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10:05 PM ET, May 3, 2018

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NBC News:
Feds monitored Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's phones  —  EDITOR'S NOTE: Earlier today, NBC News reported that there was a wiretap on the phones of Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime personal attorney, citing two separate sources with knowledge of the legal proceedings involving Cohen.
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Washington Post:
‘I was going to get this over with’: Inside Giuliani's explosive Stormy Daniels revelation  —  He may have had a strategy, but Rudolph W. Giuliani hatched it almost entirely in secret.  —  The White House counsel had no idea.  Neither did the White House chief of staff …
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
EXCLUSIVE: Giuliani calls for Sessions to ‘step in’ on Cohen investigation  —  Rudy Giuliani called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions  —  to intervene in the Michael Cohen case and put the people behind the probe “under investigation” in a phone call with The Hill on Thursday.
John Santucci / ABC News:
Giuliani believes ‘50/50’ chance Mueller subpoenas President Trump  —  As Rudy Giuliani enters the center ring of the legal fight between President Donald Trump and special counsel Robert Mueller, the former New York City mayor is already anticipating one possible battle - a subpoena for President Trump to testify.
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Giuliani: I Don't Believe That Michael Cohen Was Wiretapped … President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on Thursday he doubted the veracity of a bombshell NBC News report from earlier in the day that federal authorities wiretapped the president's longtime counsel, Michael Cohen.
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Kellyanne Conway's husband just taunted Trump and Giuliani over Stormy Daniels admission in viral tweet  —  A conservative Republican attorney married to President Trump's senior White House advisor just posted a viral tweet mocking Rudy Giuliani's bombshell admissions to Hannity last night on FOX.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, USA Today and Mediaite
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders basically just blamed Trump for misleading her … Almost nobody was aware Rudolph W. Giuliani was going to blow up the Stormy Daniels situation Wednesday night, and press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed Thursday that this included her.
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Welcome To The Giuliani Phase Of The Trump Presidency
Peter Baker / New York Times:
New Revelations Suggest a President Losing Control of His Narrative
Discussion: TIME, Wall Street Journal and NBC News
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
NBC News corrects explosive story on Michael Cohen
Discussion: Shakesville
Wall Street Journal:   The Stormy Daniels Damage
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump and his attorney didn't tell the truth, if Giuliani is right. Will that change anything?
Discussion: Politico and twitchy.com
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
A Pruitt Aide's Attack on Zinke Angers the White House  —  As Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt faces a seemingly endless stream of scandal, his team is scrambling to divert the spotlight to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.  And the White House isn't happy about it.
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CNN:
Pruitt reimbursed himself $65,000 from Oklahoma attorney general campaign  —  Pruitt target of at least 11 federal probes  —  (CNN)A CNN analysis has found that embattled Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt paid himself nearly $65,000 in reimbursements from his two campaigns …
Washington Post:
Influential outsiders have played a key role in Scott Pruitt's foreign travel
Discussion: Political Wire and POLITICUSUSA
New York Times:
Pruitt's Coziness With Lobbyists Includes Secretly Buying a House With One
Discussion: CNN and The Root
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
House chaplain rescinds resignation after furor over his ouster by Ryan … The Rev. Patrick J. Conroy, the House chaplain who announced his resignation under pressure last month, informed Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) Thursday that he wanted to rescind his offer and remain in his position at least through the end of this year.
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Special counsel Robert Mueller focusing sharply on links between Trump confidant Roger Stone and former campaign official Rick Gates, sources say  — Special counsel Robert Mueller is focusing intensely on alleged interactions between former top Trump campaign official Rick Gates and political operative Roger Stone.
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Brandi Buchman / courthousenews.com:
Mueller Seeks 70 Blank Subpoenas in Manafort Case
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost:
Leak: The Atlantic Had A Meeting About Kevin Williamson.  It Was A Liberal Self-Reckoning.  —  In a staff meeting, Jeffrey Goldberg and Ta-Nehisi Coates discussed the hiring and firing of a conservative writer.  But it wound up being about a lot more than that.
Discussion: Mediaite and The Daily Caller
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Orders Pentagon to Consider Reducing U.S. Forces in South Korea  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to prepare options for drawing down American troops in South Korea, just weeks before he holds a landmark meeting with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Blankenship goes after McConnell's ‘China family’ in new ad  —  West Virginia GOP Senate hopeful Don Blankenship is amping up his racial attacks on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell with a new ad declaring, “Swamp captain Mitch McConnell has created millions of jobs for China people.”
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Kylie Atwood / CBS News:
U.S. freezes funding for Syria's “White Helmets”  —  Less than two months ago the State Department hosted members of the White Helmets at Foggy Bottom.  At the time, the humanitarian group was showered with praise for saving lives in Syria.  —  “Our meetings in March were very positive.
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
A New Book On Hillary Clinton Has Reporters Angry At The New York Times  —  Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images  —  At a book party Tuesday evening, reporters and editors at the New York Times toasted the publication of Chasing Hillary, a rollicking new memoir by Amy Chozick …
Discussion: Mediaite and twitchy.com
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Alan Dershowitz Hired as Harvey Weinstein Consultant  —  The Harvard Law professor is helping the embattled movie mogul get “exclupatory” emails from The Weinstein Co.  —  Alan Dershowitz may not want to jump aboard Donald Trump's legal team, but apparently, he has no qualms with advising Harvey Weinstein's legal team.
Twitter:
Keeping your account secure  —  When you set a password for your Twitter account, we use technology that masks it so no one at the company can see it.  We recently identified a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log.  We have fixed the bug, and our investigation shows no indication of breach or misuse by anyone.
The Texas Tribune:
Hysteria over Jade Helm exercise in Texas was fueled by Russians, former CIA director says  —  Gov. Greg Abbott's decision in 2015 to ask the Texas State Guard to monitor a federal military exercise prompted significant criticism.  A former CIA director said Wednesday that the move emboldened Russians to next target elections.
Liz Crampton / Politico:
Sam Clovis is leaving USDA  —  Sam Clovis, the former Trump campaign aide who had been serving as USDA's liaison to the White House, is leaving the Agriculture Department and will return home to Iowa, a USDA official confirmed Thursday evening.  —  Clovis' last day is Friday.
Discussion: CNN
David French / National Review:
An Open Letter to Trump's Evangelical Defenders  —  A Christian's primary purpose is not to defend his own religious liberty.  It's not even to fight abortion — as vital as that task is.  His basic task on this Earth isn't protecting Christian education or preserving the freedom of Christian artists.
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Tamar Auber / Mediaite:
Neil Cavuto Calls Out Trump on His Pattern of False Statements: 'Mr. President, That's Your Swamp'  —  During a monologue on his Fox News show Thursday, Neil Cavuto called out President Donald Trump for railing against “fake news” while constantly giving them ammunition with his inconsistent and often contradictory statements.
The Daily Beast:
Trump and White House Counsel Don McGahn Have Been ‘Barely on Speaking Terms’ … The addition of longtime Washington, D.C., lawyer Emmet Flood to President Trump's legal team on Wednesday marks a major win for another top legal adviser to the president who has, for months, been operating in the Trumpland version of Siberia.
Justin Elliott / ProPublica:
Whoops!  Jared Kushner Made Even More Mistakes in His Federal Filings  —  It keeps happening.  Jared Kushner filed the wrong information about two of his loans in Brooklyn.  He has had to update his disclosure form at least 40 times.  —  Jared Kushner's ethics disclosure filing misstated …
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
A serial pooper targeted a N.J. high school track.  It was a school superintendent, police say. … It was a disturbingly normal discovery for the students and faculty at Holmdel High School in New Jersey: human feces on or near the track and football field, found before the school day began.
Eric Swalwell / USA Today:
Ban assault weapons, buy them back, go after resisters: Ex-prosecutor in Congress  —  Ban assault weapons and buy them back.  It might cost $15 billion, but we can afford it.  Consider it an investment in our most important right, the right to live.  —  Gary Jackson never stood a chance.
 
 
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Eric Holthaus / Grist:
Humans didn't exist the last time there was this much CO2 in the air
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David Brody / CBN News:
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Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
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Discussion: NewsBusters
Ron Elving / NPR:
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Discussion: Mediaite
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
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Discussion: Vox