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8:40 AM ET, May 10, 2019

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New York Times:
A Strategy Emerges to Counter House Democrats: Dare Them to Impeach  —  WASHINGTON — As the White House and Congress escalate their constitutional showdown, President Trump and his team are essentially trying to call what they see as the Democrats' bluff.  The message: Put up or shut up.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:   ‘Things were often a bit not normal’: Rosenstein gets fond, jokey send-off from Justice Dept.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:   Is This the Official Trump Constitutional Crisis?
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Democrats weigh new impeachment rationale: Gathering evidence
Discussion: Informed Comment
New York Times:
Trump Suggests Mueller May Testify; Pelosi Declares ‘Constitutional Crisis’
Discussion: Above the Law and The Daily Caller
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Burr holds firm despite GOP anger over Don Jr. subpoena  —  Richard Burr faces intense pressure from Republicans to drop his subpoena of President Donald Trump's eldest son and quickly wrap up the Senate Intelligence Committee's Russia probe.  —  But despite a day facing attacks …
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Wall Street Journal:
Burr Draws GOP Scrutiny for Subpoena of Donald Trump Jr.  —  Senate Intelligence Committee chairman has investigated President Trump in a more bipartisan fashion than some of his fellow Republicans  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee's decision to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. opened …
Politico:
House Intel Republicans offer rare praise for Adam Schiff
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
Decision to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. sets off a Republican firefight
Discussion: The Week and Yeshiva World News
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Donald Trump Jr.'s endgame
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Giuliani Plans Ukraine Trip to Push for Inquiries That Could Help Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, is encouraging Ukraine to wade further into sensitive political issues in the United States, seeking to push the incoming government in Kiev …
Washington Post:
Trump and Kim battled subordinates ahead of spike in tensions  —  President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shattered more than a year of relative tranquility Thursday with the U.S. seizure of a North Korean vessel and the isolated regime's launch of two short-range ballistic missiles.
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Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
Experts see Russia fingerprints on North Korea's new missile  —  TOKYO (AP) — The three new missiles North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has tested over the past week are eerily familiar to military experts: They look just like a controversial and widely copied missile the Russian military …
Discussion: Political Wire
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Why Trump misses Bob Mueller
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge fast-tracks fight over congressional subpoena of Trump financial records  —  NYT reporter calls Trump business losses ‘unbelievable’  —  Washington (CNN)Congress and Donald Trump's fight over his financial records is now on the fast track.  —  Judge Amit Mehta plans next week to weigh …
Discussion: New York Times and Law & Crime
Joe McDonald / Associated Press:
US hikes tariffs on Chinese goods, Beijing vows retaliation  —  BEIJING (AP) — President Donald Trump's latest tariff hike on Chinese goods took effect Friday and Beijing said it would retaliate, escalating a battle over China's technology ambitions and other trade tensions.
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Jay Weaver / Miami Herald:
Trump cheered Patriots to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where Kraft was busted  —  The FBI has opened a public corruption investigation into Republican donor and South Florida massage-parlor entrepreneur Li “Cindy” Yang, focusing on whether she illegally funneled money from China …
Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Three Production Companies Say They Won't Film in Georgia Over Abortion Law  —  David Simon's Blown Deadline Productions, Killer Films CEO Christine Vachon and Mark Duplass pledged to no longer shoot in the state as long as the law exists.  —  Georgia, no stranger to threats of boycotts due …
John Solomon / The Hill:
FBI's Steele story falls apart: False intel and media contacts were flagged before FISA  —  The FBI's sworn story to a federal court about its asset, Christopher Steele, is fraying faster than a $5 souvenir t-shirt bought at a tourist trap.  —  Newly unearthed memos show a high-ranking government official …
John Verhovek / ABC News:
Colorado students walk out as school shooting vigil turns political  —  A vigil held Wednesday evening to recognize the victims and heroes of the shooting earlier this week at a Colorado high school turned into a political protest after some students in attendance expressed frustration with the tone and focus of the speeches.
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Anita Hill / New York Times:
Let's Talk About How to End Sexual Violence  —  That's the most important conversation right now.  —  Ms. Hill is a professor at Brandeis University.  —  Last month, Joe Biden called me to talk about his conduct during Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991.
Discussion: Politico, Fox News and Axios
Associated Press:
US B-52 bombers land in Qatar over unspecified Iran threat  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — B-52 bombers ordered by the White House to deploy to the Persian Gulf to counter unspecified threats from Iran have arrived at a major American air base in Qatar, the U.S. Air Force acknowledged Friday.
Abbey Crain / al.com:
Alabama bill would criminalize false rape accusations  —  A bill making it a crime to falsely accuse someone of a sexual crime was first read in the Alabama House of Representatives last week.  —  The bill, introduced by Rep. Dickie Drake, R-Leeds, would make falsely reporting a sex crime …
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Mike Cason / al.com:
Chaos erupts as Alabama Senate strips rape exception from abortion ban, delays vote
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
It turns out Trump's business success was a media-made myth  —  President Trump has finally proved, beyond any doubt, that there is such a thing as #FakeNews.  —  In the 1980s and 1990s, the media conspired to perpetrate a vast fraud on the American people.
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Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Americans' support for impeaching Trump rises: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of Americans who said President Donald Trump should be impeached rose 5 percentage points to 45 percent since mid-April, while more than half said multiple congressional probes of Trump interfered …
Discussion: The Hill, POLITICUSUSA and TheBlaze
Tracy Jan / Washington Post:
HUD says 55,000 children could be displaced under Trump plan to evict undocumented immigrants  —  The Department of Housing and Urban Development acknowledged that a Trump administration plan to purge undocumented immigrants from public housing could displace more than 55,000 children, all of whom are legal U.S. residents or citizens.
Carla Marinucci / Politico:
Mayor Pete blindsides Kamala Harris in California  —  LOS ANGELES — California Democrats, especially those with ties to the influential LGBTQ and Hollywood communities, are finding themselves torn between a home-state senator they love, Kamala Harris, and an out-of-state suitor who has suddenly captured their attention, Pete Buttigieg.
Discussion: Breitbart, Variety, ActBlue and VodkaPundit
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David Weigel / Washington Post:   The Trailer: Trumpworld's plan to reelect the president
It's Going Down:
“We're Gonna Run the Country!  White Power!  F**k N*****s!":  Turning Point USA Leader Gives Alt-Right Hand Sign While Caught on Racist Rant  —  A video sent to It's Going Down and already going viral on various Facebook pages, shows the leader of the Las Vegas chapter of Turning Point USA …
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Petitions with 10 million signatures to impeach Trump delivered to Congress  —  “This is incredible because this is how movements start,” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., who received the signatures on a flash drive.  —  WASHINGTON — National advocacy groups on Thursday delivered …
Discussion: Axios
 
 
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