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11:10 AM ET, April 20, 2019

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Washington Post:
How a legal dispute between Mueller and Barr drove the end of the special counsel's probe  —  For nearly two years, the public, Congress and the White House waited to learn if special counsel Robert S. Mueller III would find that President Trump had committed crimes.
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New York Times:
Giuliani Attacks McGahn's Account to Mueller  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, attacked the credibility of a former White House counsel on Friday, saying his account of how Mr. Trump told him to remove the special counsel was inaccurate.
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Trump approval drops 3 points to 2019 low after release of Mueller report: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of Americans who approve of President Donald Trump dropped by 3 percentage points to the lowest level of the year following the release of a special counsel report …
Discussion: Mediaite
New York Times:
A Darker Portrait Emerges of Trump's Attacks on the Justice Department  —  WASHINGTON — Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, praised President Trump last spring for backing the rule of law and commended the Constitution and American culture for protecting lawfulness.
Lawfare:
The Mueller Report Demands an Impeachment Inquiry  —  Here is, as Bill Barr might call it, “the bottom line”: The Mueller Report describes, in excruciating detail and with relatively few redactions, a candidate and a campaign aware of the existence of a plot by a hostile foreign government …
Anna Dubenko / New York Times:
A Reader's Guide to the Journalism Behind the Mueller Report  —  If some of the revelations in Robert S. Mueller III's long-awaited report sound familiar, it's because many of them were previously published by The New York Times and other news outlets.  —  Times Insider explains …
CNN:
From ‘total exoneration’ to ‘total bullsh**’: Trump lingers on damning report  —  Washington (CNN)By the time President Donald Trump had passed through the prime rib buffet at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday to sit for dinner with family and a top aide, the damning picture Robert Mueller's report painted of his presidency had become clear.
Barbara McQuade / The Daily Beast:
Forget Roy Cohn, Future Presidents Would Ask 'Where's My Bill Barr?'
Discussion: Raw Story
Adi Robertson / The Verge:   The PDF Association thinks the Mueller report sucks
Washington Post:
Trump blames McGahn after Mueller paints damning portrait with notes from White House aides
Discussion: Raw Story and Conservative Tribune
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Collins: Mueller report includes ‘an unflattering portrayal’ of Trump
Discussion: Vox, The Daily Beast and Law & Crime
Carlos Lozada / Washington Post:
The Mueller report isn't just a legal document.  It's also the best book on the Trump White House so far.
Allan Smith / NBC News:   GOP Sen. Richard Burr apparently briefed White House on FBI's Russia probe, Mueller report says
PDF Association:
A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Mark Penn / The Hill:
Mueller's done, and Dems should be too — because Trump is no Nixon
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:   The Mueller Report Vindicates Bill Barr
Sohrab Ahmari / New York Post:
Top 10 things the media got wrong about ‘collusion’ and ‘obstruction’  —  The prestige press has some explaining to do — for subjecting the nation to a long, cruel ordeal named “collusion” and “obstruction.”  Almost two years and millions of column inches later, special counsel Robert Mueller …
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New York Times:
Mueller Report Likely to Renew Scrutiny of Steele Dossier  —  WASHINGTON — The 35-page dossier, spiced up with tales of prostitutes and spies, sketched out a hair-raising story more than two years ago.  Russian intelligence had used bribery and blackmail to try to turn Donald J. Trump …
Discussion: Althouse
David French / TIME:
Donald Trump Is Weak and Afraid.  The Mueller Report Proves It  —  French is a TIME columnist.  A lawyer and senior fellow at the National Review Institute, he is a best-selling author whose next book will be The Great American Divorce.  —  We now know for sure what kind of man Donald Trump is.
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Why was Trump so afraid of the Mueller investigation? We may never know.
Discussion: Snopes.com
Asha Rangappa / New York Times:
How Barr and Trump Use a Russian Disinformation Tactic
Discussion: Raw Story and FactCheck.org
New York Times:
The Mueller Report and the Danger Facing American Democracy
Discussion: Press Herald and Raw Story
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
In a Functional Country, We Would Be on the Road to Impeachment
Discussion: Vox, The Atlantic and Shareblue Media
New York Times:
Sanders's ‘Slip of the Tongue’ Would Be a Problem in Some White Houses.  Not Trump's.  —  PALM BEACH, Fla. — After admitting to investigators for the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, that she delivered a false statement from the White House podium, Sarah Huckabee Sanders …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Bonchie / RedState:
CNN's April Ryan Says Sarah Sanders' Head Should Be “Lopped Off”
Kyle Peterson / Wall Street Journal:
After 40 Years, C-Span's Founder Signs Off  —  Brian Lamb, the man who put Congress on live television, reflects on the results and explains why the Supreme Court ought to be next.  —  Washington  —  'Lying is the word that I would use to describe this town," says Brian Lamb, in his usual Midwestern deadpan. "
Peter Baker / New York Times:
‘I Do Not Remember’: Trump Gave a Familiar Reply to the Special Counsel's Queries  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has boasted at various points that he has “one of the great memories of all time” or even “the world's greatest memory.”  —  But the world's greatest memory failed him repeatedly …
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New York Times:
Should a White Man Be the Face of the Democratic Party in 2020?  —  COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — As Peter Johnson and Emily Neal waited for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to arrive at Barley's, a brick-lined sports bar in southwestern Iowa, they gamed out possible nominees in the Democratic presidential primary.
Discussion: Althouse
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:   ‘The Democratic base is angry as hell’: Cory Booker's message of love falls flat
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Mueller's report proves why Trump loves Fox News — and why he needs it now more than ever  —  It's no secret that Fox News and the Trump administration are deeply entwined with each other: They are the conjoined twins of misinformation.  —  So it hardly raised an eyebrow when the president took …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump campaign punishes Don McGahn's law firm  —  The Trump campaign has hired its own in-house attorney for its 2020 reelection bid — shifting future business away from Jones Day, the law firm, that has represented Trump since his first run for president.  —  Campaign officials and advisers cast …
Mark Hemingway / New York Post:
New York Times hits new low with mortifying Notre Dame correction  —  Just in time for Easter, The New York Times has been forced to run yet another correction that speaks to the paper's profound ignorance regarding the basic beliefs of Christianity.  —  In a Thursday report on the fire at Notre Dame …
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
The Legal Strategy That Paid Off for the President  —  Trump lawyers sought to limit his contact with Robert Mueller but cooperate elsewhere  —  WASHINGTON—When President Trump's lawyers met with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team last April to negotiate the terms of a possible interview …
 
 
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Caleb Ecarma / Mediaite:
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