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CNN:
Trump: I'm willing to testify under oath about Comey claims  —  Washington (CNN)A defiant President Donald Trump said Friday he was willing to testify under oath about his conversations with James Comey, further fueling the swirling controversy ignited by the fired FBI director's bombshell testimony before the Senate on Thursday.
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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.
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Did Trump just say he'd testify under oath about Comey?  —  Let's break down this confusing exchange at a White House press conference.  —  At a press conference Friday, President Donald Trump continued to accuse fired FBI Director James Comey of lying about his conversations with Trump …
Discussion: ABC News and YouTube
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 …
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 …
Bre Payton / The Federalist:
Did James Comey's Document Leaks Violate The FBI Employment Agreement?  —  During his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, former FBI director James Comey revealed that he was the source of leaked memos about his conversations with Donald Trump surrounding the Russia investigation.
Discussion: ABC News and TheBlaze
The Hill:
Trump refuses to say whether White House tapes exist  —  President Trump on Friday refused to say whether tapes exist of his conversations with fired FBI Director James Comey.  —  “I'll tell you about that maybe sometime in the near future,” he told reporters during a White House news conference.
Discussion: ABC News
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House Intelligence Committee leaders ask White House for any Comey tapes
Discussion: The Atlantic and The Week
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN Drops Reza Aslan Following Anti-Trump Tweets  —  CNN no longer believes in “Believer,” the non-fiction series it launched earlier this year with Reza Aslan, the Iranian-American author and religious scholar.  —  “CNN has decided to not move forward with production on the acquired series 'Believer …
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
CNN cancels Reza Aslan's show “Believer” after profane anti-Trump tweets
Discussion: Friendly Atheist
New York Times:
Trump Assails Qatar, Despite Tillerson's Call for ‘Calm’ in Standoff  —  WASHINGTON — Reversing himself again, President Trump on Friday delivered a stinging rebuke to Qatar, accusing the Persian Gulf nation of being a “funder of terror at a very high level” and demanding that it cut off …
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Rex W. Tillerson / US Department of State:
Washington, DC  —  Good afternoon, and I thank all of you for your patience.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump calls on Qatar to end funding of terror organizations
Discussion: CNN
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.
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Gillibrand rips Trump: ‘Has he kept his promises?  No. F— no’  —  (D-N.Y.) slammed President Trump with colorful language Friday, saying he has not kept his promises.  —  “Has he kept his promises?  No. F— no,” she said while addressing the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City.
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Adam Shaw / Breitbart:   Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: “If We Are Not Helping People, We Should Go the F*ck Home”
Maggie Serota / Death and Taxes:
Senator Gillibrand on Democrats: 'If we're not helping people, we should go the f**k home'
Discussion: The Week and The Daily Caller
John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump Treasury nominee misrepresented Dartmouth degree  —  President Trump's nominee to run a U.S. regulator office has been misrepresenting his college degree, Bloomberg News reported Friday.  —  Joseph Otting, Trump's pick to run the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency …
Discussion: NECN, Raw Story and CNBC
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Trump aide reprimanded over Hatch Act violation  —  The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has issued a warning to White House social media director Dan Scavino for using Twitter to interfere with an election.  —  The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) …
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Matea Gold / Washington Post:
White House social-media director Dan Scavino violated Hatch Act with tweet targeting GOP congressman
Discussion: Axios, Politico, Mashable and Political Wire
Robbie Gramer / Foreign Policy:
Trump Discovers Article 5 After Disastrous NATO Visit  —  Trump's public performance in Brussels was a disaster.  Behind closed doors, it was even worse.  —  At long last, U.S. President Donald Trump endorsed NATO's bedrock collective defense clause, Article 5, in a press conference Friday.
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 Arlene Foster vows to bring stability to UK with Conservatives
Dan Alexander / Forbes:
New York Attorney General Looking Into Eric Trump Foundation  —  The New York attorney general, which has been investigating the Donald J. Trump Foundation for months, is now looking into the Eric Trump Foundation, after a report in Forbes exposed practices that seem to violate state laws.
Carrie Johnson / NPR:
Special Counsel Robert Mueller Had Been On White House Shortlist To Run FBI  —  The Trump White House had been considering Robert Mueller as a top candidate to lead the FBI before the deputy U.S. attorney general changed course and tapped Mueller to serve as special counsel investigating Russian interference …
Stephen Miller / Heat Street:
My Adventures at the Segregated ‘Wonder Woman’ Screening  —  I didn't know what to expect showing up to an advertised all women's screening of Wonder Woman where radical outrage mongers on Twitter were offering bounties to either mace me in the face or dump soda on my head.
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:
Chris Villani / Boston Herald:
Jeb Bush backs president, but says ‘who cares what I think?’  —  Former Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush said he doesn't think President Trump obstructed justice when he fired former FBI director James B. Comey.  —  When Bush, who spoke yesterday to a standing-room …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump targets illegal immigrants who were given reprieves from deportation by Obama  —  In September 2014, Gilberto Velasquez, a 38-year-old house painter from El Salvador, received life-changing news: The U.S. government had decided to shelve its deportation action against him.
Discussion: Hit & Run, Daily Kos and IJR
 
 
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