MSNBC news host Joy Reid has been the focus of controversy this week over her old blog, and her assertion that someone may have manipulated the Wayback Machine's archive of that content to make her look bad. Read the rest

The FBI interviewed Paul Manafort two times when he worked as a consultant for a political party in Ukraine aligned with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in March 2013 and July 2014--that's long before Manafort teamed up with Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Read the rest

How the once mighty have fallen. Read the rest

Huge news from North Korea in advance of the North-South summit next week, and planned denuclearization talks with the U.S. President. Read the rest

The Democratic National Committee today filed a lawsuit against the Russian government, Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and WikiLeaks, alleging the Trump campaign 'gleefully welcomed Russia's help.' Court papers describe a far-reaching conspiracy to disrupt the 2016 presidential campaign, and throw the election for Donald Trump through a complex and well-funded global disinformation campaign. Read the rest

Trump's longtime strongman got benefits we're just beginning to learn about. Wonder why he needed legal representation? Read the rest

Congratulations, America! The electronic federal tax filing system offered by the Internal Revenue Service so you can file your taxes today just crashed. Read the rest

Russia's communications regulator says it has blocked IP addresses owned by Google and Amazon because Moscow claims the internet addresses are used by the Telegram messaging service that was banned by Putin's regime this week. Read the rest

This is a pretty amazing thing for a company as big as Starbucks to do. Read the rest

Actor Harry Anderson, best known for presiding over NBC's 'Night Court,' has died. He was 65. Read the rest

The United States and Britain today accused Russia of launching a new wave of internet-based attacks targeting routers, firewalls and other computer networking equipment used by government agencies, businesses and critical infrastructure operators around the globe. Read the rest

A federal judge rejected a request from President Donald Trump and from Michael Cohen, his personal lawyer, for a temporary restraining order to keep federal prosecutors from reading files seized in 'no-knock' FBI raids last week. Read the rest

In New York today, a judge ordered Michael Cohen to reveal the name of a third client, someone who didn't want to be named. It's Sean Hannity. Read the rest

President Donald Trump appeared on television tonight to announce that the United States military is now striking 'chemical weapons sites' in Syria by air, with coordination from the military forces of France and Britain. Read the rest

President Donald Trump endorses letting states decide how to regulate marijuana, White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders said today. Read the rest

Four days after FBI agents raided Michael Cohen and seized loads of potential evidence, President Donald Trump called his longtime personal lawyer just “to check in” and see how things were going, no big deal.

“Defense lawyers often caution witnesses and subjects to no talk during an ongoing investigation because it appears like they may be conspiring together,” says the New York Times' Michael Schmidt about the story. Read the rest

A court filing in the case of President Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen shows that prosecutors obtained “covert” search warrants on multiple email accounts belonging to Cohen. An early report says “Cohen is in fact performing little to no legal work,” according to sources, and “zero emails were exchanged with President Trump.”

If that's the case, attorney-client privilege doesn't apply.

According to all that is publicly known, Trump does not use email, personally. Others may read out the contents to him, or print out the messages. But he doesn't email.

Significant: In seeking the search warrants for Michael Cohen court docs say, the Government asserts concern "records could have been deleted" without the search of Michael Cohen's property.

— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) April 13, 2018

FYI: they are therefore arguing attorney-client privilege does NOT apply. https://t.co/rO981OrAsw

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 13, 2018

Breaking: Court filing reveals prosecutors obtained “covert” search warrants on multiple email accounts of #MichaelCohen, showing “Cohen is in fact performing little to no legal work, and that zero emails were exchanged with President Trump."

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 13, 2018

Breaking: US Atty in NY argues #MichaelCohenRaid sought evidence of conduct “for which Cohen is under criminal investigation.” Court filing redacts what he is under investigation for. Filing responds to Cohen’s motion to restrain evidence collected.

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 13, 2018

Trump doesn't use email... https://t.co/HDJjWY4DfJ

— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) April 13, 2018

Judge: “how did you get that understanding?”

Cohens lawyer: “discussions among the defense team about the case”

Judge: “who on the defense team said there were thousands?!?...How do you as an officer of the court have basis to tell me there are thousands of documents?”

😬

— Amber Jamieson (@ambiej) April 13, 2018

Just another Friday afternoon: Cohen search was separate from Mueller probe, prosecutors say https://t.co/pzaw3VuGMw via @bpolitics

— Joe Schneider (@joe_in_nyc) April 13, 2018

The government response to Michael Cohen’s motion to block review of the material seized during the search of his office https://t.co/5StphsLBxC

— Julian Sanchez (@normative) April 13, 2018

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