Evening Edition: Trump to Comey: ‘I expect loyalty,’ according to former FBI chief’s prepared testimony

Trump, furious and frustrated, gears up to punch back at Comey's testimony; Trump to nominate Christopher Wray as next FBI director; Intelligence officials Rogers, Coats say they won't discuss private talks with Trump; Trump's aides are quickly learning they speak for the president at their own peril; Morocco fossil find unearths oldest Homo sapiens ever discovered ; Breitbart seems to clean house after readers and advertisers drift away; Kansas Republicans raise taxes, ending their GOP governor’s ‘real live experiment’ in conservative policy; Trump’s sons recommend the high road they usually don’t take; Defense challenges Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand: ‘You changed your story’; Trump blocked some people from his Twitter account. Is that unconstitutional?; ISIS claims responsibility for two attacks that killed 12 in Iranian capital; EPA’s Scott Pruitt wants to set up opposing teams to debate climate change science; Trump nominates former Coast Guard vice commandant to head TSA;   Democracy Dies in Darkness     The day's most important stories   Trump to Comey: 'I expect loyalty,' according to former FBI chief's prepared testimony In written remarks submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee ahead of his Thursday hearing, James Comey recalled nine separate private conversations with President Trump, one of which he detailed the president asking him to drop any investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn. By Devlin Barrett  •  Read more » Trump, furious and frustrated, gears up to punch back at Comey's testimony The president's lawyers and aides have been urging Trump to resist engaging, but privately, they say they are bracing for a worst-case scenario when James Comey testifies before a Senate committee Thursday. Interviews with 20 White House officials, Trump friends and others reveal Trump's mind-set in the run-up to a hearing that is expected to be historic. By Robert Costa, Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker  •  Read more »   Trump to nominate Christopher Wray as next FBI director Wray is a former Justice Department official and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's attorney. Trump posted the announcement on Twitter, declaring Wray a "man of impeccable credentials." By Matt Zapotosky  •  Read more »   Intelligence officials Rogers, Coats say they won't discuss private talks with Trump Mike Rogers and Daniel Coats testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that they have never felt pressured to do anything illegal or that would interfere in an ongoing investigation. The Washington Post has reported that President Trump asked the two men to publicly deny the existence of any evidence showing coordination with Russia during the 2016 election. By Ellen Nakashima and Karoun Demirjian  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Trump's aides are quickly learning they speak for the president at their own peril From the travel ban to the FBI director's firing to new conflict in the Middle East, Trump has undercut his aides and Cabinet secretaries by contradicting their statements. By Abby Phillip and Jenna Johnson  •  Read more »   Morocco fossil find unearths oldest Homo sapiens ever discovered The 300,000-year-old modern humans are roughly 100,000 years older than other fossils of our species. By Ben Guarino  •  Read more »   Breitbart seems to clean house after readers and advertisers drift away Third-party estimates suggest the site since the election has seen much steeper losses in traffic than mainstream news outlets. Meanwhile, an advertiser blacklist organized by an anonymous online group appears to be biting hard. By Paul Farhi  •  Read more »   Kansas Republicans raise taxes, ending their GOP governor’s ‘real live experiment’ in conservative policy The vote to override Gov. Sam Brownback's veto of a bill that increased taxes by $1.2 billion is also seen as an implicit rebuke to President Trump and his fellow national Republicans. By Max Ehrenfreund  •  Read more »   The Fix | Analysis Trump’s sons recommend the high road they usually don’t take Eric Trump says he has "never seen hatred like this." He also says his father's critics are "not even people." By Callum Borchers  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Defense challenges Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand: ‘You changed your story’ In her second day on the stand, lawyers noted she gave conflicting dates for the alleged assault. By Manuel Roig-Franzia  •  Read more »   Trump blocked some people from his Twitter account. Is that unconstitutional? A First Amendment advocate has asked Donald Trump to unblock two particular users and said it may "seriously consider litigation" as it believes that blocking users from the president's feed is the same as kicking citizens out of a public square. By Travis M. Andrews  •  Read more »   ISIS claims responsibility for two attacks that killed 12 in Iranian capital Gunmen stormed two major sites in Tehran, killing at least a dozen people in gunfire and suicide blasts in parliament and at the revered tomb of the nation's Islamic revolution leader. By Brian Murphy and Kareem Fahim  •  Read more »   Capital Weather Gang | Analysis EPA’s Scott Pruitt wants to set up opposing teams to debate climate change science "This just feels to me a like another way to skirt the tried and true scientific process that has worked for years in our field and many others," one climate scientist said of the proposal. By Jason Samenow  •  Read more »   Trump nominates former Coast Guard vice commandant to head TSA If confirmed, David P. Pekoske will oversee roughly 60,000 employees who are responsible for security operations at more than 450 U.S. airports as well as the Federal Air Marshal Service. 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