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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's Comey fight spooks Capitol Hill — There is widespread concern among Congressional leadership about Trump's frame of mind in the wake of the Comey firing. — Senior Senate aide: “It has to stop ... never seen anything like this in my entire career.”
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Pamela Brown / CNN:
Source: Comey is ‘not worried about any tapes’ — Washington (CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey is “not worried about any tapes” of conversations between him and President Donald Trump, a source familiar with the matter told CNN Friday, adding that “if there is a tape, there's nothing he is worried about” that could be on it.
Pierre Thomas / ABC News:
Comey furious at lack of respect White House showed, sources say — Former FBI Director James Comey was furious at the lack of respect the White House showed him in the way he was fired, sources have told ABC News. — Associates say he is simmering at some of the comments directed …
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Charles J. Sykes / New York Times:
If Liberals Hate Him, Then Trump Must Be Doing Something Right — If there was one principle that used to unite conservatives, it was respect for the rule of law. Not long ago, conservatives would have been horrified at wholesale violations of the norms and traditions of our political system …
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The Daily Beast:
White House Staff React in Real-Time as Trump Tweets: ‘Jesus’ … It was 7:51 a.m. eastern time on a Friday, and the president was angrily tweetstorming again. — This time, it was about “Fake News,” “the Russians,” China and beef, James Comey and “tapes,” and his sometimes hapless White House staff.
Austin Wright / Politico:
Comey declines to testify before Senate committee — Ousted FBI Director James Comey will not appear in a closed session before the Senate Intelligence Committee next Tuesday. — Comey had been invited by Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and top Democrat Mark Warner of Virginia.
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AP News:
The Latest: Senate intel chair sees no evidence of collusion — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the FBI (all times local): — The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says he doesn't think the FBI investigation into alleged links between President …
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James Fallows / The Atlantic:
Five Reasons the Comey Affair Is Worse Than Watergate — The tangled affair now known as Watergate began 45 years ago, before most of today's U.S. population had even been born. (The median age of Americans is about 38, so most people in the country were born in 1979 or thereafter.)
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Fox News Insider:
Judge Jeanine Pirro Interview With President Trump — Plus Bobby Knight joins “Watters' World.” — Don't miss Judge Jeanine Pirro's interview with President Donald Trump, Saturday at 9:00pm ET on Justice. — The president will go inside his controversial decision to fire FBI Director James Comey …
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Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
‘It Took My Breath Away’: Chris Wallace Offers Stunning, Must-Watch Critique of Trump White House — Chris Wallace has spent the better part of the past four decades reporting on Washington for NBC, ABC, and now Fox News. And given his lengthy tenure of Beltway reporting …
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Shannon Vavra / Axios:
Comey turns down Senate invite, won't testify next week — Senate Intel committee ranking member Mark Warner (D-VA) told MSNBC Friday that former FBI Director James Comey will not be appearing before the committee next Tuesday, despite an invitation to speak with the committee behind closed doors.
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Justin Miller / The Daily Beast:
Did Donald Trump's Dinner With FBI Boss James Comey Break the Law?
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump's Comey firing sets off new round of leaks
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Weighs Shake-Up of Press Team
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Bwittes / Lawfare:
Et Tu Rod? Why The Deputy Attorney General Must Resign
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Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Trump suggests WH ‘not have press conferences’ unless he does them himself
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New York Times:
Trump Warning to Comey Prompts Questions on ‘Tapes’
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why it's likely that Trump does have recordings of his Oval Office conversations
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
‘No one can talk sense into him’: CNN guest says even Ivanka seems to have lost control of President Trump
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Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:
Trump vs. the Russia Investigations
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Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Defenders or enablers?
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NBC News:
My Dinner With Comey: Current and Former FBI Officials Dispute Trump Account of Meeting With FBI Director
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Comey replacements: White House confirms shortlist to head FBI
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Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
Trump has a long history of secretly recording calls, according to former associates
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Kelly Cohen / Washington Examiner:
James Comey rejects invitation to testify before Senate Intelligence Committee
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Top Dems call for report on Sessions's role in Comey firing
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Saba Hamedy / CNN:
Warner: Comey won't testify to intel panel next week
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GreAt / Securelist:
WannaCry ransomware used in widespread attacks all over the world — Earlier today, our products detected and successfully blocked a large number of ransomware attacks around the world. In these attacks, data is encrypted with the extension “.WCRY” added to the filenames.
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Chris Baraniuk / BBC:
Ransomware infections reported worldwide
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Julian Sanchez / Just Security:
A Misplaced Focus on “Collusion” — Public discussion of the FBI's ongoing investigation into Russian influence on the 2016 election is dominated by the question of collusion: Were senior members of the Trump campaign knowing collaborators in the Russian government's campaign to undermine Hillary Clinton's candidacy?
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Paul Sperry / New York Post:
The real reason Trump canned Jim Comey
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John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Craven Republican Enablers
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Wall Street Journal:
Financial-Crimes Monitor to Share Records in Trump-Russia Probe — Senate committee requested the data from Treasury's FinCEN — WASHINGTON—A Treasury Department unit that specializes in combating money-laundering will share financial records with an expanding Senate probe …
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Sessions issues sweeping new criminal charging policy — Attorney General Jeff Sessions overturned the sweeping criminal charging policy of former attorney general Eric H. Holder Jr. and directed his federal prosecutors Thursday to charge defendants with the most serious, provable crimes carrying the most severe penalties.
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
New York Times publisher sends personal appeal to those who canceled over Bret Stephens — New York Times publisher Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. is making a personal appeal to subscribers who canceled because the paper hired Bret Stephens, a conservative columnist who has questioned …
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Washington Post:
‘You are paddleboarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks,’ chopper tells Calif. beachgoers — “You are paddleboarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks,” Deputy Brian Stockbridge announced via a loudspeaker. — Stockbridge was in a helicopter, flying off the coast …
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