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1:40 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.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
There's no indication Comey violated the law.  Trump may be about to.  —  President Trump's declaration that the Thursday testimony of former FBI director James B. Comey was a “total and complete vindication” despite “so many false statements and lies” was the sort of brashly triumphant …
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump's secret isn't that he lies.  It's that he crowds out the truth.  —  Trump isn't trying to win the argument.  He's trying to dominate it.  —  Donald Trump understands, better than any politician I've ever seen, that the question isn't whether you're winning the argument …
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 and Raw Story
Steve Vladeck / Washington Post:
Trump's lawyer says Comey violated executive privilege.  He's wrong.  —  That isn't how executive privilege works at all.  —  A few hours after former FBI director James B. Comey finished testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, President Trump's personal lawyer …
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.”
Washington Times:   Mr. Comey's not very good day
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Republicans' emerging Trump defense: A naif in the Oval Office
Discussion: Simple Justice and Politico
Susan Crabtree / Washington Free Beacon:
Former Official: Obama Admin ‘Systematically Disbanded’ Units Investigating Iran's Terrorism Financing Networks
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Daily Wire
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:   In denying President Trump's abuse of power, Republicans have chosen party over country.
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 …
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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 …
Charlie Cooper / Politico:
5 takeaways from the UK election
Discussion: Axios
Atrios / Eschaton:
The Kids Are Alright  —  No actual figures, but presumably …
Discussion: The Guardian and Balloon Juice
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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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 …
Peter Baker / New York Times:   For Trump, the ‘Cloud’ Just Grew That Much Darker
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
Washington Post:
Twelve seconds of gunfire … Recess had finally started, so Ava Olsen picked up her chocolate cupcake, then headed outside toward the swings.  And that's when the 7-year-old saw the gun.  —  It was black and in the hand of someone the first-graders on the playground would later describe as a thin …
Business Insider:
JIM ROGERS: The worst crash in our lifetime is coming  —  Legendary investor Jim Rogers s  —  at down with Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget on this week's episode of “The Bottom Line.”  Rogers predicts a market crash in the next few years, one that he says will rival anything he has seen in his lifetime.
Discussion: IJR
Nicole Carr / WSB-TV:
Prosecutors: Contractor wanted to ‘burn the White House down’  —  RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. - An Augusta woman charged with leaking classified information was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count, but prosecutors said they are likely to add more.  —  A federal magistrate judge held …
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Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:
Breitbart lost 90 percent of its advertisers in two months: Who's still there?  —  The number of advertisers on the alt-right site Breitbart.com has dropped 90 percent in recent months, from 242 in March to 26 in May, according to data from MediaRadar, a New York firm that tracks online advertising.
Discussion: Death and Taxes
 
 
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Jessica Durando / USA Today:
Japan's parliament clears way for Emperor Akihito's abdication
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
Lauren Effron / ABC News:
Chelsea Manning explains why she leaked secret military documents, fought for transgender rights behind bars
Fox News Insider:
Alan Dershowitz: President Trump Could Have Just Pardoned Michael Flynn
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Wire
Katha Pollitt / The Nation:
Lack of Empathy Is Not the Problem
New York Post:
Puerto Rican day parade loses half its floats over honoree controversy
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump just ended his second-longest Twitter drought since he declared his candidacy
Kate Maltby / The Guardian:
Theresa May rejected the Tory detoxification project. That's what's behind this mess
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The Local:
Catalonia will hold October referendum on independence from Spain
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Henry F. Cooper / Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Dreams of Turning Out the Lights
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
BREAKING: TRUMP fires back at COMEY: 'Despite so many false statements and lies, total …
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
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on its archived content, and to let ChatGPT respond with short summaries of FT articles

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Some founders say the TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump's 2020 ban attempt

 
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