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5:40 PM ET, May 2, 2022

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Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Esper says Trump wanted to shoot protesters  —  Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper charges in a memoir out May 10 that former President Trump said when demonstrators were filling the streets around the White House following the death of George Floyd: “Can't you just shoot them?
Jonathan Lemire / Politico:
Bidenworld wants to make the midterms more about Trump and hopes Elon Musk helps  —  President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats have struggled to overcome historical headwinds and worrisome economic trends in the lead-up to the midterms.  —  So aides are scheming up something else …
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Judge rejects RNC bid to block email, fundraising data from Jan. 6 panel  —  House probes whether Trump, RNC profited from and stoked violence through false, inflammatory claims of election fraud  —  A federal judge late Sunday rejected the Republican National Committee's bid to block …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Jan. 6 panel seeks info from three GOP House members  —  The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol sent letters on Monday to three House Republicans, seeking their testimony: Reps. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) and Ronny Jackson (R-Texas).
Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Democrats' Mystery: How to Brighten a Presidency and a National Mood
NBC News:
A note to our readers  —  To our readers:  —  A review by NBC News has found 11 articles written by a reporter over the last year that did not meet our standards for original material.  The articles contained passages from other news organizations that were used without attribution.
Ben Orner / WCMH-TV:
Vance leads, Dolan surging in last-minute Ohio GOP Senate poll  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — As the remaining undecided voters pick their candidates, three Republican U.S. Senate candidates have emerged as the final frontrunners in a major pollster's last poll before Ohio's primary election Tuesday.
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
Arizona GOP Senate frontrunner loses lead amid air assault  —  Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has fallen out of first place in the state's Republican Senate primary, a slide that corresponds with aggressive advertising spending by his opponents — and Donald Trump's ire.
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: Jan. 6 committee looking into potential Trump pardons  —  PARDON US, BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU — The Jan. 6 select committee today requested testimony from three more House Republicans who are connected to former President DONALD TRUMP's push to overturn …
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Shawn McCreesh / New York Magazine:
Everybody Used to Be In On the Same Joke at the White House Correspondents' Dinner  —  I was at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night — pushing rubbery food around my plate while President Biden admonished that “American democracy is not a reality show.”
Discussion: Power Line
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Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Holy Crap, Look at All These Fancy Nerds (PHOTOS)  —  Over the weekend, America's journalists toasted themselves at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and at numerous afterparties and brunches in our nation's capital.  They dressed up, mingled with celebs, and posed for the cameras like a bunch of fancy nerds.
Discussion: Politico
Devin Dwyer / ABC News:
Supreme Court rules for group in dispute with Boston over flying Christian Flag  —  The court ruled the city of Boston violated the group's First Amendment rights.  —  A unanimous Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the city of Boston violated the First Amendment when it denied a civic group …
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BBC:
Israel outrage at Sergei Lavrov's claim that Hitler was part Jewish  —  Israel has reacted with fury after Russia's foreign minister claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler “had Jewish blood”.  —  Sergei Lavrov made the comments to try to justify Russia's portrayal of Ukraine as “Nazi” despite the fact that its president is Jewish.
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Alex Griffing / Mediaite:   MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Says ‘Hard For Israel’ to Remain Neutral After Russia Claimed Hitler Had Jewish Heritage
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Tucker Carlson Is a White Nationalist, and Conservatives Are Okay With It … Ten years ago, National Review fired longtime contributor John Derbyshire over a column urging white and Asian American parents to warn their children that Black people posed a danger to them.
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Ryan J. Reilly / NBC News:
Former Marine who kicked officer on Jan. 6 sentenced to more than 2 years in prison  —  WASHINGTON — A military veteran from Georgia who attacked police officers at the Capitol as part of a pro-Trump mob attempting to overturn the 2020 election results was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison Monday.
Discussion: Law & Crime
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Former N.Y.P.D. Officer Convicted of Assault in Jan. 6 Case
Mike Allen / Axios:
First look: Jared Kushner to publish White House memoir in August  —  Jared Kushner will be out Aug. 8 with “Breaking History: A White House Memoir,” with the publisher promising never-before-reported tales from the 2016 campaign, the Russia investigation, impeachment and COVID.
Discussion: New York Post
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Lydia O'Connor / HuffPost:
Jared Kushner's White House Memoir Slated For August Release
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Examiner
Alfredo Corchado / Dallas Morning News:
Mexico: Rail link worth billions won't go through Texas after Abbott used trade as ‘political tool’  —  Instead, the proposed rail line would be routed along the far edge of West Texas up through Santa Teresa, N.M., about 20 miles west of downtown El Paso.  —  SANTA TERESA, N.M. …
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
This Is How America's Culture War Death Spirals  —  Sign up for Derek's newsletter here.  —  The drama in Florida between Governor Ron DeSantis and the Walt Disney Company has taken so many unusual turns in so little time that providing a truly straightforward account of what's transpired is not easy.
Discussion: Vanity Fair and Based and Reformed
Caroline Kitchener / Washington Post:
The next frontier for the antiabortion movement: A nationwide ban  —  Advocates and some GOP lawmakers have started mobilizing around potential federal legislation to outlaw abortion after six weeks of pregnancy  —  Leading antiabortion groups and their allies in Congress have been meeting behind …
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / Insider:
Kyrsten Sinema nearly walked out on Biden last year during a heated exchange over his economic agenda, book says  — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema almost walked out on Biden last year in a tense exchange over Build Back Better.  — The Arizona Democrat was angry with Biden for disclosing her spending demands in a White House meeting.
Discussion: National Review
Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:
Herschel Walker, other candidates test skipping debates  —  ATLANTA (AP) — Herschel Walker is expected to skip a second debate against his Republican rivals for a crucial U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday after missing the first one.  —  Ted Budd has skipped four Republican primary debates …
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Another Obama Failure: Amber Heard Fires PR Team Run by Former WH Aides  —  Embattled actress Amber Heard fired her public relations team last week after complaining that her story was “not being told effectively,” according to the New York Post.  —  Heard, who is being sued by ex-husband Johnny Depp …
Discussion: Vanity Fair, Mediaite and Gawker
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Biden's transgender decree  —  BIDEN'S TRANSGENDER DECREE.  One way to shut down debate on a contentious subject is to declare that there is no debate on the subject.  Everyone, absolutely everyone, agrees with one side, so why are you even trying to argue?  It's settled.
 
 
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