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President Trump’s legal team has been shaken up — with the resignation of spokesman Mark Corallo and the possible ouster of personal attorney Marc Kasowitz, according to multiple reports. Corallo resigned Thursday night, CBS News reported. The longtime GOP operative had been handling the White House’s defense in the wide-ranging Russia investigation, according to Politico. He had worked for the House committee that probed President Bill Clinton in the 1990s before leaving for the Justice Department under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft. Kasowitz — who represented Trump since the early 2000s and led the defense in the Trump University fraud case...

President Donald Trump 's outside counsel said Thursday that James Comey is lying. Marc Kasowitz claimed the president never demanded loyalty from Comey as the former FBI director alleged in Senate testimony. ... Comey testified that, at a dinner in January, Trump said, "I need loyalty. I expect loyalty." Kasowitz says Trump "never told" Comey that in "form" or "substance." He also denied that Trump said he hoped Comey could "let go" a probe into former national security advisor Michael Flynn. Trump never "directed or suggested that Mr. Comey stop investigating anyone," Kasowitz said. ... Kasowitz also declared that Comey...