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12:30 AM ET, May 10, 2019

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New York Times:
A Strategy Emerges to Counter House Democrats: Dare Them to Impeach  —  WASHINGTON — As the White House and Congress escalate their constitutional showdown, President Trump and his team are essentially trying to call what they see as the Democrats' bluff.  The message: Put up or shut up.
Discussion: Raw Story
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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 …
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Petitions with 10 million signatures to impeach Trump delivered to Congress
Discussion: Axios
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
Discussion: New York Times, Lawfare and IJR
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Democrats showing contempt by holding William Barr in contempt
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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Lily Batchelder / New York Times:
Trump Is a Bad Businessman.  Is He a Tax Cheat, Too?  —  The latest revelations provide fresh grounds for concern that he has violated revenue laws.  —  Ms. Batchelder is a professor of law at the New York University School of Law.  —  The latest bombshell Times story …
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
It turns out Trump's business success was a media-made myth
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Burr holds firm despite GOP anger over Don Jr. subpoena  —  Richard Burr faces intense pressure from Republicans to drop his subpoena of President Donald Trump's eldest son and quickly wrap up the Senate Intelligence Committee's Russia probe.  —  But despite a day facing attacks …
Discussion: Raw Story, BuzzFeed News and CNBC
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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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
Kaitlan Collins / CNN:
Trump's inner circle frustrated by son's subpoena
Washington Post:   Decision to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. sets off a Republican firefight
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Giuliani Plans Ukraine Trip to Push for Inquiries That Could Help Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, is encouraging Ukraine to wade further into sensitive political issues in the United States, seeking to push the incoming government in Kiev …
Discussion: The Week, Raw Story, New York Post and CNN
Abbey Crain / al.com:
Alabama bill would criminalize false rape accusations  —  A bill making it a crime to falsely accuse someone of a sexual crime was first read in the Alabama House of Representatives last week.  —  The bill, introduced by Rep. Dickie Drake, R-Leeds, would make falsely reporting a sex crime …
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Elisha Fieldstadt / NBC News:   Alabama bill banning nearly all abortions delayed after fiery debate on Senate floor
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 …
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 …
John Verhovek / ABC News:
Colorado students walk out as school shooting vigil turns political  —  A vigil held Wednesday evening to recognize the victims and heroes of the shooting earlier this week at a Colorado high school turned into a political protest after some students in attendance expressed frustration with the tone and focus of the speeches.
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Washington Post:
Trump and Kim battled subordinates ahead of spike in tensions  —  President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shattered more than a year of relative tranquility Thursday with the U.S. seizure of a North Korean vessel and the isolated regime's launch of two short-range ballistic missiles.
Discussion: BBC, New York Times and NPR
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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, POLITICUSUSA and TheBlaze
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 …
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.
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
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 and Splinter
Anita Hill / New York Times:
Let's Talk About How to End Sexual Violence  —  That's the most important conversation right now.  —  Ms. Hill is a professor at Brandeis University.  —  Last month, Joe Biden called me to talk about his conduct during Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991.
Discussion: Axios
Bonchie / RedState:
AOC and Bernie Have a Brilliant New Idea for Banking  —  There are dumb ideas and then there's whatever this is.  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders have teamed up to introduce the idea of “non-profit banking services” done via the post office, where sub-prime loans would be given …
Discussion: Hot Air and PJ Media Home
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Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Bernie Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez want to cap credit card interest rates at 15 percent
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.
New York Times:
Trump Increases China Tariffs as Trade Deal Hangs in the Balance  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump escalated his trade war with China on Friday morning, raising tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods and taking steps to tax nearly all of China's imports as punishment …
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Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter:
Three Production Companies Say They Won't Film in Georgia Over Abortion Law  —  David Simon's Blown Deadline Productions, Killer Films CEO Christine Vachon and Mark Duplass pledged to no longer shoot in the state as long as the law exists.  —  Georgia, no stranger to threats of boycotts due …
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
The Supreme Court, the Census Case and the Truth  —  Will the justices be the administration's enablers or form a firewall against its lies?  —  The smart money says the Trump administration is going to prevail at the Supreme Court in its effort to add a citizenship question to next year's census.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Poolreports / Public Pool:
Subject: Pool report 3: POTUS on Mueller/NK/China/Venezuela/Iran  —  There is NO service in Roosevelt Room but have been trying to send.  Here we go:  —  POTUS entered at 12:07 to talk about medical billing (more on that in a sec) then went on a tangent about Mueller, North Korea and China.
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
 
 
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Carla Marinucci / Politico:
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Chelsea Manning Has Been Released From Jail
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
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Trump Downgrades ‘No Obstruction’ To ... ‘Essentially No Obstruction’
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire
Chris Buskirk / American Greatness:
Yes, Christians Can Support Trump Without Risk to Their Witness
New York Times:
Two Suspected Russian Agents Among 14 Convicted in Montenegro Coup Plot
Discussion: Balkan Insight
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’
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
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Discussion: Politico
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
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Discussion: The Daily Caller
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