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11:50 PM ET, April 13, 2018

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New York Times:
Trump Sees Inquiry Into Cohen as Greater Threat Than Mueller  —  President Trump's advisers have concluded that a wide-ranging corruption investigation in New York poses a greater and more imminent threat to the president than even the special counsel's investigation, according to several people close to Mr. Trump.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Negotiated $1.6 Million Settlement for Top Republican Fundraiser  —  The 2017 deal was on behalf of Elliott Broidy, a businessman who faced allegations he impregnated a former Playboy model, and resembles one Mr. Cohen arranged with Stormy Daniels
CNN:
Exclusive: FBI seized recordings between Trump's lawyer and Stormy Daniels' former lawyer  —  (CNN)The FBI seized recordings President Donald Trump's attorney made of his conversations with a lawyer representing two women who had alleged affairs with Trump, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.
Discussion: Vox, HuffPost and Mediaite
Justin Miller / The Daily Beast:
Prosecutors Probing Michael Cohen Have Nailed Financial Frauds, Corrupt Pols and Organized Crooks … Michael Cohen has never faced attorneys like the ones investigating him.  —  The federal prosecutors looking into Cohen, the longtime lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump …
Marcy Wheeler / New York Times:
Trump Pardoned Libby to Protect Himself From Mueller  —  “There is a cloud over the White House as to what happened.  Don't you think the F.B.I., the grand jury, the American people are entitled to a straight answer?”  —  With those words, uttered over a decade ago, Patrick Fitzgerald …
Discussion: USA Today, Breitbart, CNN, Splinter and NBC News
Wall Street Journal:
Elliott Broidy Quits RNC Post After Report on Payment to Ex-Model  —  Fundraiser agreed to pay $1.6 million to woman who said he had impregnated her, Wall Street Journal reported  —  GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy on Friday resigned from his post as deputy national finance chairman …
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:   Trump Is Trying To Save His Dying Presidency By Pardoning Scooter Libby
Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Trump lawyer Michael Cohen under criminal investigation
Discussion: Bloomberg
CNN:   Exclusive: FBI raid sought information on taxi owners linked to Trump's lawyer
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Sources: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier  —  WASHINGTON  —  The Justice Department special counsel has evidence that Donald Trump's personal lawyer and confidant, Michael Cohen, secretly made a late-summer trip to Prague during the 2016 presidential campaign …
New York Times:
Trump Orders Strikes on Syria Over Suspected Chemical Weapons Attack  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Friday he had ordered strikes on Syrian targets, seeking to punish President Bashar al-Assad for a suspected chemical attack near Damascus that killed more than 40 people.
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CBS News:
U.S. launches military strike on Syria in response to chemical attack — live updates  —  The U.S. on Friday launched “precision” military strikes against targets inside Syria linked to recent chemical attacks, said President Trump in a statement from the White House.
CNN:
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Seeks Large Strike in Syria; Mattis Urges Caution  —  President and defense secretary differ on response to suspected Syrian chemical attack  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump is prodding his military advisers to agree to a more sweeping retaliatory strike in Syria than they consider prudent …
Discussion: HuffPost and CNBC
Washington Post:
U.S. launches missile strikes in Syria … President Trump ordered a military attack against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Friday, joining allies Britain and France in launching missile strikes in retaliation for what Western nations said was the deliberate gassing of Syrian civilians.
Vera Bergengruen / BuzzFeed:   The US And Allies Have Launched Military Strikes On Syria After A Chemical Weapons Attack
New York Times:
President Trump on Syria Strikes: Full Transcript and Video
NBC News:   Trump announces strikes on Syria following suspected chemical weapons attack by Assad forces
Joyce Karam / The National:   Trump at odds with Mattis on Syria military response, report
New York Times:
Former F.B.I. Deputy Director Is Faulted in Scathing Inspector General Report  —  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department inspector general delivered to Congress on Friday a highly critical report that accused Andrew G. McCabe, the former F.B.I. deputy director, of repeatedly misleading investigators.
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New York Times:   As Clinton Camp Denied Reports of Criminal Inquiry, F.B.I. Was Investigating, Comey Says
Lauren Effron / ABC News:
Comey says Trump asked if he could disprove salacious prostitute allegations in ‘dossier’
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein tells confidantes he is prepared to be fired  —  WASHINGTON — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has struck a stoic and righteous tone in private conversations he has had this week about the fate of his job as President Donald Trump has launched public criticism …
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Laura Jarrett / CNN:
EXCLUSIVE: Rosenstein consulted with ethics adviser at DOJ on Russia probe
Discussion: Hot Air
BuzzFeed:
A Former Russian Spy Worked On A Trump Moscow Deal While Trump Was Running For President  —  While Trump was running for president, his business team was trying to develop a Trump tower in Moscow — with the help of a former Russian military intelligence officer.
New Yorker:
Chick-fil-A's Creepy Infiltration of New York City  —  During a recent lunch hour, I was alone on the rooftop of the largest Chick-fil-A in the world.  The restaurant, on Fulton Street, is the company's fourth in Manhattan, and it opened last month to the kind of slick, corporate-friendly fanfare that can only greet a new chain.
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Brandon Morse / RedState:   The Left Needs to Chill Out About Christianity
CNN:
HHS official shared post saying ‘forefathers’ would have ‘hung’ Obama, Clinton for treason  —  (CNN)A political appointee at the Department of Health and Human Services shared an image in 2017 that said “our forefathers would have hung” Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for treason, a CNN KFile review has found.
Discussion: Raw Story and Balloon Juice
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
I'd Like to Offer This Sanity Quiz to All #NeverTrump Conservatives  —  Nicolle Wallace, David Frum, Joe Scarborough, Bill Kristol: Step right up.  —  I am told regularly by people I admire and respect to hold my cynical tongue about all the career conservatives and television flotsam …
Los Angeles Times:
Patrick Soon-Shiong plans to move Los Angeles Times to new campus in El Segundo  —  The Los Angeles Times this summer will move from its historic art deco headquarters in downtown Los Angeles to a campus currently under construction in El Segundo.  —  Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong …
Discussion: twitchy.com and 89.3 KPCC
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Los Angeles Times:
Patrick Soon-Shiong — immigrant, doctor, billionaire, and soon, newspaper owner — starts a new era at the L.A. Times
Discussion: CBS Los Angeles
WJBK-TV:
Black teen misses bus, gets shot at after asking for directions in Rochester Hills  —  ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (WJBK) - A 14-year-old missed his bus and it nearly cost him his life.  —  Things took a dangerous turn when Brennan Walker went looking for help at a Rochester Hills home Thursday morning …
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Trump, Gardner strike deal on legalized marijuana, ending standoff over Justice nominees … President Trump has promised a top Senate Republican that he will support congressional efforts to protect states that have legalized marijuana — defusing a months-long standoff between Sen. Cory Gardner …
Andrew Sullivan / New York Magazine:
A Democracy Disappears  —  So now we know how you do it.  —  I mean how you turn a prosperous 21st-century liberal democracy into an illiberal one, and then into a de facto dictatorship.  There are no tanks; no mass arrests of opposition politicians; no coups; no direct assaults on the rule of law; and no new totalizing ideology.
Discussion: Washington Post
Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Trapped In The White House: Many Trump Aides Are Too “Toxic” To Get Jobs  —  Companies that would normally jump to hire presidential aides are worried about the backlash and potential legal drama that comes with hiring the Trump brand.  —  Reporting From Washington, DC
Discussion: Political Wire
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Paul Ryan endorses Kevin McCarthy to succeed him as House GOP leader  — Paul Ryan says he thinks House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy is the right person to succeed him as House GOP leader.  — McCarthy and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, among others, are seen as possible candidates to lead House Republicans.
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Associated Press:
Trump sees ally in possible House leader ‘My Kevin’ McCarthy
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Chris Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
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Gabriel Pietrorazio / Campus Reform:
Black conservative shouted down for speaking ‘against own people’
Discussion: Louder With Crowder
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Real or ‘Fake News’? Either way, lewd tape allegations pose a challenge for Trump
Washington Post:
A flare-up in the struggle over the Virginia GOP's future
Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post:
Armada of US warships steaming toward Middle East
Discussion: Task & Purpose and Sean Hannity
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New York Times:
Flexing Their Support for Cuomo, Key Unions Leave Working Families Party
Megan Specia / New York Times:
How Syria's Death Toll Is Lost in the Fog of War
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Jim Norman / Gallup:
Trump Favorable Rating Dips
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Pro-Trump fundraising group refuses to give back $500,000 contribution from Steve Wynn