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12:15 AM ET, June 24, 2017

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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 …
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump is struggling to stay calm on Russia, one morning call at a time
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: ABC News, Politico, 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
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
California restricts state travel to Texas, other states over LGBT laws
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
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
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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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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.
Sally Q. Yates / Washington Post:
Making America scared again won't make us safer  —  Sally Q. Yates served in the Justice Department from 1989 to 2017 as an assistant U.S. attorney, U.S. attorney, deputy attorney general and, briefly this year, as acting attorney general.  —  In today's polarized world …
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
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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Christopher Burbach / Omaha World-Herald:
Nebraska Democratic Party chair removes official after offensive remarks about congressman's shooting
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
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
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
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 …
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Pence meets with Koch brother in Colorado  —  Vice President Pence held an unannounced meeting with conservative political activist Charles Koch on Friday, the day before the Koch brothers network kicks off a donor meeting in Colorado Springs.  —  Pence, in town to headline a banquet celebrating …
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
How Twitter Pornified Politics  —  This is the column in which I formally forswear Twitter for good.  I'll keep my Twitter handle, and hopefully my followers, but an editorial assistant will manage the account from now on.  I'll intercede only to say nice things about the writing I admire, the people I like and the music I love.
 
 
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Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues:
A legislative path to create new laws is better than arguing over old laws
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
Our Fake Democracy  —  We tell ourselves stories in order to live, as Joan Didion said.
Discussion: The Mahablog
John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump's core voters could suffer most under GOP health bill, but they may not punish him for it
Discussion: NBC News
Bloomberg:
Canada Ponders an Unusual Drug Problem: a Shortage of Marijuana
Victoria Friedman / Breitbart:
Sadiq Khan Slammed for Refusing to Support Hezbollah Ban
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
White House names Trump hotel employee to be chief usher
Discussion: SARAH PALIN
Nada Bakos / Washington Post:
President Trump's Twitter feed is a gold mine for foreign spies
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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
Hamilton Nolan / Fusion:
It Is Humanly Impossible to Be a Good Newspaper Columnist
Jiayang Fan / New Yorker:
China's Mistress-Dispellers
Discussion: Longreads
Mary Katharine Ham / The Federalist:
Aftermath Of Alexandria Shooting Showed The Left's Cultural Bullying At Its Worst
Discussion: alicublog, Daily Wire and RedState
Alan M. Dershowitz / The Hill:
OPINION: Trump's bluff: Perfectly legal
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
The banquet business was booming at Mar-a-Lago. Then Trump became president.
 

 
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