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AT&T CEO says hiring Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was a ‘big mistake’ — AT&T apologized to employees Friday for having hired President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen as a consultant in 2017 for $600,000. — CEO Randall Stephenson said that the firm wanted Cohen to help …
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Talking Points Memo
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
AT&T CEO: Hiring Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was ‘a big mistake’ … AT&T made a “serious misjudgment” to seek advice from President Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson told employees in a companywide internal email Friday.
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Breaking News USA, The Week and The Root
Reuters:
Exclusive: AT&T CEO says Cohen payments ‘big mistake,’ chief lobbyist retiring — (Reuters) - Hiring President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, was a “big mistake,” AT&T Inc (T.N) Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson said in an employee memo, reviewed by Reuters, that went out Friday morning.
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Talking Points Memo, Engadget, Washington Times and Raw Story
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
Michael Cohen just got caught making the same mistake as General Flynn
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Bloomberg and Law & Crime
Washington Post:
Cohen's $600,000 deal with AT&T specified he would advise on Time Warner merger, internal company records show
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New York Times:
Homeland Security Secretary Was Close to Resigning After Trump Berated Her — WASHINGTON — Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, told colleagues she was close to resigning after President Trump berated her on Wednesday in front of the entire cabinet for what he said was her failure …
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Richard Gonzales / NPR:
John Kelly: Despite ‘Times Of Great Frustration,’ No Regrets Taking White House Job — President Trump's chief of staff, Gen. John Kelly, said that he's never seriously considered leaving his job and indicated that he's in lock-step with the president on many issues.
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, CNN, Politico, Splinter, Mediaite, AOL, CNBC, KTLA, The Right Scoop, The Week, The Daily Caller, Conservative News Today and New York Magazine
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN:
Kelly says Trump ‘somewhat embarrassed’ by Russia probe
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CNBC and Talking Points Memo
The Hill:
White House official mocked ‘dying’ McCain at internal meeting — A White House official mocked Sen. John McCain — 's brain cancer diagnosis at an internal meeting on Thursday, a day after the Arizona Republican announced his opposition to President Trump — 's nominee for CIA director, Gina Haspel.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook scoop: What State is telling embassies about Jerusalem
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The Hill, Washington Press and CNN
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: That's not what he told me! …
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Townhall, Roll Call, Breitbart, HuffPost, New York Times, Joe.My.God., The Daily Caller, Washington Post, TheBlaze, Mediaite and Daily Wire
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Fox Military Guest: Torture Is Good, ‘It Worked on John McCain’
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Michael McFaul / Washington Post:
The smear that killed the ‘reset’ — Putin needed an American enemy. He picked me. — From the beginning of the Obama administration, we knew we wanted to reboot our relationship with Moscow. I coordinated Russia policy from the National Security Council, and Russia …
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Andrew Osborn / Reuters:
Russia, after Netanyahu visit, backs off Syria S-300 missile supplies
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National Review
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
My journey to North Korea with the secretary of state … The State Department normally craves elaborate planning and procedures for everything. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's 13-hour visit to North Korea had little of that. — I had a view of the improvisational quality of his trip because …
Discussion:
The Daily Signal and The Daily Beast
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Jeremy Page / Wall Street Journal:
Damage to North Korea's Nuclear Test Site Worse Than Previously Thought
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The Week
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
How the Online Left Fuels the Right — I think I know what it feels like to be “red-pilled,” the alt-right's preferred metaphor for losing one's faith in received assumptions and turning toward ideas that once seemed dangerous. — For me, it happened over several visits to the West Bank.
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Washington Post, Hullabaloo, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Free Beacon, The Ringer and Instapundit
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
About That FBI ‘Source’ — Did the bureau engage in outright spying against the 2016 Trump campaign? — The Department of Justice lost its latest battle with Congress Thursday when it allowed House Intelligence Committee members to view classified documents about a top-secret intelligence source …
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RedState, Power Line, The Political Insider, Conservative News Today, Sara A. Carter, The Gateway Pundit, CNN and Instapundit
Ben Howe / The Daily Beast:
Dear Conservative Media: Do Some More Damn Reporting … The American political left has something that their counterparts on the right do not. — It's not a particular point of view, or a thing that is particular to a point of view. It is more foundational than that.
Olivia Solon / The Guardian:
They mock vegans and eat 4lb of steak a day: meet ‘carnivore dieters’ — For the last 18 months, Shawn Baker has eaten around 4lb of steak every day. — “I've got two rib-eye steaks waiting for me when I get off this call,” said the trained orthopaedic surgeon from Orange County, California.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Price of Getting Inside Trump's Head — Michael Cohen has profited from it, but we're all Trumpologists now. — On Easter Sunday, Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor, was holding forth in the green room at ABC News in New York before going on the air.
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Trump to Drop Call for Medicare to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices — WASHINGTON — President Trump will lay out on Friday a broad strategy to reduce prescription drug prices, but in a break from one of his most popular campaign promises, he will not call for Medicare to negotiate lower prices …
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Washington Post and New York Magazine
Adam Smith / Tampa Bay Times:
Florida Insider Poll: Doubts about Bill Nelson beating Rick Scott grow — Among more than 200 experts and veterans of Florida politics surveyed in the latest Tampa Bay Times Florida Insider Poll, nearly six in 10 this week said they expect Florida's Republican governor to unseat the three-term Democratic Senator.
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National Review and Political Wire
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Blankenship wants to ‘make sure’ Morrisey doesn't win Senate bid — Ex-coal CEO Don Blankenship, who lost the GOP primary bid in West Virginia this week, is actively plotting how to undercut state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's Senate candidacy. — Greg Thomas, an adviser …
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Political Wire, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Lena H. Sun / Washington Post:
Top White House official in charge of pandemic response exits abruptly … The top White House official responsible for leading the U.S. response in the event of a deadly pandemic has left the administration, and the global health security team he oversaw has been disbanded under a reorganization …
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CNN, Defense One, Outside the Beltway, Vox and HuffPost
NBC News:
Lawmakers weigh Plan B to protect Mueller's work — WASHINGTON — If Congress can't protect special counsel Robert Mueller's job, perhaps it can protect his work. — That's the thinking among several lawmakers on Capitol Hill, who are discussing ways to safeguard the special counsel's investigation …
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Washington Post and MSNBC
David Brooks / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Lizard Wisdom — We're all educated by our peers, and, over the years, a good portion of Donald Trump's peers have been thugs. Operating in the New York construction world meant dealing with S&A Concrete, co-owned by “Fat Tony” Salerno of the Genovese crime family …
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Washington Monthly, CNN and No More Mister Nice Blog
Stella Bugbee / The Cut:
Who Is Anna Wintour Asking Us to Forgive in Her Editor's Letter? — Anna Wintour is our Fashion Pope, the infallible ruler of Vogue, fashion's Vatican. Both because of her reputation — which is the stuff of pop-culture legend — and the reality of her power, she's not someone anyone in the industry dares cross.
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Loyalty, unease in Trump's Midwest — Voters gave Trump a chance. Some remain all in. Others have grown weary of the chaos. — After eight years of displeasure with the presidency of Barack Obama and faced with a choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Dennis Schminke of Austin …
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Former Western leaders join forces to fight Russian meddling … Right now the fight against foreign influence in democratic societies is a fragmented, partisan and poorly understood endeavor. That, however, must change. To counter Russian interference of all kinds, Democrats …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump Jr. prepares to hit the campaign trail ahead of midterms — is preparing to hit the campaign trail for Republican candidates ahead of the November midterm elections. — A source close to Trump Jr. says he plans to hold rallies and fundraisers for Republicans, particularly in states …
Discussion:
Splinter and Shareblue Media
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Tell us how this ends … So what's next with Iran? Even if you think President Trump has made a big mistake in withdrawing from the nuclear agreement, as I do, that's not the end of the story. Where does this bumpy road lead? — What's distressing about the Iran question is that nobody …
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Just Security
Axios:
First look: Mueller gains credibility among swing voters — Reproduced from Firehouse/Optimus; Note: Survey conducted from May 4-6 of 2,486 likely midterm voters in Florida, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio; Chart: Axios Visuals — Firehouse Strategies, a Republican firm …
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
The Wipeout of Obama's Legacy — President Obama's legacy is rapidly vanishing. The decision by President Trump to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran is the biggest blow, but it's only the latest. The elimination of the individual mandate and canceling the yearly bailout …
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