Mon May 15, 2017 AT 12:57 PM EDT
U.S. lawmakers on Sunday called on President Donald Trump to turn over any tapes of conversations with fired FBI chief James Comey, potentially setting up a showdown with the White House as Democrats consider boycotting the vote on Comey’s replacement, reports Reuters. “You can’t be cute about tapes,” said Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. “If there are any tapes of this conversation, they need to be turned over,” Graham told NBC’s “Meet the Press” program.
- Politico: GOP Plans Could Kill One of Trump’s Favorite Tax Breaks
- Reuters: Trump Reassures Farmers Immigration Crackdown Not Aimed at Their Workers
- Boing Boing: FCC Halts Public Comments on Net Neutrality
- WashTimes: Tables Turned on Health Care: Now Democrats Have No Clear Plan
- Daily Caller: Violence and Intimidation Against Republicans Are Becoming the New Normal
Fri May 12, 2017 AT 1:16 PM EDT
President Trump on Friday warned James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director he fired this week, against leaking anything negative about the president and put the news media on notice that he may cancel future White House briefings, reports The New York Times.
- WashExaminer: Trump Lawyer: Tax Returns Show No ‘Income of Any Type From Russian Sources’ With Few Exceptions
- The Hill: CBS’s Schieffer: Trump ‘Making Fools of His Own Staff’
- CNN: AG Sessions Paves Way for Stricter Sentencing in Criminal Cases
- The Hill: GOP Senator Threatens to Block Trump’s CIA Nominee
- Politico: Tax Credits May Provide Rallying Point for Senate Obamacare Repeal
Thu May 11, 2017 AT 1:29 PM EDT
Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe vowed Thursday that he would tell the Senate Intelligence Committee if the White House tried to interfere with the bureau’s probe of possible coordination between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election — though he asserted that there had “been no effort to impede our investigation to date,” reports The Washington Post.
- WashExaminer: Democrats Prepare for War Over Russia Special Prosecutor
- Gizmodo: Russia’s Flickr Shows Meeting With Trump, While the White House Flickr Has Mike Pence’s Rabbit
- Townhall: Comey Says Goodbye to FBI Agents in a Letter: I Will Miss You and the Mission Deeply
- WashExaminer: White House to Launch Commission on Voter Fraud, Election Integrity
- Politico: FBI Agent Groups Dispute Trump’s Rationale for Comey Firing
