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11:45 AM ET, May 14, 2019

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New York Times:
White House Reviews Military Plans Against Iran, in Echoes of Iraq War  —  WASHINGTON — At a meeting of President Trump's top national security aides last Thursday, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan presented an updated military plan that envisions sending as many as 120,000 troops …
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Los Angeles Times:
It's John Bolton's world.  Trump is just living in it  —  John Bolton, President Trump's national security advisor, is leading the United States in a dangerous direction.  —  In February, it was Bolton who reportedly pressed Trump to take an uncompromising line on denuclearization …
New York Times:
It's Time for the Leaders of Saudi Arabia and Iran to Talk  —  Two foreign policy experts, from each side of the Islamic Middle East's most prominent rivalry, say common ground can be found.  —  Mr. Mousavian was a spokesman for the Iranian nuclear negotiation team between 2003 and 2005.
USA Today:
Trump is edging toward a disastrous war with Iran. Stop the brinksmanship: Murphy & Himes
Discussion: Bloomberg
New York Times:
Barr Assigns U.S. Attorney in Connecticut to Review Origins of Russia Inquiry  —  WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr has assigned the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut to examine the origins of the Russia investigation, according to two people familiar with the matter …
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Michael Balsamo / Associated Press:
AP source: Prosecutor to examine Russia probe origins  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was “lawful and appropriate,” …
Discussion: Daily Wire, Fox News, Axios, RedState and IJR
Laura Jarrett / CNN:   CIA, FBI, Director of National Intelligence working with Attorney General Barr to review Russia probe origins
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why was FBI so wrong in Trump-Russia wiretap warrant?
Shahien Nasiripour / Bloomberg:
Trump Tower Is Now One of NYC's Least-Desirable Luxury Buildings  — Most condo owners who sold since 2016 have recorded a loss  — ‘No one wants in that building,’ says one former owner  —  Trump Tower, once the crown jewel in Donald Trump's property empire, now ranks …
Washington Post:
Before Trump's purge at DHS, top officials challenged plan for mass family arrests  —  In the weeks before they were ousted last month, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and top immigration enforcement official Ronald Vitiello challenged a secret White House plan to arrest thousands …
Geoff Earle / Associated Press:
Don Jr.s high-publicity subpoena from Senate Republicans came after he backed out of TWO scheduled interviews behind closed doors - and wanted to give his answers in writing  — Republican Intel chair Sen. Richard Burr told colleagues Trump Jr. backed out twice before his panel issued the subpoena
Discussion: CNN, POLITICUSUSA and Contemptor
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Associated Press:
AP sources: Trump Jr. subpoena sent when interviews declined
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Times
Gregg Re / Fox News:
Rosenstein unloads on Comey, says he broke ‘bright lines that should never be crossed’  —  Rod Rosenstein unloaded on former FBI Director James Comey in remarks to the Greater Baltimore Committee (GBC) on Monday evening, slamming Comey's turn as a “partisan pundit,” reiterating that he deserved to be fired …
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Rod Rosenstein calls James Comey a ‘partisan pundit’
Discussion: The Week
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Rosenstein slams Comey for becoming a ‘partisan pundit’
Discussion: Fox News
Washington Post:
White House explores new farmer bailout plan as U.S.-China trade war heats up  —  White House officials are scrambling to come up with a new bailout plan to placate furious farmers after President Trump's initial idea of donating unused crops to poor countries came under scrutiny, people briefed on the planning said.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Political Wire
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump's long trade war
Discussion: Political Wire and Financial Times
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Don't Go Searching for Strategy in Trump's Tariffs
Discussion: Politico, Mediaite and Washington Press
Steve Bullock / YouTube:
Fair Shot  —  About a hundred years ago, this was “the richest hill on earth.”  —  The men who owned it were called kings.  —  With their money, they bought politicians; attacked unions, exploited workers, and left us all with a toxic reminder of what happens when our democracy is put up for sale.
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News:
YouTube's Newest Far-Right, Foul-Mouthed, Red-Pilling Star Is A 14-Year-Old Girl  —  “Soph” has nearly a million followers on the giant video platform.  Its executives only have themselves to blame.  —  What does a 14-year-old girl dressed in a chador have to say on YouTube to amass more than 800,000 followers?
Alex Thompson / Politico:
‘A hate-for-profit racket’: Warren refuses Fox town hall invite  —  Elizabeth Warren turned down a Fox News invitation Tuesday for a televised town hall and denounced the cable network as a “hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists.”
David Siders / Politico:
‘When Biden announced, everything changed’  —  First came the Cory Booker relaunch.  Then a pivot from Kamala Harris.  Now, Beto O'Rourke is hosting high-dollar fundraisers and courting national TV.  —  It's reset season in the presidential primary campaign.
Discussion: Fox News and Axios
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John DiStaso / WMUR:
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Sidney Blumenthal / Just Security:
An Open Memo: Comparison of Clinton Impeachment, Nixon Impeachment and Trump Pre-Impeachment  —  [Editor's note: Just Security will publish a series in conversation with Blumenthal's Open Memo including from John Dean, Ryan Goodman, Hon. Elizabeth Holtzman, Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer (co-authored), and Walter Pincus.]
Geoff Ziezulewicz / Navy Times:
The Navy's probe into sky penis  —  It prompted viral guffaws from some and online outrage from others.  —  There are shot glasses commemorating the event and it birthed memes ahead of the annual Army-Navy game.  —  But the inside story of how an EA-18G Growler jet crew drew a penis across …
Discussion: Gizmodo
Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times:
WhatsApp voice calls used to inject Israeli spyware on phones  —  A vulnerability in the messaging app WhatsApp has allowed attackers to inject commercial Israeli spyware on to phones, the company and a spyware technology dealer said.  —  WhatsApp, which is used by 1.5bn people worldwide …
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
NRA Legal Bills Raise ‘All Sorts of Red Flags’  —  Ollie North claims the NRA faces unfathomably high legal expenses.  Experts say his concerns are serious.  ‘The IRS would definitely be interested in it,’ one tells The Daily Beast.  —  Betsy Woodruff  —  “One hundred thousand dollars a day?
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge set to rule on Trump's subpoena challenge  —  President Donald Trump's strategy of outright resistance to House subpoenas will face its first test in federal court on Tuesday, setting up a ruling that could boost Democrats' efforts to investigate the president's business dealings.
Discussion: ABC News, Axios and Washington Post
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
The Damage That Harvard Has Done  —  Defense attorneys often arouse what John Adams called a “clamor of popular suspicions and prejudices” when representing reviled clients.  Just last week, the attorney Christopher Darden stopped representing a California man charged with killing …
Discussion: Townhall, The Ringer and Quillette
Andrew Perez / The Intercept:
Heidi Heitkamp and Joe Donnelly's Rural Voter Project Tied To “Medicare For All” Opponents  —  A dark money organization designed to help Democrats win rural votes in 2020 is getting support from anti-Medicare for All forces — and pushing their message with a pair of former Democratic senators.
Discussion: Splinter
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Republicans surrender to Trump's China tariffs  —  The GOP is starting to give up on thwarting President Donald Trump's trade agenda.  —  Senate Republicans acknowledge that the president's latest tariff increase on Chinese imports are harming farm state economies, their own constituents and some of Trump's most reliable voters.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Trump can't admit he enacted a new tax  —  President Trump cannot admit that the short-term effects of his tariff war hurt Americans.  He had to stop insisting China pays the tariffs when his economic adviser Larry Kudlow contradicted him on Fox News.  Trump then decided that we just buy stuff elsewhere …
Discussion: Raw Story, IJR, Bloomberg and KTLA
The Guardian:
Steve Bannon sought alliance with FBI in 2017 White House meeting  —  Bannon, then Trump's closest adviser, told FBI officials to put their past differences with the White House ‘behind them’  —  Steve Bannon urged two senior FBI officials to put their differences with the White House …
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Why did right-wing troll Charles C. Johnson want to meet with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross?  —  The year 2018 was not an especially auspicious one for Charles C. Johnson,  —  the Boston Globe has deemed “one of the country's most notorious Internet trolls.”  —  In June, Johnson agreed to pay $25,000 to
Maureen Groppe / USA Today:
Is there a Capitol jail where Democrats could lock up Trump aides who refuse to testify?  —  WASHINGTON - When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked recently whether Congress will hold administration officials in contempt for refusing Democratic demands for documents and testimony, she dropped this nugget.
Vivian Yee / New York Times:
Saudi Arabia Says Drones Hit Oil Pipeline, After Reports of Tanker Attacks  —  BEIRUT, Lebanon — A Saudi oil pipeline was attacked by drones, causing “limited damage,” the Saudi energy minister said on Tuesday, a day after Saudi Arabia said two of its oil tankers had been damaged in an act of sabotage …
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Democrats should be shouting Trump's trade failures from the rooftops  —  Markets crashing, farmers suffering, allies seething, manufacturing workers fretting about their job security.  —  These were all foreseeable consequences of President Trump's trade wars, which escalated in the past week …
Discussion: The Atlantic and Daily Kos
John McLaughlin / OZY:
Why Trump's Iran Strategy Puts America on the Road to Nowhere Good  —  Trump has given up allied leverage over Iran, setting America on a collision course with chaos in the region.  —  THE DAILY DOSE  —  I am struggling to understand the Trump administration's policy toward Iran and hoping …
 
 
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Retired Justice John Paul Stevens says he hopes Trump 'won't do too much damage' to the courts
Discussion: Political Wire
Jim Sciutto / The Atlantic:
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