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8:25 PM ET, May 9, 2019

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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge fast-tracks fight over congressional subpoena of Trump financial records  —  NYT reporter calls Trump business losses ‘unbelievable’  —  Washington (CNN)Congress and Donald Trump's fight over his financial records is now on the fast track.  —  Judge Amit Mehta plans next week to weigh …
Discussion: Law & Crime
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Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump's inner circle frustrated by son's subpoena  —  Washington (CNN)Members of President Donald Trump's inner circle are frustrated that the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr., multiple sources tell CNN.  —  Those close to Trump are exasperated …
Politico:
Burr holds firm despite GOP anger over Don Jr. subpoena  —  The Senate Intelligence chairman has no plans to withdraw the subpoena for the president's son.  —  Richard Burr faces intense pressure from Republicans to drop his subpoena of President Donald Trump's eldest son and quickly wrap …
Wall Street Journal:
Burr Draws GOP Scrutiny for Subpoena of Donald Trump Jr.  —  Senate Intelligence Committee chairman has investigated President Trump in a more bipartisan fashion than some of his fellow Republicans  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee's decision to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. opened …
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Downgrades ‘No Obstruction’ To ... ‘Essentially No Obstruction’
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Republicans are hall-of-fame hypocrites  —  “In scandals such as this, it is always members of the president's party who have particular leverage, and therefore who have a particular responsibility, to hold the president accountable for his actions.”  —  So wrote noted Republican moralist Bill Bennett …
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New York Times:
Pelosi Declares Nation Is in a ‘Constitutional Crisis’  —  WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that the United States was in a “constitutional crisis” and warned that House Democrats might move to hold more Trump administration officials in contempt of Congress if they continued …
New York Times:
Trump Suggests Mueller May Testify; Pelosi Declares ‘Constitutional Crisis’
Discussion: Mother Jones and The Daily Caller
David French / National Review:
Against the Persecution of Bill Barr
Tara Palmeri / ABC News:
Kim Jong Un wanted ‘famous’ US basketball players as part of denuclearization deal: Sources  —  Ahead of the second summit in Hanoi, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un requested as part of the agreement between the countries moving forward that the U.S. send “famous basketball players” …
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CNN:
US seizes North Korean cargo ship, alleging sanctions violations
Washington Post:
Alabama Senate passes nation's strictest abortion bill, making performing the procedure a felony with few exceptions  —  The bill needs Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's (R) approval before it becomes law.  —  Conservative governors and legislators are using new highly restrictive abortion laws …
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John Solomon / The Hill:
FBI's Steele story falls apart: False intel and media contacts were flagged before FISA  —  The FBI's sworn story to a federal court about its asset, Christopher Steele, is fraying faster than a $5 souvenir t-shirt bought at a tourist trap.  —  Newly unearthed memos show a high-ranking government official …
New York Times:
It's Time to Break Up Facebook  —  The last time I saw Mark Zuckerberg  —  was in the summer of 2017, several months before the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke.  We met at Facebook's Menlo Park, Calif., office and drove to his house, in a quiet, leafy neighborhood.
Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Americans' support for impeaching Trump rises: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of Americans who said President Donald Trump should be impeached rose 5 percentage points to 45 percent since mid-April, while more than half said multiple congressional probes of Trump interfered …
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
Charles Leerhsen / Yahoo News:
Exclusive: Trump, the billion-dollar loser — I was his ghostwriter and saw it happen  —  On Tuesday, the New York Times scooped the world on the news that from 1985 to 1994, Donald Trump incurred the biggest business losses of any single taxpayer in American history.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Beast
Theodore Schleifer / Vox:
One out of every 11,600 people in San Francisco is a billionaire  —  Statistics like this throw into sharp relief the challenge for Silicon Valley and its leaders in 2019.  —  If you want to run into a celebrity, you go to Hollywood.  If you want to run into a billionaire, you should move to San Francisco.
Discussion: SFist and Curbed SF
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Kate Conger / New York Times:
They Got Rich Off Uber and Lyft. Then They Moved to Low-Tax States.
Discussion: National Review, NPR and Splinter
Polls:
Trump Bigger Factor than Obama for 2020 Dem Primary Voters  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Former Vice President Joe Biden is the clear front-runner for New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation Democratic primary, according to the first Monmouth University Poll of Granite State primary voters in the 2020 cycle.
U.S. Department of Justice:
Former Intelligence Analyst Charged with Disclosing Classified Information  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An indictment was unsealed today charging a former intelligence analyst with illegally obtaining classified national defense information and disclosing it to a reporter.
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
‘Things were often a bit not normal’: Rosenstein gets fond, jokey send-off from Justice Dept.  —  Rod J. Rosenstein, whose two-year tenure as the Justice Department's No. 2 official was spent in the eye of a public storm surrounding special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation of President Trump …
ProPublica:
Listen to TurboTax Lie to Get Out of Refunding Overcharged Customers  —  TurboTax successfully lobbied to keep the IRS from offering free tax prep.  Now it's pretending the government already does it. … The makers of TurboTax have long been luring customers into paying for a service …
Discussion: Above the Law
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
“I Don't Know Who ‘I’ Am”: Bernie Sanders' Brutally Honest Mayoral Memos  —  Sometime in the mid-1980s, about halfway through his eight-year tenure as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, Bernie Sanders flipped to a fresh page in a yellow legal pad and poured out his crippling sense of doubt.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
It turns out Trump's business success was a media-made myth  —  President Trump has finally proved, beyond any doubt, that there is such a thing as #FakeNews.  —  In the 1980s and 1990s, the media conspired to perpetrate a vast fraud on the American people.
Paul Waugh / HuffPost UK:
Trump To Be Denied Honour Of Addressing UK Parliament During State Visit In June  —  Unlike Obama, 45th President won't get to make an historic address to Westminster Hall.
Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez want to cap credit card interest rates at 15 percent  —  They have been reaching record levels as the Fed raised key interest rates and the industry prepares for the next recession.  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce legislation …
Jay Weaver / Miami Herald:
Trump cheered Patriots to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where Kraft was busted  —  The FBI has opened a public corruption investigation into Republican donor and South Florida massage-parlor entrepreneur Li “Cindy” Yang, focusing on whether she illegally funneled money from China …
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Joe Biden brings in massive cash haul at Hollywood fundraiser that draws donors from across the country  — Joe Biden rakes in over $700,000 on Wednesday at a Hollywood fundraiser, one of the biggest hauls so far in the former vice president's campaign to take on President Donald Trump in 2020.
Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:
Yes, Christians Can Support Trump Without Risk to Their Witness  —  Can an adulterer be a great surgeon?  If your child needed care and the best surgeon had cheated on his wife, maybe more than once, would you let him operate?  What if you are a Christian and he is not?  Does that matter?
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Al Green Claps Back After Trump Mentions Him In Rally Speech: ‘If No One Else Will Bring You To Justice, I Will’  —  The morning after President Donald Trump mentioned Texas Democratic Congressman Al Green at a rally, Rep. Green took to the floor of the House with a blistering response …
Associated Press:
Facebook auto-generates videos celebrating extremist images  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The animated video begins with a photo of the black flags of jihad.  Seconds later, it flashes highlights of a year of social media posts: plaques of anti-Semitic verses, talk of retribution and a photo …
Gregg Re / Fox News:
China, US trade reps meet for high-stakes talks with hours to go until $200B in new tariffs take effect  —  With less than eight hours to go until the Trump administration is set to implement a crippling new volley of tariffs on Chinese goods, trade representatives from the U.S. and China …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Pro-Trump group plans to spend $250M in six battleground states  —  An outside group supporting President Trump intends to spend $250 million in six battleground states as part of a major effort to boost his chances of being reelected in 2020, according to officials with knowledge of the plans.
Discussion: Political Wire
David Weigel / Washington Post:
The Trailer: Trumpworld's plan to reelect the president  —  In this edition: The Trump battle plan, ad wars in North Carolina, and a new poll from the first primary state.  —  Eight Democratic candidates for president are polling at zero in New Hampshire, and this is The Trailer.
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Trump's Most Nakedly Corrupt Tweet Yet  —  As the president props up lobbyists and cronies, Democrats must respond with aggressive oversight.  —  It used to be that I was concerned that the media was paying too much attention to Donald Trump's tweets; now I'm concerned that they're not paying enough.
Discussion: Splinter, CNBC and CBS Boston
 
 
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Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
Facebook and Twitter Refuse to Act Against Far-Left Troll Vic Berger, Who Smeared Family of Mike Cernovich
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Associated Press:
For thousands of asylum seekers, all they can do is wait
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Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
John Kelly Cashes in on Child Separation Policy He Pushed
Discussion: CBS News
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Only Trump can save Syria's Idlib, but time is running out
Kristine Phillips / USA Today:
Hero or villain? What James Comey's anti-Trump politics means for the FBI
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Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Democrats, the Economy, and the Election
Axios:
11 million U.S. workers are affected by Trump's trade war, and they're largely in Trump country
Discussion: Raw Story
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
GOP Firebrands Nunes, King, Hunter Suck Up Small-Dollar Donations
Discussion: Raw Story
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Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
Trump to nominate Patrick Shanahan to be permanent secretary of defense
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Gender balance ‘difficult to achieve’ in top EU posts, warns Tusk
Briana Stewart / ABC News:
Marianne Williamson's campaign says she's qualified for the first 2020 Democratic debate
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