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Emily Tillett / CBS News:
Attorney General William Barr on caring about his reputation: “Everyone dies” — Looking back on his lengthy career as a top Department of Justice official, Attorney General William Barr doesn't seem fazed by critics questioning his relationship with President Trump and alleging he's …
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Elizabeth Warren / Medium:
No President Is Above the Law — When Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report was released on April 18, I sat down and read it. All 448 pages of it. I started reading it that afternoon, and I read all through the night and into the next morning. And when I got to page 448, three things were clear to me.
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CBS News:
William Barr interview: Read the full transcript — In an exclusive interview with “CBS This Morning,” Attorney General William Barr said he believes special counsel Robert Mueller could have reached a decision on whether President Trump committed obstruction of justice …
New York Times:
Mueller Played by the Rules. Trump Made New Ones. — The special counsel led an investigation that was disciplined, quiet, and by the book — and the president seized the opportunity. — WASHINGTON — The president of the United States appears to believe that you don't matter unless you are on television.
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CBS News:
Barr says Justice Department and Mueller sparred over “legal analysis” in Russia report — In an exclusive interview with “CBS This Morning,” Attorney General William Barr said Robert Mueller and the Justice Department disagreed over the “legal analysis” in the special counsel's report …
CNBC:
Mnuchin and Lighthizer were opposed to Trump tariffs on Mexico, source says — KEY POINTS — Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer opposed President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs on Mexico, according to a source close to the White House.
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Washington Post:
Trump's tariff threat to Mexico may upend trade deal, undermine the economy — President Trump's surprise announcement of an escalating series of new tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico is likely to upend hopes for early congressional action on his proposed North American trade deal …
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Trump's latest Mexico tariff gambit is reckless and mindbogglingly stupid
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Washington Post:
Trump pushes ahead with plan to slap Mexico with tariffs even as lawmakers and businesses angrily protest
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Maggie Haberman: Trump Was Unsettled by Mueller on TV Because He Hasn't Read the Report — Was President Donald Trump particularly vexed as he addressed a press gaggle assembled on the White House lawn on his way to address the Air Force Academy graduation?
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Nadler: ‘There certainly is’ justification for impeaching Trump
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
Leaked Navy emails show top officers struggling with how to handle a former governor ensnared in scandal — The year was just beginning when a Trump administration official contacted the Navy with a question about former Missouri governor Eric Greitens, a veteran of the wars in Iraq …
Joyce Lee / Reuters:
North Korea's Kim Jong Un carrying out purge after Hanoi summit collapse: Chosun Ilbo — SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea executed Kim Hyok Chol, its special envoy to the United States, and foreign ministry officials who carried out working-level negotiations for the second U.S.-North Korea summit in February …
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The Daily Beast:
Team Obama Tells Iran: Don't Escalate, Don't Take Trump's Bait — As tensions with Iran heat up, former Obama administration officials have quietly urged government officials there to keep their cool. — As the Trump administration sent warplanes and an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf …
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James Politi / Financial Times:
Fed candidate slams bank's ‘Soviet’ power over markets — Judy Shelton, a senior US official who is being vetted for a job on the board of the Federal Reserve, has attacked the central bank for wielding undemocratic, Soviet-style powers over markets and suggested it should not even be in the business of setting interest rates.
Justin Doom / ABC News:
Donald Trump ‘wants us to impeach him,’ Nancy Pelosi tells Jimmy Kimmel — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday night on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” that President Donald Trump actually wants to be impeached because he believes the Republican-controlled Senate would bail him out.
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Sister Toldjah / RedState:
Video: Joe Scarborough Bizarrely Equates Nancy Pelosi Impeaching Trump to When Lincoln Freed the Slaves
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Katie Galioto / Politico:
Kasich says there's ‘no path’ to the White House for him in 2020 — Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Friday quashed the idea of him launching a presidential run, arguing there is “no path” to the White House for him in 2020. — “I don't see a way to get there,” said Kasich, one of Trump's challengers in the 2016 Republican primary.
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Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
Kasich on 2020: ‘There is no path right now for me’
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Political Wire
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Fox News Host Laura Ingraham Defends White Supremacist and Anti-Semite — Laura Ingraham defended a famed white supremacist known for brazen racism and anti-Semitism as a “prominent voice censored by social media” — Ingraham kicked off her segment Thursday night with a defense of literal fake news …
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Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair:
“Inconsistent, Incoherent, and Poorly Conceived”: As the Times Clamps Down on Reporters Going on MSNBC, Is This a Liberal-Media War? — The Times recently yanked one of its journalists from Rachel Maddow amid concerns about cable-news “bias.” Dean Baquet “thinks it's a real issue.”
Priscilla Alvarez / CNN:
Exclusive: Watchdog finds detainees ‘standing on toilets’ for breathing room at border facility holding 900 people in space meant for 125 — Washington (CNN)The Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General has found “dangerous overcrowding” and unsanitary conditions at an El Paso …
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Making Sense of the New American Right — Column: Keeping track of the Jacksonians, Reformicons, Paleos, and Post-liberals — I like to start my classes on conservative intellectual history by distinguishing between three groups. There is the Republican Party, with its millions of adherents …
Luiz Romero / Quartz:
Italy is evicting Steve Bannon from the medieval monastery he planned to turn into a far-right training academy — The Italian government has delivered a potentially fatal blow to Steve Bannon's plans to transform a medieval monastery near Rome into a training academy for the far-right.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump and Bibi's Bad Week — They're both at war with those who would investigate them. But are they winning or losing? — We knew that this particular Presidential meltdown was coming. By the time President Trump ranted to the media on Thursday morning, shouting over the noise …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Inside Romney's Trump strategy — When asked about Republicans' criticism of his occasional anti-Trump stances, Mitt Romney doesn't miss a beat: “I have to show you something.” — He grabs his iPad and pulls up an article: “Romney: why the Republican pros distrust him.”
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John F. Harris / Politico:
5 Ways Trump Has Remade the Democratic Party — For years, a growing stripe of Democrats has argued that what their party needs is a leader willing to shatter old assumptions, a radical disrupter. — Well, Democrats already have found their transformational figure for the 2020 campaign.
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Diamond & Silk
Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
Cory Booker and the Orthodox rabbi were like brothers. Now they don't speak. — OXFORD, England — The Jewish festival of Purim was in full swing: Music was blasting, family and friends were bouncing to the beat, and 6-foot-3 Cory Booker was laughing and dancing while carrying a 5-foot-6 Orthodox rabbi in a clown suit on his back.
Tim Alberta / Politico:
Kirsten Gillibrand's Failure to Launch — HAMPTON, New Hampshire—Kirsten Gillibrand is only asking for a dollar. — It's not that she couldn't use more money. In the first quarter of 2019, the junior senator from New York raised just $3 million for her presidential campaign …
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Bloomberg:
Carmakers See $18 Billion Wiped Out by Trump's Mexico Threat — World auto manufacturers index falls to lowest since July 2016 — 25% tariffs would ‘cripple’ the industry, Deutsche Bank says — The automotive industry is bearing the brunt of trade-war crossfire again …
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Los Angeles Times:
After dazzling debut, Kamala Harris falls from top of presidential pack … When Kamala Harris launched her presidential bid four months ago, the stars all seemed to align. — She drew a crowd of roughly 20,000 to a lavish Oakland rally. She raised $1.5 million in just 24 hours.
David Corn / Mother Jones:
A New Right-Wing Disinformation Campaign: Biden Was Part of a Deep State Plot Against Trump — The evidence? The veep attended meetings about Russia's attack on the 2016 election. — Washington, DC, Bureau Chief — That didn't take long. Joe Biden had barely joined the 2020 presidential race …
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Barr has not received ‘satisfactory’ answers from intelligence community in Russia probe origins review — Attorney General Bill Barr said he has not received answers from the intelligence community that are “at all satisfactory” in the early stages of his review into the origins of the Russia investigation.
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