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5:10 PM ET, May 11, 2017

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Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Trump Interview With Lester Holt: President Asked Comey If He Was Under Investigation  —  President Donald Trump, in an exclusive interview Thursday with NBC News' Lester Holt, called ousted FBI chief James Comey a “showboat” and revealed he asked Comey whether he was under investigation for alleged ties to Russia.
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CNN:
White House: Removing Comey will help bring Russia investigation to end  —  (CNN)The White House said Thursday that removing FBI Director James Comey from his post may hasten the agency's investigation into Russian meddling.  —  “We want this to come to its conclusion …
Discussion: Political Wire
WJLA-TV:
Deputy AG Rosenstein: 'I'm not quitting,' didn't threaten to quit over Comey firing  —  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Thursday, May 11, 2017 that he's not quitting, nor did he threaten to quit over his role in the firing of FBI Director James Comey.  (Sinclair Broadcast Group)  —  AA
Wall Street Journal:
Rosenstein Pressed White House to Correct the Record on Comey Firing  —  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein pressed White House counsel Don McGahn to correct what he felt was an inaccurate White House depiction of the events surrounding FBI Director James Comey's firing.
Ali Watkins / Politico:
Rosenstein meets with Senate Intel leaders after Comey firing  —  Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was seen arriving at the Senate Intelligence Committee's secure office spaces Thursday afternoon.  Sources told POLITICO Rosenstein had requested to meet with the Intelligence Committee leaders …
Washington Post:
How Trump's anger and impatience prompted him to fire the FBI director  —  Every time FBI Director James B. Comey appeared in public, an ever-watchful President Trump grew increasingly agitated that the topic was the one that he was most desperate to avoid: Russia.
NBC News:
Trump No Longer Expecting to Visit FBI Headquarters After Comey Firing: Officials  —  The White House has abandoned the idea of President Trump visiting FBI headquarters after being told he would not be greeted warmly, administration officials tell NBC News.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, CNBC and AOL
Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Considering Ex-Congressman Mike Rogers for FBI Director, Official Says  —  President Donald Trump is considering Mike Rogers, a former congressman and FBI agent from Michigan, to replace James Comey as FBI director, a White House official said.  —  Rogers, 53, a former chairman …
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Experts on authoritarianism are absolutely terrified by the Comey firing  —  “Trump has talked like a would-be authoritarian since day one. ...  This is the first clear warning sign that he's attempting to [act like one].”  —  Those are the words not of a Democratic political operative …
Discussion: CNBC and Shareblue
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
In interview, Trump contradicts Pence on Comey  —  Vice President Mike Pence has once again delivered the White House line, in the face of growing contradictory evidence, on a charged topic related to Russia's possible connections to the Trump campaign.  —  In meetings on Capitol Hill …
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Sources: Comey sought to expand Trump-Russia probe of former campaign officials  —  WASHINGTON  —  The FBI-led probe into whether Russian influence operations helped put Donald Trump in the White House is on a knife's edge and could easily veer into either of two distinct directions.
Discussion: Washington Post and Hot Air
patribotics:   EXCLUSIVE: Comey Day: ‘First Trump Russia Arrests Possible’ Thursday
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Our Rendezvous With Authoritarianism Has Arrived
Discussion: Washington Post
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
For Trump Supporters, the Real Outrage Is the Left's Uproar Over Comey
Discussion: National Review and Fox News
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump puts agenda, presidency at risk
Discussion: Politico, Raw Story and CNN
Edward Morrissey / The Fiscal Times:
The Comey Firing Proves We Need Two Special Counsels, Not One
Dara Lind / Vox:
Trump himself just confirmed his White House's story about Comey's firing was a lie
Economist:
What is Trumponomics and how does it differ from standard Republican economics?  —  Well it's an interesting question.  I don't think it's ever been asked quite that way.  But it really has to do with self-respect as a nation.  It has to do with trade deals that have to be fair, and somewhat reciprocal, if not fully reciprocal.
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Donald Trump has no idea what health insurance costs  —  “In a short period of time,” President Trump recently told Time magazine in an interview about his first months in the White House, “I understood everything there was to know about health care.”  —  Around the same time, Trump gave another interview, this one to the Economist.
TIME.com:
From where the 45th President works, eats and sleeps, everything is going just great.  Now if only everyone else would see it that way.  A TIME exclusive  —  PHOTOGRAPHS BY BENJAMIN RASMUSSEN FOR TIME  —  In a few minutes, President Donald Trump will release a new set of tweets …
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
President Trump launches commission on ‘election integrity’  —  President Donald Trump has signed an executive order today establishing a commission to review alleged voter fraud and voter suppression in the American election system.  —  Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary …
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Trump signs order launching voter fraud investigation
Discussion: ABC News
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Conway links Anderson Cooper's eye roll to sexism … White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Thursday appeared to accuse CNN's Anderson Cooper of sexism for rolling his eyes during an on-air interview with her.  —  “I face sexism a lot of times when I show up for interviews like that,” Conway said on “Fox & Friends.”
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:   Trump Jr. shares tweet linking Clinton's firing of FBI director to death of Vince Foster
capitalgazette.com:
FBI raids office of Republican campaign consultant in Annapolis  —  The Baltimore Sun  —  The FBI raided the office of a Republican campaign consultant in Annapolis on Thursday, part of an investigation the firm's president said was tied to the 2013 Virginia governor's race.
Discussion: New York Magazine and Raw Story
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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Presence of Russian photographer in Oval Office raises alarms  —  A photographer for a Russian state-owned news agency was allowed into the Oval Office on Wednesday during President Trump's meeting with Russian diplomats, a level of access that was criticized by former U.S. intelligence officials as a potential security breach.
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Official: We ‘Let the Biggest Perpetrator of Fake News into the Oval Office’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
‘You have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out.’ Trump targets the Navy's new aircraft catapult  —  President Trump set his sights on the Navy in a new interview, calling the service's new digital catapult to launch planes off of aircraft carriers “no good” and saying that the Navy needs to go back to …
Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
Kushner family drops out of China presentation  —  The sister of White House adviser Jared Kushner on Thursday pulled out of the family company's scheduled weekend presentation to potential Chinese investors amid growing criticism that she had used her brother's position to benefit the family's real estate empire.
 
 
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Pew Research Center:
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Bloomberg:
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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Steel Industry, Seeing a New Dawn, Is Cheering for Trump
Sara A. Carter / Circa:
WATCH |  An update on Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's conversation with Hillary Clinton …
Joe Uchill / The Hill:
Head of Russian cybersecurity firm defends company amid US scrutiny
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Trump Supporter Harassing Muslim Family In Viral Video Cries In Mug Shot
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Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
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Matthew Stein / The College Fix:
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How IJR plans to burst the filter bubble with a dose of The Resistance
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Ken Silverstein / Observer:
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