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11:00 AM ET, May 9, 2017

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ProPublica:
Comey's Testimony on Huma Abedin Forwarding Emails Was Inaccurate  —  FBI director James Comey generated national headlines last week with his dramatic testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, explaining his “incredibly painful” decision to go public about the Hillary Clinton emails found on Anthony Weiner's laptop.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
A French Lesson for the American Media  —  The hacked emails from Emmanuel Macron's French campaign appear to be spectacularly mundane, according to people who have read them.  They include briefings on issues, personal exchanges and discussions of the weather.
Discussion: AOL
KCRG-TV:
Blum walks out of interview with TV9  —  DUBUQUE, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) - Congressman Rob Blum, who represents Iowa's First District, sat down one on one with TV9 Investigative Reporter Josh Scheinblum for an interview.  —  But the interview ended abruptly, with Rep. Blum walking out during our second question.
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Iowa congressman walks out of a TV interview and into an angry town hall meeting  —  DUBUQUE, Iowa — An Iowa congressman walked out of a television interview on Monday, declining to explain why his staff is pre-screening constituents who plan to attend his town hall meetings this week.
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
The Health 202: Republicans are just starting the hard part on health care
Louis Nelson / Politico:
GOP Rep. Rod Blum storms out of interview
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Left adopts shock tactics in Obamacare repeal fight  —  One newly formed progressive super PAC is planning to cart caskets to Republican lawmakers' districts and hold mock funerals for their constituents.  Another activist is encouraging protesters to ship their own ashes — should they die without health care —to GOP lawmakers.
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Republicans: Obamacare repeal won't sink us in 2018  —  Republicans on Monday disputed forecasts that they would lose seats in 2018 because of their vote to partially repeal Obamacare.  —  Pointing to previously undisclosed voter data, Republican strategists and congressional aides …
Discussion: Political Wire
Jonathan D. Salant / New Jersey Online:
Republican Obamacare repeal would hit N.J harder than any other state
Discussion: Political Wire and Daily Kos
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
It Was Cultural Anxiety That Drove White, Working-Class Voters to Trump  —  White Americans carried Donald Trump to the White House.  He won college-educated white voters by a four-point margin over Hillary Clinton, according to exit polls.  But his real victory was among members of the white working class …
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PRRI:
Beyond Economics: Fears of Cultural Displacement Pushed the White Working Class to Trump |  PRRI/The Atlantic Report  —  Perhaps the most contested question from the 2016 presidential election is what factors motivated white working-class voters to support Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by a margin of roughly two to one.
Discussion: Axios
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Ryan predicts Senate will pass Obamacare repeal in ‘a month or two’  —  House Speaker Paul Ryan predicted Tuesday that it will take the Senate “a month or two” to pass its own legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, the next step in Republicans' process of making good on a campaign pledge they've run on for seven years.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Brian Faler / Politico:   Republicans war over taxes
Sean Cockerham / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
President Kamala Harris?  She's making the first moves.  —  LOS ANGELES  —  Now's the time prospective presidential candidates start taking the subtle but crucial behind-the-scenes steps that get them noticed by the political intelligentsia, and Sen. Kamala Harris is quietly following the script.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Dem senator rips GOP insurance claim: ‘What the f—k is that?’
Discussion: Raw Story and HuffPost
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
ACLU Makes It Official: The Only Thing Wrong With Trump's Travel Order Is Trump  —  The Democrats who attacked President Trump's travel order in front of carefully-selected Democratic judges made the extraordinary claim that the President's statements on the stump, as a candidate …
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Bloomberg:
Yates Fuels Questions About Trump's 18-Day Delay in Firing Flynn  —  Flynn's dismissal came only after media reports of his calls  —  Former acting attorney general says Flynn was compromised  —  Eighteen days.  —  That's how much time passed from acting Attorney General Sally Yates's warning …
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Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Yates & Clapper Admit Viewing “Unmasked” Trump Campaign Communications; Deny Leaking To Press
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Associated Press:
Senate GOP struggles to find challengers for some Democrats  —  Senate Republicans landed a top-tier candidate in West Virginia but have struggled to recruit well-known GOP challengers in several states where President Donald Trump romped and Democratic incumbents warily face re-election.
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David Byler / Real Clear Politics:
How Bad Is the Democratic Senate Map for 2018?
Discussion: Need To Know Network
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
'Y'all see why I voted for him?':  Jimmy Carter says he was a Bernie Sanders supporter  —  Jimmy Carter and the Clintons have long had a frosty relationship.  In 1992, he declined to endorse Bill Clinton, saying “people are looking for somebody who is honest and tells the truth.”
JGoldsmith / Lawfare:
Yates Changes Her Tune  —  Then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates at the Department of Labor, April 2016 / Department of Labor  —  “Sally Yates made the fake media extremely unhappy today—she said nothing but old news!”  So tweeted our President a few hours ago about today's testimony …
HuffPost:
Trump Administration Cites Segregation-Era Ruling To Defend Its Travel Ban  —  In 1971, the Supreme Court decided that courts shouldn't investigate the motivations of officials who closed public pools rather than integrate them.  —  WASHINGTON In a brief defending its ban on citizens …
Missy Ryan / Washington Post:
U.S. poised to expand military effort against Taliban in Afghanistan  —  President Trump's most senior military and foreign policy advisers have proposed a major shift in strategy in Afghanistan that would effectively put the United States back on a war footing with the Taliban.
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:   Trump Advisers Call for More Troops to Break Afghan Deadlock
Betsy Rothstein / The Daily Caller:
JERK ALERT: Secret Service Holds Kellyanne Conway Back From Airport Heckler  —  Enough is enough.  —  Obama's DOJ Reprimanded The SPLC For Accusing An Immigration Reductionist Group Of Being Racist  —  US |  ALEX PFEIFFER  —  ‘McCarthyite ad hominem attacks’
Discussion: BizPac Review, twitchy.com and TheBlaze
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
OBAMA STARTS DEFINING HIS NEW ROLE IN THE AGE OF TRUMP  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Barack Obama is starting to define his new role in the age of Donald Trump.  —  After dropping out of sight for a pair of glamorous island getaways, Obama is emerging for a series of paid and unpaid speeches …
Discussion: Need To Know Network
Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal:
Moon Jae-in Poised to Win South Korean Presidency, Exit Polls Show  —  Exit polls show huge victory for Mr. Moon, who has said that South Korea needs to learn to say ‘no’ to the U.S.
John Ivison / National Post:
White House advisors called Ottawa to urge Trudeau to help talk Trump down from scrapping NAFTA  —  White House staff called the Prime Minister's Office last month to urge Justin Trudeau to persuade President Donald Trump not to tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to multiple Canadian government sources.
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
FBI investigating Jane Sanders for alleged bank fraud: report  —  Federal investigators are looking into allegations that Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) wife, Jane Sanders, falsified loan documents while she served as the president of Burlington College, according to multiple reports.
Discussion: Political Wire, Hot Air and AOL
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump is turning liberals into conspiracy theorists  —  (CNN)Much has been written about how President Trump's election has had a profound impact on the Republican party.  What's drawn less attention — but deserves more! — is how Trump is affecting Democrats.
Politico:
Who has Trump's ear?  Often rich, white, Republican men.  —  The people who have met with Donald Trump since he became president tend to have a lot in common, according to a database POLITICO compiled from public documents, media accounts and its own reporting: They're mostly male, largely Republican and often rich.
Discussion: The Week and AOL
 
 
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National Journal:
Surf's Up For a Wave Election
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Canadians' opinion of US at 35-year low
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Reuters:
Jakarta's Christian governor jailed for blasphemy against Islam
Matthew Desmond / New York Times:
How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality
Daily Mail:
Putin shows off Russia's firepower at Victory Day parade
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Goodbye To My Friend, Bob Owens
Discussion: twitchy.com, Hot Air and Bearing Arms
Bloomberg:
Obamacare Premiums Rise as Insurers Fret Over Law's Shaky Future
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Jerusalem Post:
Netanyahu angry Lauder advised Abbas
Discussion: Israpundit
David McCabe / Axios:
Inside Zuck's real political strategy
Discussion: The Week
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Trump is waging a war on millennials
Discussion: Breitbart
Rebecca Mansour / Breitbart:
Radio talker Glenn Beck has been moved from SiriusXM's conservative talk radio channel.
Discussion: RedState
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Actor Antonio Sabato Jr. to run for Congress against Rep. Julia Brownley
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals

 
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