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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
With cameras banned, CNN sends sketch artist to White House briefing  —  The White House has been prohibiting cameras at some press briefings, so on Friday CNN got creative and sent a sketch artist.  —  Bill Hennessy, the network's regular sketch artist for Supreme Court proceedings …
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
What Happens When a Presidency Loses Its Legitimacy?  —  Day by day, revelation after revelation, the legitimacy of the Trump presidency is seeping away.  The question of what to do about this loss is becoming ever more urgent and frightening.  —  The already thick cloud of discredit …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump loses patience with his White House counsel  —  White House counsel Don McGahn has largely stepped back from managing Donald Trump's response to the expanding Russia investigation, but that hasn't stopped the president from lashing out at him about it anyway.
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump is struggling to stay calm on Russia, one morning call at a time  —  President Trump has a new morning ritual.  Around 6:30 a.m. on many days — before all the network news shows have come on the air — he gets on the phone with a member of his outside legal team to chew over all things Russia.
New York Times:
T r u m p ' s L i e s  —  Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump's lies.  But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them.  So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office.
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Fifth GOP senator announces opposition to ObamaCare repeal bill  —  (R-Nev.) announced Friday that he is opposed to the Senate GOP's ObamaCare repeal bill in its current form, making him the fifth GOP senator to come out against the plan.  —  “I'm announcing today that in this form I will not support it …
Discussion: Politico, ABC News, IJR and The Daily Caller
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Pro-Trump group to target GOP Sen. Heller over health care bill
Bloomberg:
GOP's Heller Opposes Senate Health Plan in Blow to McConnell
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
Don't make things worse  —  The secrecy extended into the White House.  —  Rice , Haines and White House homeland-security adviser Lisa Monaco convened meetings in the Situation Room to weigh the mounting evidence of Russian interference and generate options for how to respond.
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Gowdy: Oversight panel won't pursue Russia, obstruction probes  —  Newly-elected House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Trey Gowdy does not plan to investigate Russia's meddling in the 2016 election or questions of whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice.
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Scott Wong / The Hill:
Gowdy won't use Oversight gavel to probe Russia
Discussion: RedState
Ale Russian / People.com:
Johnny Depp Apologizes for Joking About Trump Assassination: ‘I Intended No Malice’  —  Johnny Depp is apologizing for his comments about President Donald Trump.  —  The actor issued a statement exclusively to PEOPLE apologizing for the remarks he made Thursday in England at the Glastonbury Festival …
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Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: More Americans Believe Comey Over Trump  —  By a 2-to-1 margin, Americans say they are more likely to believe former FBI Director James Comey than President Donald Trump when it comes to their differing accounts of events that led up to Comey's firing, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
‘Fox & Friends’ propagates the most astounding piece of pro-Trump propaganda yet  —  Merely placing sweet little questions before President Trump isn't enough anymore, apparently.  These days, the treatment dished out by the “Fox & Friends” crew to Trump needs to include a bit of slander for the opposition.
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
CNN anchor: ‘Fox and Friends’ is ‘state TV’
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Bodley / San Francisco Chronicle:
California attorney general adds 4 states to state travel ban  —  The Attorney General of California is blocking state funded travel to Texas, Alabama, South Dakota and Kentucky for passing legislation that will discriminate against the LGBT Community.  Veuer's Jose Sepulveda(@josesepulvedatv) has more.
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
California restricts state travel to Texas, other states over LGBT laws
Paul Gutierrez / KHGI-TV:
Nebraska Democratic Party official caught on tape saying he's glad Scalise got shot  —  FILE - In this March 8, 2017 file photo, House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of La. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington.  Scalise was shot Wednesday, June 14, 2017, at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Va., congressional officials say.
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Jocelyn Kiley / Pew Research Center:
Public support for ‘single payer’ health coverage grows, driven by Democrats  —  A majority of Americans say it is the federal government's responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care coverage.  And a growing share now supports a “single payer” approach to health insurance …
Discussion: American Power
Fox Business:
Joe Biden's beef with Bill Ackman sparks heated exchange and presidential chatter  —  Some say former Vice President Joe Biden is too old to run for president in 2020, but he still knows how to throw a verbal punch — just ask financier Bill Ackman.  —  Continue Reading Below
Anne Gearan / Washington Post:
White House frustration grows with Tillerson over jobs for Trump allies  —  The White House is becoming increasingly frustrated with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and a close-knit circle of aides over the slow pace of hiring and a chokehold on information and access to Tillerson …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story and Political Wire
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Why Hasn't Trump Actually Nominated an FBI Director? … Attorney Christopher Wray is on deck to become the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, if the president ever gets around to nominating him.  —  President Donald Trump tweeted Wray was his pick on June 7, more than two weeks ago.
Discussion: Raw Story and Just Security
Harry Jaffe / Politico:
Jane Sanders Lawyers Up  —  Bernie Sanders was in the midst of an interview with a local TV reporter early last month when the senator fielded an unexpected question about an uncomfortable matter.  —  “There's an implication, and from at least one individual, an explicit argument …
Hamilton Nolan / Fusion:
It Is Humanly Impossible to Be a Good Newspaper Columnist  —  Becoming a regular columnist at a prestigious newspaper is one of the cushiest and most coveted jobs in journalism.  Strangely, almost every newspaper columnist sucks.  Maybe the problem is the entire concept.
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
The banquet business was booming at Mar-a-Lago.  Then Trump became president.  —  For eight straight years, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society held its Palm Beach fundraiser gala at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club.  —  But then Trump became president.  —  And, at this year's gala, his security put a damper on the silent auction.
Bloomberg:
Canada Ponders an Unusual Drug Problem: a Shortage of Marijuana  —  Ontario finance minister warns of looming pot supply crunch  —  Trudeau team favors low tax rate to undercut black market  —  The biggest challenge for Justin Trudeau's forthcoming legal recreational marijuana market is a shortage of pot …
Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues:
A legislative path to create new laws is better than arguing over old laws  —  Today the U.S. Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to reconsider a legal decision, in a case brought by Microsoft, which found that U.S. warrants cannot be unilaterally applied to email in other countries.
Discussion: Gizmodo and Just Security
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll - June 2017: ACA, Replacement Plan, and Medicaid  —  Ashley Kirzinger, Bianca DiJulio, Liz Hamel, Bryan Wu, and Mollyann Brodie  —  KEY FINDINGS:  — As the Senate prepares to hold a vote on a plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) …
John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump's core voters could suffer most under GOP health bill, but they may not punish him for it  — A study says that Trump's victory was propelled more by racial solidarity than his views on trade or entitlements.  — Trump's core voters are more likely to rely on Medicaid …
Discussion: NBC News
Philly.com:
Cosby juror says he didn't believe ‘well-coached’ Constand  —  PITTSBURGH — A juror in Bill Cosby's sex assault trial said Thursday that he did not believe the testimony of accuser Andrea Constand because she willingly went alone to the entertainer's home and brought him gifts on more than one occasion.
Discussion: East Bay Times and AOL
Mary Katharine Ham / The Federalist:
Aftermath Of Alexandria Shooting Showed The Left's Cultural Bullying At Its Worst  —  The behavior of many on the Left this week sent a message that not only do they not ‘get’ the other half of the country, they don't want to.  That's a recipe for losing elections.
Discussion: Daily Wire, alicublog and RedState
 
 
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Timothy Egan / New York Times:
Our Fake Democracy  —  We tell ourselves stories in order to live, as Joan Didion said.
Discussion: The Mahablog
Elias Groll / Foreign Policy:
House Speaker Ryan Punts on Tough Senate Sanctions Bill
MILO NEWS:
New York City's Jue Lan Club Restaurant Cancels MILO Event
Discussion: Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
White House names Trump hotel employee to be chief usher
Discussion: SARAH PALIN
Paul Rodzinka / WDTN-TV:
Thunderbirds will not fly Saturday, will evaluate Sunday
Nada Bakos / Washington Post:
President Trump's Twitter feed is a gold mine for foreign spies
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Jury deadlocks in second trial of former University of Cincinnati officer who fatally shot Samuel DuBose
Discussion: Fusion, Mother Jones and IJR
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New York Daily News:
Brooklyn baby allegedly beaten into coma by dad on Father's Day dies
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Clare Foran / The Atlantic:
Why Do Democrats Keep Losing in 2017?
Discussion: Breitbart, The Moderate Voice and IJR
Alan M. Dershowitz / The Hill:
OPINION: Trump's bluff: Perfectly legal
BuzzFeed:
Memo Shows Preet Bharara Was Concerned After Phone Call From White House
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