mirror and Mediaite
Fox News:
Comey transcript released: Ex-FBI boss claims not to know, remember key details in Russia case — Former FBI Director James Comey claimed “I don't know” or “I don't remember” in response to dozens of questions concerning key details in the Russia probe, according to a lengthy transcript released Saturday …
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TheBlaze, Power Line and HuffPost
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The utterly lawless ‘Individual-1’
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Raw Story and New York Magazine
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
A Home Run by Trump
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Politico, Hot Air, The New Neo, Variety and Sputnik International
New York Times:
The Wooing of Jared Kushner: How the Saudis Got a Friend in the White House — Senior American officials were worried. Since the early months of the Trump administration, Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and Middle East adviser, had been having private, informal conversations …
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KBZK, Vox, Middle East Eye, Splinter, Axios, Joe.My.God., Mother Jones, Sputnik International, Mediaite and Raw Story
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Hisham Melhem / Deep State Radio Network:
Mohammed Bin Salman; A Prince Who Should Not Become A King
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
How a chilling Saudi cyberwar ensnared Jamal Khashoggi
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Boston Magazine
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Trump 2020 Shaping Up to Be a Campaign to Stay Out of Prison — In 2016, Donald Trump claimed that America's presidential election would determine nothing less than whether a proven criminal would be sent to jail — or the Oval Office. In 2020, that might actually be the case.
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Common Dreams, The Week and Washington Press
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Ken White / The Atlantic:
Manafort, Cohen, and Individual 1 Are in Grave Danger — Federal prosecutors filed three briefs late on Friday portending grave danger for three men: the former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, the former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, and President Donald Trump.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Just Security:
Mueller's Roadmap: Major Takeaways from Cohen and Manafort Filings
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TheBlaze, Hullabaloo, Fox News Insider and The Guardian
WCMH-TV:
School turns students' lunch debt over to collection agency — CRANSTON, RI (WJAR) Rhode Island's Cranston School District hired a collection agency to recover unpaid student lunch balances. — In a letter to parents, Raymond Votto Jr., chief operating officer of Cranston Public Schools …
Anne-Elisabeth Moutet / New York Post:
In France, les deplorables strike back — PARIS — Glittering shops from Louis Vuitton to Dior are boarded up on both sides of the Champs-Élysées. The Eiffel Tower and the Louvre will be closed. Paris has hunkered down for the latest Yellow Saturday, the fourth in a row …
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Al Arabiya:
Details of calls to attack Trump by US ‘Muslim Sisters’ allied to Brotherhood — Linda Sarsour speaks during a National Day of Action for a Dream Act Now protest on February 7, 2018, in Washington D.C. (AFP) — For the first time in US political history, two Muslim women joined the ranks …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Trump Calls Senator Richard Blumenthal ‘The Dick’ in Bizarre Tweets — After watching Senator Richard Blumenthal on TV, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to attack him again and nickname him “The Dick.” — Many times when Blumenthal has spoken out against Trump …
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POLITICUSUSA, The Gateway Pundit and The Atlantic
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