Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
4:55 PM ET, June 15, 2017

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Mike Allen / Axios:
Mueller's revenge: “Can't fire him now”  —  Most White House officials feared Robert Mueller would go after President Trump for obstruction of justice.  —  The signs were everywhere: James Comey's testimony that Trump urged him to drop the FBI probe of Michael Flynn; Trump's forceful denial …
RELATED:
Manu Raju / CNN:
Senate intel panel to steer clear of Trump obstruction question  —  Washington Post: Mueller investigating Trump  —  (CNN)The Senate intelligence committee won't probe whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice over the FBI's investigation into his former associates and their contacts …
Graham Lanktree / Newsweek:
TRUMP TRIED TO CONVINCE NSA CHIEF TO ABSOLVE HIM OF ANY RUSSIAN COLLUSION: REPORT  —  U.S. DONALD TRUMP RUSSIA INVESTIGATION NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY  —  A recent National Security Agency memo documents a phone call in which U.S. President Donald Trump pressures agency chief Admiral Mike Rogers …
Diamond Naga Siu / Politico:
Putin offers James Comey asylum  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said his country is ready to offer James Comey asylum if the former FBI director should face political persecution.  —  “If Comey will be under the threat of political persecution, we are ready to accept him here …
Bill Chappell / NPR:
YouTube  —  “What's the difference between the FBI director and Mr. Snowden?”
Discussion: Politico, The Resurgent and TASS
New York Times:
America's Lethal Politics  —  America's elected representatives enjoying America's pastime on a ball field just across the Potomac from the Capitol: A particularly American form of terror changed that idyll early Wednesday morning into what Senator Rand Paul, who was there, called “basically a killing field.”
RELATED:
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
The bogus claim that a map of crosshairs by Sarah Palin's PAC incited Rep. Gabby Giffords's shooting  —  “Was this attack evidence of how vicious American politics has become?  Probably.  In 2011, Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a supermarket parking lot, grievously wounding Representative Gabby Giffords …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Disgrace: NYT Editors Recycle Debunked Palin-Giffords Lie to Give Leftists Cover (Update: Oops)
New York Times:
Secrecy Surrounding Senate Health Bill Raises Alarms in Both Parties  —  WASHINGTON — As they draft legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Senate Republican leaders are aiming to transform large sections of the American health care system without a single hearing on their bill and without a formal, open drafting session.
RELATED:
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
I've covered Obamacare since day one.  I've never seen lying and obstruction like this.  —  Republicans do not want the country to know what is in their health care bill.  —  This has become more evident each day, as the Senate plots out a secretive path toward Obamacare repeal …
Discussion: The Atlantic and Mother Jones
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Republicans are about to make Medicare-for-all much more likely  —  If Republicans strike down Obamacare, the “Medicare for all” movement will become more powerful than they can imagine.  —  The details of the Senate GOP's Obamacare replacement plan remain a mystery.
Lenny Bernstein / Washington Post:
Why a single gunshot to Steve Scalise's hip could be life-threatening  —  For those of us who experience gun violence via movies or television, the single bullet wound to the hip that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise suffered in a ballfield shooting Wednesday would seem less serious than what could have happened to him.
Discussion: Axios and New York Magazine
RELATED:
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump: Scalise in ‘some trouble’ after shooting
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and Axios
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Scalise faces third surgery after being wounded in mass shooting
Jerome Hudson / Breitbart:
Home Depot Co-Founder Bernie Marcus: I'm ‘So Worried About the Life’ of President Trump
Stephanie Kirchgaessner / The Guardian:
Lobbyist for Russian interests says he attended dinners hosted by Sessions  —  Richard Burt contradicts Jeff Sessions' testimony that he didn't believe he had contacts with lobbyists working for Russian interests during Trump's campaign … An American lobbyist for Russian interests …
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
The surprising number of American adults who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows  —  Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy.
CNN:
Ex-North Korea detainee Otto Warmbier has ‘severe neurological injury’  — His dad rejects Pyongyang's explanation of his son's coma, criticizes Obama administration's handling of the case  —  (CNN)Recently released North Korea detainee Otto Warmbier has suffered severe neurological damage …
Discussion: IJR and Death and Taxes
RELATED:
9news.com.au:
Leaked audio reveals Malcolm Turnbull roasting Donald Trump over ‘fake polls’ and Russia  —  Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull isn't known for being a comedian but he tried some daring Donald Trump material on a room full of journalists in Canberra last night.
Justin Sink / Bloomberg:
Trump Orders Government to Stop Work on Y2K Bug, 17 Years Later  —  The White House is eliminating paperwork for federal agencies  —  Federal workers still report on preparedness for year 2000  —  Seventeen years after the Year 2000 bug came and went, the federal government will finally stop preparing for it.
Discussion: Axios and Washington Free Beacon
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Seventeen-Point Drop in US Satisfaction Among Republicans  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republicans' satisfaction with the way things are going in the U.S. took a hit since last month.  Forty-one percent of Republicans say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S., down 17 percentage points since May.
RELATED:
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:   The GOP's Risky Calculation for 2018
Bloomberg:
Trump Said to Announce Ban on Doing Business With Cuban Military  —  Americans' travel to island may be audited, Herald reports  —  New limits could reduce demand for air, cruise travel  —  President Donald Trump is expected to announce a ban on Americans and U.S. companies doing business …
Discussion: Politico
RELATED:
Daniel Ducassi / Politico:
Trump to clamp down on Cuba travel and trade
Discussion: Business Insider
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
GOP congressman: Trump may lack language ‘discipline’ to avoid appearance of investigation interference  —  (CNN)Republican Rep. David Schweikert said in a radio interview Thursday that President Donald Trump might lack the language discipline to avoid giving the appearance of interfering in an investigation .
Alex Acquisto / Bangor Daily News:
Maine woman attacked by raccoon drowns rabid animal in puddle  —  HOPE, Maine — While jogging on a familiar, overgrown, wooded trail near her home on a recent warm afternoon, Rachel Borch thought to herself.  “What a beautiful day.”  —  Little did she know she was about to be attacked …
Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Camille Paglia: On Trump, Democrats, Transgenderism, and Islamist Terror  —  In a wide-ranging interview Paglia talks about Donald Trump's successes, how Chuck Schumer emboldened the “resistance,” why the left can't condemn Islamist terrorism, and “the cold biological truth that sex changes are impossible.”
Discussion: Climate Depot and Althouse
Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
Graduating senior refused to read speech written by administrators, so they withheld his diploma  —  Marvin Wright, president of his high school senior class, spent two weeks working on his graduation speech, staying up till 5 on the morning of the event to finish.
Discussion: theGrio and The Root
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
GOP Momentum Builds to Change Rules for Longer-Lasting Tax Cuts  —  Senate Finance chief supports extending budget window  —  Treasury secretary said open to exploring longer timeline too  —  The push to change congressional budget rules and enact tax cuts for longer than 10 years …
Discussion: Political Wire
NBC News:
Qatar Buys U.S. F-15s Days After Trump Says Country Funds Terror  —  Qatar said Wednesday it has signed a $12 billion deal to buy F-15 fighter jets from the United States — just days after President Donald Trump accused the country of being a “high-level” sponsor of terrorism.
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 4:55 PM ET, June 15, 2017.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Terrence Dopp / Bloomberg:
Senate Votes to Limit Trump's Power to Lift Russia Sanctions
Discussion: ABC News
Trent Baker / Breitbart:
ESPN's Kellerman: NFL Is ‘Injecting Politics’ by Playing the National Anthem at Games
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Auto industry leaders raise concerns about border tax in White House meeting
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
DOJ seizes Jim Carrey movie as part of Malaysian corruption probe
Discussion: Raw Story
Alex Gangitano / Roll Call:
Congressional Baseball Game Ticket Sales Skyrocket After Shootings
Bloomberg:
Trump Administration Prepares a Drug Pricing Executive Order, Sources Say
Discussion: CNBC
 Earlier Items: 
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
GOP congressman: Cut back on town halls in wake of shooting
Jim Nelson / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
PenFed blimp, deflated, bursts into flames and crashes near U.S. Open at Erin Hills
Wall Street Journal:
Rural America Is Stranded in the Dial-Up Age
Discussion: The Week