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Trump Sought to Fire Mueller in December — In early December, President Trump, furious over news reports about a new round of subpoenas from the office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, told advisers in no uncertain terms that Mr. Mueller's investigation had to be shut down.
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Trump considering firing Rosenstein to check Mueller — (CNN)President Donald Trump is considering firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, multiple people familiar with the discussions tell CNN, a move that has gained urgency following the raid of the office of the President's personal lawyer.
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At the White House, Trump Takes Selfies and Seethes Over Mueller — WASHINGTON — Outside the White House, President Trump grinned for selfies with Alabama's Crimson Tide, telling the college football champions that they had beaten their rivals so brutally, “you flat-out made them quit” …
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Isaac Chotiner / Slate:
“The ACLU Would Be Up in Arms” — On Tuesday night, with reports circulating that he was furious about both the raid on the offices of his lawyer, Michael Cohen, and the gathering force of the Mueller investigation, President Trump dined with famed law professor and pundit Alan Dershowitz.
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New York Times:
Raid on Trump's Lawyer Sought Records of Payments to Women — WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. agents who raided the office of President Trump's personal lawyer on Monday were looking for records about payments to two women who claim they had affairs with Mr. Trump, and information related …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
With Scant Precedent, White House Insists Trump Could Fire Mueller Himself — WASHINGTON — As President Trump continued to fume on Tuesday about the Justice Department's raids on the office and hotel room of his longtime personal lawyer, the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders …
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
President Trump has never been in more trouble than right now … As you've heard, federal agents raided the office and home of Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer. Yet despite how rare an action it is to pierce attorney-client privilege this way, the big-picture story here seems inevitable …
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Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
How the Cohen Raids and Trump's Reactions Edge Us Toward Confrontation — The country is entering a dangerous moment—the moment of actual confrontation between the president of the United States and those who would investigate him. — This moment has been deferred for months through a combination of strategies.
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New York Times:
The Law Is Coming, Mr. Trump — Why don't we take a step back and contemplate what Americans, and the world, are witnessing? — Early Monday morning, F.B.I. agents raided the New York office, home and hotel room of the personal lawyer for the president of the United States.
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Dana Boente, former top Justice Department official now at FBI, has been interviewed by Mueller and turned over notes
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Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
Are Reporters Goading Trump Into Firing Mueller When They Scream at Him Constantly About Firing Mueller?
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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
US Attorney, Trump appointee, recused from Michael Cohen investigation
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump: ‘Many people have said’ I should fire Mueller
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Schumer: It's time to vote on legislation protecting Mueller
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Don Lemon / CNN:
Michael Cohen to CNN: FBI was ‘professional, courteous, respectful’ in raids, counter to Trump's depiction — New York (CNN)In his first comments since the FBI raid on his home and office, Michael Cohen said the FBI agents “were extremely professional, courteous and respectful.”
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Associated Press:
After FBI raids, Trump's longtime fixer out of the shadows — NEW YORK (AP) — For more than a decade, Michael Cohen has been President Donald Trump's private attorney — and so much more. Cohen is a street-wise New Yorker with a penchant for confrontation and a cultivated reputation as Trump's outside-the-courtroom problem-solver.
Michael Rothfeld / Wall Street Journal:
Feds Seek Stormy Daniels Documents Tied to Trump Organization
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New York Times:
Facebook Fallout Deals Blow to Mercers' Political Clout — Last month, a friend of the wealthy conservative donor Rebekah Mercer arrived at Facebook's Silicon Valley headquarters. His task: Find out what — if anything — could repair relations between Facebook, the world's biggest social media company …
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Thomas Frank / BuzzFeed:
A Conservative Party Donor And Brexit Supporter Resigns From Cambridge Analytica Parent
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp: Trump ‘asked me to switch parties’ … Donald Trump was still weeks away from being sworn in as president when, according to one Democratic senator, he was already trying to get her to defect to the Republicans. — “When I visited with him in Trump Tower …
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Aubree Eliza Weaver / Politico:
Zuckerberg hearing: Grasping — and grasping for — tech terms — Technology can prove confusing for even the most knowledgeable. There were a few moments during Tuesday's testimony by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg before the Senate Judiciary and Senate Commerce committees that left lawmakers …
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The Latest: Zuckerberg says Facebook has seen no falloff
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Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“He's Sitting There Bitching and Moaning”: Inside Trumpworld, Allies Fear the Boss Could Go Postal and Fire Mueller — Trump's friends say the president is “dry tinder” awaiting a match. Meanwhile, his latest hires are already creating new management nightmares for John Kelly.
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Christopher Williams / Telegraph:
European Commission raids Murdoch's Fox offices in London — The British offices of the Murdoch entertainment empire 21st Century Fox have been raided by investigators from the European Commission, The Daily Telegraph can reveal. — It is understood that competition watchdogs gained access …
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New York Times:
E.P.A. Assesses Threats on Twitter to Justify Pruitt's Spending — WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has been examining posts on Twitter and other social media about Scott Pruitt, the agency's administrator, to justify his extraordinary and costly security measures …
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Emily Holden / Politico:
Exclusive: EPA removes staffer who OK'd report on Pruitt's security
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Daily Mail:
Justice Department violated Michael Cohen's constitutional rights just by seizing his records, Alan Dershowitz tells DailyMail.com - hours before Harvard law professor has dinner with Trump — Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz will have dinner Tuesday at the White House with President Donald Trump
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Ben Collins / NBC News:
Russia-linked account pushed fake Hillary Clinton sex video — A pornographic video that falsely claimed to show Hillary Clinton engaged in a sex act has been traced back to an account that Reddit acknowledged on Tuesday is linked to Russia's Internet Research Agency.
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
The First Couple of Trump's America — Clarence Thomas is moving closer to the right-wing fringe. His wife Ginni is already there. — Clarence Thomas is a Supreme Court justice whose former clerks form the intellectual backbone of the Trump administration.
Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Military Strike on Syria Will Be Illegal … With much of the world bracing for Donald Trump's new missile strikes on Syria, the president's legal authority to attack Bashar Assad is conspicuously AWOL. — Assad isn't subject to either of the two authorizations Congress passed after 9/11 to bless the use of military force.
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How Nick Saban addressed White House trip, what Alabama players think — What Alabama players think of White House visit — There was no controversy within the Alabama locker room when the football program accepted the invitation to attend the White House on Tuesday to celebrate the 2017 national title.
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