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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘I was happy to do it for you’: Matt Gaetz overheard making stunning admission to Trump about Cohen threat — Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has fallen under investigation for an apparent threat against Michael Cohen — which he may have made at President Donald Trump's request.
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Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Joe.My.God., Hullabaloo and Hot Air
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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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Talking Points Memo, Axios, Roll Call, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, Joe.My.God., The Week, Washington Times, Mediaite and Liberty Unyielding
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 …
Associated Press:
Fordham confirms that Trump team threatened the school if his grades became public — Fordham University is confirming it received a letter from Donald Trump's then-lawyer threatening legal action if Trump's academic records became public. — Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen has testified …
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Chalkbeat
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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New York Times, Raw Story and POLITICUSUSA
John Solomon / The Hill:
Michael Cohen's perjury problem: Witnesses refute testimony about not wanting White House job
Michael Cohen's perjury problem: Witnesses refute testimony about not wanting White House job
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KBZK, NB Blog, Boston Globe and fox13now.com
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump lambastes Cohen, pointing to reportedly favorable book proposed by his former lawyer
New York Times:
Michael Cohen's Testimony Opens New Phase of Political Turbulence for Trump
Michael Cohen's Testimony Opens New Phase of Political Turbulence for Trump
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Above the Law and Outside the Beltway
Alex Wagner / The Atlantic:
Michael Cohen's Made-for-TV Mea Culpa
Michael Cohen's Made-for-TV Mea Culpa
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Talking Points Memo and Shareblue Media
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Donald Trump Went to Vietnam, and Michael Cohen Made It Hell
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump's One Summit Win Was Over the Media
Trump's One Summit Win Was Over the Media
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Just Security, NPR, One America News Network, The Guardian and The White House
New York Times:
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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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 …
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USA Today:
At North Korea summit, flattery got Trump nowhere — No deal is better than a bad deal, but Kim Jong Un did not come away from Hanoi empty-handed: Our view — Many Americans went to bed Wednesday expecting an overnight nuclear deal between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
Officials say Trump overstated Kim's demand on sanctions
Officials say Trump overstated Kim's demand on sanctions
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Politico, The Week, New York Times, fox8.com and FOX59
Samantha Vinograd / The Daily Beast:
Hanoi Summit Failed Because Trump Refuses to Prep
Hanoi Summit Failed Because Trump Refuses to Prep
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Outside the Beltway, One America News Network, Raw Story, Associated Press and CityNews Toronto
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Forget Hanoi. Trump has already done irreparable damage to America's reputation.
Forget Hanoi. Trump has already done irreparable damage to America's reputation.
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Esquire
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The GOP performance at the Cohen hearing was a study in moral corruption
The GOP performance at the Cohen hearing was a study in moral corruption
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Raw Story, The Nation, Breitbart, ABC News, The Mahablog and Axios
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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Washington Post, ABC11, New York Times, CNN, CityLab, CNBC and Axios
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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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National Review, Louder With Crowder, Young Conservatives, Daily Wire, Pirate's Cove, Axios and RedState
Alex Shephard / New Republic:
The Sensible Politics of Soaking the Rich
The Sensible Politics of Soaking the Rich
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The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and The Daily Caller
YouTube:
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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 …
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.
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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Daily Wire, Young Conservatives, Balloon Juice, Breitbart, Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air, Jewish Insider and Washington Examiner
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John F. Harris / Politico:
What's So Funny About Amy Klobuchar's Bad Temper? — Amy Klobuchar, by some accounts, is a tyrannical boss, prone to paroxysms of anger and frustration that have her hurling insults and even physical objects toward staff — a management style that has left a trail of shaken and humiliated former employees.
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Washington Examiner
Lukas Mikelionis / Fox News:
Ilhan Omar says she does not recognize Venezuelan interim president, defying Dem leadership, Western governments — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is under fire for previously attending a travel delegation sponsored by ‘Witness for Peace’ — Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar said she does …
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Mediaite and The Intercept
Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
An 11-year-old pleaded for an abortion after she was raped. She was forced to give birth. — An 11-year-old rape victim gave birth in Argentina on Tuesday after she was apparently denied an abortion by authorities, infuriating women's rights advocates in the country who have fought to legalize the procedure.
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The Guardian
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Disclosing Subpoena for Testimony, Chelsea Manning Vows to Fight — WASHINGTON — Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst convicted in 2013 of leaking archives of secret military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, revealed in an interview on Thursday that she had been subpoenaed …
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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Breitbart, The Daily Caller, ABC News and Shakesville
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans pressure Trump to back down on border emergency
Republicans pressure Trump to back down on border emergency
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TheBlaze, Talking Points Memo and Axios