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12:05 PM ET, June 9, 2017

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CNN:
Trump's lawyer to file complaint against Comey over memos  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's outside attorney plans to file a complaint against former FBI Director James Comey with the Justice Department Inspector General and the Senate judiciary committee, two sources with knowledge of the situation told CNN.
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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Incompetence Defense  —  During former FBI Director James Comey's dramatic testimony before the Senate on Thursday, Republican senators settled on a pair of strange arguments for why President Trump hadn't obstructed justice: He didn't try very hard, or he was really bad at it.
CNN:
Comey told senators Sessions may have met Russia's ambassador a third time  —  Comey: AG may have met ambassador a third time  — But the sources said it is possible the Russian ambassador exaggerated the extent of the encounter  —  Washington (CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey told senators …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump's lawyer to file complaint against Comey: report  —  President Trump's outside attorney is planning on filing a complaint against fired FBI Director James Comey with the Justice Department over his handling of memos on his interactions with the president, CNN reported Friday.
New York Times:
‘I Was Right’: As Trump Watches Comey on TV, Anxiety Yields to Relief  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump dipped in and out of the small dining room off the Oval Office on Thursday to monitor a television as James B. Comey, the ousted F.B.I. director, told a tortured tale — and to insist to his huddled legal team, “I was right.”
Discussion: Raw Story, The Week and Politicus USA
Washington Times:
Mr. Comey's not very good day  —  ANALYSIS/OPINION:  —  One day of huffing, another day of puffing, and we're just about where we were.  Half of us want Donald Trump's presidency to succeed, whether we like everything about the Donald or not, and the other half regards him as the anti-Christ.
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Ryan denies GOP would try to impeach Dem accused of same actions as Trump  —  (R-Wis.) insisted on Thursday that Republicans wouldn't be calling for the impeachment of a Democratic president accused of the same actions as President Trump.  —  As fired FBI Director James Comey was before a Senate committee …
Discussion: Political Wire
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Republicans' emerging Trump defense: A naif in the Oval Office
Discussion: Simple Justice and Politico
Fox News:
Gregg Jarrett: Comey exonerates Trump - so much for obstruction
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:   In denying President Trump's abuse of power, Republicans have chosen party over country.
Wall Street Journal:   James Comey's Passion Play
Susan Crabtree / Washington Free Beacon:
Former Official: Obama Admin ‘Systematically Disbanded’ Units Investigating Iran's Terrorism Financing Networks
Discussion: Daily Wire
Juliegrace Brufke / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: White House Orders House Members To Defend Trump On Cable News Following Comey Hearing
Discussion: Vox, Politico, Just Security and IJR
Peter W. Stevenson / Washington Post:
Sen. John McCain's bizarre questioning of Comey
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Comey's Trump Testimony Will Haunt Republicans
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
The Fall of Theresa May — and Donald Trump?  —  Just a few months ago, it's worth remembering, we seemed to be careening to a new and possibly long-lived right-populist era in Anglo-American politics.  In the U.S., Donald Trump had stunned the world and his own party Establishment by seizing …
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The Guardian:
DUP leader vows to help bring stability to UK with Conservatives  —  Arlene Foster confirms she will be having talks with Theresa May about details of arrangement with Northern Ireland party  —  The Democratic Unionist leader and most recent first minister of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster …
Charlie Cooper / Politico:
5 takeaways from the UK election  —  An extraordinary night for British politics has ended in a hung parliament.  —  LONDON — It was an astonishing election by any estimation.  A prime minister humiliated, a Labour leader dismissed as a no-hoper massively outperforming expectations …
Discussion: Axios
BBC:
UK election 2017: UK set for hung parliament  —  The Conservatives have failed to win an overall majority, and the UK is now set for a hung parliament, says the latest BBC forecast.  —  It shows gains for the Labour Party after Thursday's general election.
Press Association:
Shock result as UK election returns hung parliament - as it happened
The Guardian:
May confirms intention to form government with help of Democratic Unionist party
Robert Barnes / LawNewz:
Comey was Before Congress to Indict Trump.  Instead, He Might Have Indicted Himself.  —  The key interlude occurred with the ubiquitous Kamala Harris, the same Senator Harris who failed the bar the first time she took the bar exam.  Only a Kamala-Comey marriage could birth this debacle:
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
For Trump, the ‘Cloud’ Just Grew That Much Darker  —  WASHINGTON — Upset about the investigation into Russian interference in last year's election, President Trump sought relief from James B. Comey, then the F.B.I. director.  By Mr. Comey's account, Mr. Trump asked him to help “lift the cloud.”
Bloomberg:
Comey Leaves Trump Under a Crippling ‘Cloud’ of Investigations
Discussion: Axios and The Atlantic
Greg Bluestein / Political Insider blog:
AJC poll: Ossoff opens lead over Handel in Georgia's 6th  —  An Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released Friday shows Democrat Jon Ossoff has a 7-point edge over Republican Karen Handel in the nationally watched race to represent Georgia's 6th Congressional District.
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Richard Elliot / WSB-TV:
NEW POLL: Ossoff support increases after debate with Handel
Kate Maltby / The Guardian:
Theresa May rejected the Tory detoxification project.  That's what's behind this mess  —  Once she talked of modernisation.  Then she allowed the flat-earthers of that toxicity, Lynton Crosby chief among them, to flourish at the top of the party … ost people have heard of the term …
Discussion: Refinery29
New York Post:
Puerto Rican day parade loses half its floats over honoree controversy … Folks attending Sunday's Puerto Rican Day Parade will have plenty of time to take a break between floats — because half of them will be missing, sources said Thursday.  —  The sources said only 25 of 50 scheduled rolling displays …
 
 
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Katha Pollitt / The Nation:
Lack of Empathy Is Not the Problem
Business Insider:
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump just ended his second-longest Twitter drought since he declared his candidacy
Daily Mail:
In one note, Winner allegedly wrote: ‘I want to burn the White House down and go live in Kurdistan’
The Local:
Catalonia will hold October referendum on independence from Spain
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
BREAKING: TRUMP fires back at COMEY: 'Despite so many false statements and lies, total …
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Daily Mail:
General Election exit polls see Tories lose majority
New York Times:
Resigned to Trump's Woes, G.O.P. Keeps Working on Legislative Goals
Dan McLaughlin / National Review:
Comey Wasn't Investigating Trump — But Look Who Said He Was
 

 
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