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2:20 PM ET, June 7, 2017

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Adam Entous / Washington Post:
Top intelligence official told associates Trump asked him if he could intervene with Comey on FBI Russia probe  —  The nation's top intelligence official told associates in March that President Trump asked him if he could intervene with then-FBI Director James B. Comey to get the bureau …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Can Commit All the High Crimes He Wants.  Republicans Aren't Going to Impeach Him.  —  Since the beginning of Donald Trump's presidency, or even before, Democrats have been waiting for the moment when the Republican Party's indulgence would snap.  In every incremental advance of the Russia story …
New York Times:
Comey Told Sessions: Don't Leave Me Alone With Trump  —  WASHINGTON — The day after President Trump asked James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, to end an investigation into his former national security adviser, Mr. Comey confronted Attorney General Jeff Sessions and said he did not want to be left alone again …
Colin Packham / Reuters:
Watergate ‘pales’ compared with Trump-Russia: former U.S. intelligence head  —  The Watergate scandal pales in comparison to events in Washington surrounding U.S. President Donald Trump and alleged links between his campaign and Russia, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said on Wednesday.
Washington Post:
Post-ABC Poll: Most say Trump is interfering with Russia investigations  —  A majority of Americans report grave suspicions about President Trump's firing of FBI Director James B. Comey and his conduct during investigations of Russia's interference in the 2016 election, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
New York Times:
Trump Picks Christopher Wray to Be F.B.I. Director  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said Wednesday that he had selected the former federal prosecutor Christopher Wray, a partner at the Washington law firm King & Spalding, to be his new F.B.I. director.  —  The president revealed his decision in a morning tweet.
Murray Waas / Vox:
3 senior FBI officials can vouch for Comey's story about Trump  —  Sources: McCabe, Rybicki, and Baker could corroborate the ex-director's claims that the president asked him to back off investigating Michael Flynn.  —  One by one this winter, then-FBI Director James B. Comey pulled aside three …
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions suggested he could resign amid rising tension with President Trump  —  As the White House braces for former FBI Director James Comey's testimony Thursday, sources tell ABC News the relationship between President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump, furious and frustrated, gears up to punch back at Comey testimony  —  Alone in the White House in recent days, President Trump — frustrated and defiant — has been spoiling for a fight, according to his confidants and associates.  —  Glued even more than usual to the cable news shows …
The Daily Beast:
White House Staff, Congress Blindsided by FBI Pick Announcement
Discussion: Vox
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Senate trying to insert Russia sanctions into popular Iran bill
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Intelligence officials Rogers and Coats said they won't discuss specifics of private conversations with Trump
Tim Marcin / Newsweek:
DONALD TRUMP'S APPROVAL RATING IS BETTER THAN BILL CLINTON'S AT THIS POINT IN HIS FIRST TERM
Discussion: Daily Wire and The Daily Caller
Edward Morrissey / The Week:
James Comey's credibility problem
Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
Iran Assails Saudi Arabia After Pair of Deadly Terrorist Attacks  —  Iran's revolutionary guard lashed out at Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, hours after 12 people were killed and 42 others were wounded in devastating attacks on two potent symbols: Iran's Parliament and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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Holly Figueroa O'Reilly / Washington Post:
President Trump is violating my constitutional rights by blocking me on Twitter  —  The president can unblock me, or see me in court.  —  The president of the United States, the leader of the free world, has blocked me and others who are critical of him on Twitter.  —  Did I make death threats against him?
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Fox host to Trump: ‘Fake news media’ isn't the issue, it's you
Discussion: RedState
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
Blocking People On Twitter Is A First Amendment Violation, But Only When Trump Does It
JGoldsmith / Lawfare:
President Trump Nominates Chris Wray for FBI Director  —  This morning President Trump announced that he would nominate Chris Wray as the next Director of the FBI.  I worked with Wray in the Justice Department.  He was the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division …
Discussion: Washington Post and The Atlantic
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Trump to nominate Christopher Wray as next FBI director
Wichita Eagle:
Lawmakers override Brownback veto of tax increases, rolling back 2012 cuts  —  TOPEKA  —  Lawmakers rolled back Gov. Sam Brownback's signature tax policy over his objections Tuesday night, forcing into law tax increases to fix a budget shortfall and provide more money for schools.
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Hunter Woodall / Kansas City Star:
Legislature overrides Brownback's veto of bill that rolls back his 2012 tax cuts
Discussion: Shareblue
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Michael Flynn Had a Plan to Work With Russia's Military.  It Wasn't Exactly Legal. … Donald Trump's first national security adviser pushed so hard for the Pentagon to cooperate with the Russian military that his initiative would likely have broken the law if it had ever been enacted.
Discussion: Shakesville and Raw Story
Us Weekly:
How Ivanka Trump Influences Her Father Donald Trump  —  She got it from her mama.  At just 5 years old, Arabella Kushner already has mom Ivanka Trump's defining characteristic, the former Trump Organization VP revealed in a September interview with Harper's Bazaar: “She knows exactly what to say to get what she wants.”
Mrs. S. F. Kistler / The Federalist:
I Bake New Neighbors Bread To Welcome Them, And They Never Say Hello to Me Again  —  Let me tell you about my Southern California neighborhood.  I have lived in this one for 22 years.  I don't know anyone, but it's not for lack of trying.  Each time a new neighbor moves in I bake a loaf of bread and take it to them.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Sessions allies angry about Spicer refusing to defend him  —  Jeff Sessions' close allies in the administration are infuriated that Press Secretary Sean Spicer declined to publicly voice confidence in the Attorney General from the podium.  During Tuesday's White House press briefing …
Discussion: ABC News, Daily Kos and Raw Story
New York Times:
How Russian Propaganda Spread From a Parody Website to Fox News  —  Made up Russian attack on U.S. ship Invented a quote from a U.S. Air Force general Reprinted article with only hints of skepticism  —  Parody website Made up Russian attack on U.S. ship  —  Invented a quote from a U.S. Air Force
Rachael Burford / Daily Mail:
Female nursery worker is stabbed by three women in London  —  A nursery worker was stabbed by three women as they chanted ‘Allah will get you’.  —  Karrien Stevens, who runs Little Diamonds nursery in Hermon Hill, London confirmed that a member of staff, aged in her 30s …
Discussion: Blazing Cat Fur
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Eric Trump: Dems ‘not even people’  —  President Trump's son Eric Trump on Tuesday said Democrats are “not even people” to him after their obstruction of his father's agenda.  —  “I've never seen hatred like this,” he said on Fox News's “Hannity” Tuesday night.  “To me, they're not even people.
Alexander Bisley / Vox:
He was an ardent WikiLeaks supporter.  Then he got to know Julian Assange.  —  A conversation with British journalist Andrew O'Hagan, former ghostwriter for Assange.  —  Andrew O'Hagan was an ardent supporter of WikiLeaks, or at least the romanticized idea of it, when he began ghostwriting …
Discussion: The Hill
Kara Swisher / Recode:
A top Uber executive, who obtained the medical records of a customer who was a rape victim, is fired  —  Sources say Eric Alexander carried around for a year confidential information about a woman who was assaulted during a ride in India in 2014.  —  A top Uber executive obtained medical records …
House Oversight Dems / Oversight Democrats:
Sessions Declines to Testify Before Oversight Committee  —  Will Not Send Other DOJ Officials or Answer Any Written Questions  —  The Department of Justice has informed the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that Attorney General Jeff Sessions will not testify at today's hearing …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Stephen Dziedzic / ABC:
Donald Trump's alleged Russia links will dwarf Watergate scandal, says James Clapper  —  The man privy to America's darkest intelligence secrets for the past six years has predicted Russian links to the Trump administration will dwarf the 1970s Watergate scandal which sunk the Nixon presidency.
Discussion: The Atlantic, RedState and Gizmodo
New York Times:
The Mayors of Pittsburgh and Paris: We Have Our Own Climate Deal  —  Last week, President Donald Trump tried to pit our two cities against each other when he announced, in pulling out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.”
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Breitbart News seems to be cleaning house after readers and advertisers drift away  —  The clarion of the far right seems to be having second thoughts with how far right it wants to go.  —  Faced with an advertiser boycott and plummeting readership, Breitbart News has lately been trimming …
 
 
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James Law / NEWS.com.au:
Protesters get more than they bargain for when Andrew Bolt bashes back
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Mark Niquette / Bloomberg:
Trump to Outline Infrastructure Plan That Includes Rural Funding
Discussion: Mediaite
Brian Koerber / Mashable:
PETA's new formula: deception, manipulation, and fake animal abuse
James Delingpole / Breitbart:
“Global warming” is a myth — so say 80 graphs from 58 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in 2017.
Discussion: Climate Depot
Lynn Cook / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Oil Exports Double, Reshaping Vast Global Markets
Discussion: Mother Jones
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
Air Force Chief Vows to Avoid Excess Secrecy Over U.S. Bomber
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
They're on Obamacare, they voted for Trump, and they're already disappointed
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Ronald Murdock / Associated Press:
Man with HIV charged with murder after girlfriend dies of AIDS
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Bill Murray / Real Clear Politics:
The Media Have Been Played by Trump's Tweets
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Motoko Rich / New York Times:
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CNN:
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