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5:55 PM ET, June 9, 2014

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Gregory Korte / Associated Press:
USA TODAY poll: Obama mishandled Bergdahl exchange  —  WASHINGTON — Public opposition to the exchange of five Taliban prisoners for captive Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has less to do with Bergdahl himself and more with how President Obama handled the transfer, according to a new USA TODAY/Pew Research Center poll.
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
'I've Had Enough:' When Democrats Quit on Obama  —  Bergdahl swap is latest last straw for top Democrats frustrated with president's leadership.  —  The email hit my in-box at 9:41 p.m. last Wednesday.  From one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington, a close adviser to the White House …
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Public Has Doubts about Bergdahl Prisoner Exchange  —  But Most Say U.S. Should Do All It Can to Return Captive Troops  —  The prisoner exchange that freed U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl from the Taliban in Afghanistan gets a more negative than positive reaction from the public.
Noah Rothman / Hot Air:
Andrea Mitchell not buying State Dept.'s spin on Bergdahl Swap
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Ed Driscoll
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
By REVIEW-JOURNAL STAFF  —  Two Las Vegas police officers were killed Sunday in what appears to be a politically motivated ambush in a pizza restaurant that spilled over to a nearby Wal-Mart, where the two shooters committed suicide after killing a woman in the store.
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Brian Nordli / Las Vegas Sun News:
Neighbors: Couple suspected in Las Vegas killing spree vowed to commit ‘next Columbine’  —  Hours after a man and woman killed two police officers at an east Las Vegas pizza restaurant and then gunned down another victim at a nearby Wal-Mart before killing themselves, a picture of the shooters began to emerge.
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Facebook Posts Reveal Vegas Shooter Thought Bundy Ranch Was ‘Start Of Revolution’
Discussion: Liberaland
Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Clintons Were ‘Dead Broke’ After Leaving White House … Hillary Clinton defended the millions of dollars she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have earned giving paid speeches since leaving public office in an exclusive interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer ahead of Tuesday's release of her new memoir, “Hard Choices.”
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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
The Cynical Strategy Behind Obama and Hillary's Marriage of Convenience  —  So far, we know that Hillary Clinton's new book, Hard Choices, catalogues the following disagreements with her former boss, Barack Obama: She favored arming and training moderate Syrian rebels, keeping Hosni Mubarak in power longer …
Discussion: Politico, Hullabaloo, The Dish and ABC News
Ken Thomas / Associated Press:
Clinton: We were ‘dead broke’ after WH
Discussion: Capitol Report and Liberaland
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Amid firestorm of criticism, Puckett won't take tobacco commission job  —  RICHMOND — Amid a firestorm of criticism regarding his resignation from the Virginia Senate, Democrat Phillip P. Puckett is withdrawing his name from consideration for a job with the state tobacco commission …
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Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Va. lawmaker to resign, paving way for jobs for self, daughter, according to associates
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid >>:
Harry And Landra Reid To Move To Las Vegas Area  —  Harry and Landra Reid will move closer to children and grandchildren in Las Vegas  —  They will sell Searchlight property that their home is on to allow development  —  Harry and Landra Reid will continue to own other Searchlight property
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Reid sells Searchlight home to mining company
Hayley Peterson / Business Insider:
The ‘Short Suit’ Is Finally Going Mainstream  —  Retailers are starting to push a new trend in menswear: the short suit.  —  The ensemble looks like a regular suit from the waist up, with a sport coat over a button-down shirt and sometimes a tie or bowtie.  Instead of trousers, however, the suit's bottoms are cropped at the knee.
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Obama makes a Starbucks run  —  Washington (CNN) - The afternoon coffee run - it's a must for office workers worldwide, including, apparently, President Barack Obama.  —  At around 2:30 p.m. ET on Monday, the commander-in-chief - with little warning to his aides, security detail or the press …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecast: Toss-Up or Tilt GOP?  —  We last issued a U.S. Senate forecast in mid-March.  Not a lot has changed since then.  —  The Senate playing field remains fairly broad.  There are 10 races where we give each party at least a 20 percent chance of winning,1 …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Interests, Ideology And Climate  —  There are three things we know about man-made global warming.  First, the consequences will be terrible if we don't take quick action to limit carbon emissions.  Second, in pure economic terms the required action shouldn't be hard to take: emission controls …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Congressman: ‘Foolish’ To Think Humans Can Cause Climate Change (VIDEO)  —  Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL) said Monday that it is “foolish” to believe humans can cause climate change.  —  MSNBC host Richard Lui had asked Miller if he thought messaging against man-made climate change …
Dan Savage / The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper:
About That Hate Crime I Committed at University of Chicago  —  Let's play let's pretend, shall we?  (I realize we played let's pretend earlier this week, Slog, but indulge me.)  —  Let's pretend that I'm standing in line at Starbucks with a straight friend and we're having an animated conversation.
Jonathan Chait Follow / New York Magazine:
Obama Promised to Do 4 Big Things As President.  Now He's Done Them All.  —  It's no longer possible to imagine that historians will look back at his presidency and conclude that not much got accomplished.  —  The conservative view of President Obama has straddled two difficult-to-reconcile portraits.
Jake Tapper / CNN:
(CNN) — Much attention has been given to the claim made by the former platoonmates of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl that he is partly to blame for the deaths of six soldiers who were killed in the months after Bergdahl disappeared.  —  Some soldiers have gone so far as to say the six died while searching for Bergdahl.
Discussion: National Review and RedState
Michael Wolff / USA Today:
Can these faces save CNN?  —  How to fix CNN is one of those enduring media puzzles that just might, it sometime seems, nag forever at true news believers.  Shouldn't there be a way to create strong, intelligent, informative news that a significant audience might find compelling?
Discussion: TVNewser and Politico
 
 
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