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Trump Ordered Officials to Give Jared Kushner a Security Clearance — WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials …
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
House Intel Will Call Trump Org Moneyman Allen Weisselberg To Testify — The intelligence committee has indicated for months it intends to follow Trump's money. Allen Weisselberg keeps the Trump Organization's receipts. — The House intelligence community intends to call …
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Martin Gould / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Crazy, Dumb, Paranoid, Liar’ - these things have been said about my boss...NONE of it is true!' Inside Michael Cohen's ‘$750,000’ book deal and how he pitched the proposal praising Trump just weeks before the FBI raided his office — Michael Cohen has turned on Trump now …
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Michael Cohen's perjury problem: Witnesses refute testimony about not wanting White House job — View Latest Opinions >> — Michael Cohen, the disgraced former lawyer for President Trump, repeatedly and aggressively lobbied for a job in the White House but was rejected …
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Washington Post:
Trump demanded top-secret security clearance for Jared Kushner last year despite concerns of John Kelly and intelligence officials — President Trump early last year directed his then-chief of staff, John F. Kelly, to give presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner a top-secret security clearance …
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Axios:
House Democrats plan to turn their Trump investigations into a ongoing public spectacle — Even before Robert Mueller has delivered his final communiqué, Democrats have activated a new phase in the Trump-Russia wars that ultimately could prove more damaging to the president than the special counsel's investigation.
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Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA and New York Times
Alex Wagner / The Atlantic:
Michael Cohen's Made-for-TV Mea Culpa — It was a frenetic scene on Wednesday morning outside hearing room 2154 in the Rayburn building of the U.S. Capitol complex: Reporters, producers, cameramen, and members of the public clogged the hallways as the Capitol Police barked at everyone to Stay to the side! …
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New York Times:
Michael Cohen's Testimony Opens New Phase of Political Turbulence for Trump
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Above the Law and Outside the Beltway
Associated Press:
Fordham confirms that Trump team threatened the school if his grades became public
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Associated Press:
Democrats eye new inquiries, witnesses after Cohen testimony
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump's One Summit Win Was Over the Media
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Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
Officials say Trump overstated Kim's demand on sanctions — HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — President Donald Trump said he walked away from his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un because Kim demanded the U.S. lift all of its sanctions, a claim that North Korea's delegation called …
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump learns the limits of personal power, at home and beyond — Analysis: It may have been one of the worst weeks of Trump's presidency, concentrated in just a few harrowing days. — HANOI, Vietnam — President Donald Trump touched down in Washington a few hours ago having endured …
Samantha Vinograd / The Daily Beast:
Hanoi Summit Failed Because Trump Refuses to Prep
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The GOP performance at the Cohen hearing was a study in moral corruption
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Trump got played by Kim Jong Un — again
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Forget Hanoi. Trump has already done irreparable damage to America's reputation.
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Esquire
HuffPost:
Behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Masterful Interrogation Of Michael Cohen — The questions that won the New York congresswoman praise were the combined product of committee staff expertise, collaboration and oratory skills. — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) went viral again yesterday.
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House Democrats explode in recriminations as liberals lash out at moderates — House Democrats exploded in recriminations Thursday over moderates bucking the party, with liberal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threatening to put those voting with Republicans “on a list” for a primary challenge.
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Alex Shephard / New Republic:
The Sensible Politics of Soaking the Rich
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YouTube:
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Washington Post:
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee joins 2020 Democratic presidential field — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Friday became the latest Democrat to launch a 2020 presidential bid, asserting in a video that he is the only candidate who will make combating climate change the nation's top priority.
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POLITICUSUSA
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ilhan Omar Accuses Israel Hawks of ‘Allegiance to a Foreign Country’ — Earlier this month, Representative Ilhan Omar tweeted, “It's all about the Benjamins, baby!” in response to a report about AIPAC, a pro-Israel organization. Omar's tweet echoed a longstanding anti-Semitic trope …
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Page Six:
Brian Williams may score top time slot after late-night rating success … Brian Williams could come back from TV news exile, Page Six is told. — The anchor was booted from the “NBC Nightly News” in 2015 after it was revealed that he'd embellished some stories with fictional details …
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Katie Mettler / Washington Post:
A family couldn't pay the bills, so the city took their dog and sold it on eBay — The family could not pay its debts, so their German town council went looking for assets to seize. — Officials, armed with a search warrant, found a laptop, a coffee machine and the wheelchair of one family member …
Washington Post:
GOP opposition to emergency declaration grows as Trump warns lawmakers — GOP opposition to President Trump's emergency declaration at the border grewin the Senate Thursday, even as Trump warned that fellow Republicans who vote to overturn it are putting themselves “at great jeopardy” politically.
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans pressure Trump to back down on border emergency
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Bloomberg Law:
Labor Dept. Official Represented Steel Co. in Court While on Job — A Labor Department official continued to represent a business in a private lawsuit against a worker union after joining the Trump administration, raising concerns about whether he used the power of his office for leverage, Bloomberg Law has learned.
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Electoral College Is the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy — It has not stood the test of time. Quite the opposite. — It's still well under the radar, but the movement to circumvent the Electoral College gained ground this week. On Sunday, Jared Polis, the governor of Colorado …
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