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9:10 AM ET, June 28, 2017

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New York Times:
On Senate Health Bill, Trump Falters in the Closer's Role  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump began his all-hands meeting with Republican senators at the White House on Tuesday by saying they were “very close” to passing a health care bill, just as efforts to fast-track a vote this week collapsed.
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Inside the GOP's surprise health care flop  —  Senate Republicans had no inkling of what they were walking into on Tuesday afternoon as they filed into the Mike Mansfield room on the Capitol's second floor.  —  Mitch McConnell's 51 colleagues, from his most junior members to his closest lieutenants …
Discussion: Raw Story, Axios, ABC News, ThinkProgress and Vox
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Senate GOP seethes at Trump impulsiveness  —  Top GOP officials and senators say White House chaos and impulsiveness are crippling efforts to expand the Republican Senate majority in 2018, unraveling long-laid plans and needlessly jeopardizing incumbents.  —  There's a widespread sense …
Discussion: Political Wire
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Just 17 Percent Of Americans Approve Of Republican Senate Health Care Bill  —  Americans broadly disapprove of the Senate GOP's health care bill, and they're unhappy with how Republicans are handling the efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, according to a new NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll.
Discussion: The Week and VTDigger
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Don't be fooled: the Senate's Obamacare repeal effort remains very alive  —  The Senate health care bill, in its current form, is dead.  —  The Senate health care debate is not over.  —  Sound familiar?  —  Sign up for VoxCare  —  Vox's daily email explaining the biggest news in health care, edited by Sarah Kliff
Discussion: Politico, The Week and ABC News
Frank Bruni / New York Times:   The Misery of Mitch McConnell
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:   The Note: Health care not dead yet
Alexander Burns / New York Times:   How Governors From Both Parties Plotted to Derail the Senate Health Bill
Jessica Taylor / NPR:   Trump Fails To Reach Beyond Base, As Independents' Disapproval Grows
Sam Baker / Axios:
Where the Senate's health care bill goes from here
Discussion: Political Wire
Washington Post:
Who's afraid of Trump? Not enough Republicans — at least for now.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Caitlin Owens / Axios:   The new health care deadline: Get a deal by Friday
Jim Newell / Slate:
The Bill Lives  —  GOP senators delay the health care vote …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump: Senate GOP ‘very close’ to agreement on health bill
Discussion: RedState and Political Wire
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sarah Palin Sues New York Times, Claiming Editorial Defamed Her  —  Sarah Palin, former vice-presidential candidate, filed a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times Company on Tuesday, saying the newspaper had published a statement about her in a recent editorial that it “knew to be false.”
Discussion: Washington Post, NPR and Above the Law
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
A Time Magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs.  It's fake.  —  The framed copy of Time Magazine was hung up in at least four of President Trump's golf clubs, from South Florida to Scotland.  Filling the entire cover was a photo of Donald Trump.
New York Times:
Trump Campaign Chief's Firm Got $17 Million From Pro-Russia Party  —  Paul Manafort, who was forced out as President Trump's campaign chairman last summer after five months of infighting and criticism about his business dealings with pro-Russian interests, disclosed on Tuesday that his consulting firm …
Discussion: Mediaite and Political Wire
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Washington Post:
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort files as foreign agent for Ukraine work
Sarah D / Los Angeles Times:
L.A.'s newest congressman still hasn't taken his oath.  Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy wants to know why  —  House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Bakersfield) wants to know why Rep.-elect Jimmy Gomez hasn't been sworn in, saying the seat's “elongated vacancy” is “an abdication” of his responsibilities.
Circa:
WATCH |  Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe is being investigated by the Office of U.S. Special Counsel for violating The Hatch Act that prohibits FBI agents from campaigning in partisan races.  —  The Office of U.S. Special Counsel, the government's main whistleblower agency …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Brooks's prior attacks on Trump could hurt in Alabama Senate race  —  (R-Ala.) is locked in the race toward a contentious August primary to fill the Senate seat once held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions  —  . But Brooks's previous attacks on President Trump could pose a problem …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jake Sherman / Politico:
TICK-TOCK on the GOP's health-care ‘flop’ — HOW TRUMP can turn it around — PRO-TRUMP group pulls ads — FAHRENTHOLD strikes again — SPOTTED last night in ASPEN — B'DAY: Ashley Hickey Marquis  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  BULLETIN — WJLA: “Officials: Amtrak train hits, kills 2 CSX employees on tracks in D.C. …
Discussion: Morning Consult
Emily Smith / New York Post:
CNN faced $100M lawsuit over botched Russia story  —  The specter of a $100 million libel suit scared CNN into retracting a poorly reported story that slimed an ally of President Trump's — and forcing out the staffers responsible for it, The Post has learned.  —  SEE ALSO
Mike Wilson / Dallas Morning News:
How news organizations, including this one, unintentionally misinformed the public on guns  —  Steve Doud, a subscriber from Plano, emailed me to say he'd read something in the June 21 Dallas Morning News that couldn't possibly be true.  —  An eight-paragraph Washington Post article …
Reuters:
Helicopter attacks Venezuela court, Maduro denounces coup bid  —  A Venezuelan police helicopter strafed the Supreme Court and a government ministry on Tuesday, escalating the OPEC nation's political crisis in what President Nicolas Maduro called an attack by “terrorists” seeking a coup.
Discussion: RT, CNN, The Guardian, The Week and Fusion
Janosch Delcker / Politico:
Merkel to Trump: We provide you jobs  —  There is 10 times more German direct investment in the US than the other way around, German chancellor said.  —  BERLIN — Germany creates American jobs, Angela Merkel said Tuesday, in response to criticism from the White House over Germany exporting significantly more than it imports.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Trump praises female reporter's ‘nice smile’ on call to Irish PM … President Trump singled out a female journalist during a phone call with the new Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, on Tuesday, telling Varadkar, “She has a nice smile on her face.  So I bet she treats you well.”
Discussion: Shareblue, The Week, AOL, Mediaite and Raw Story
Christopher Wallace / Fox News:
Obamas under fire from the left for never ending, sizzling ultra-luxury vacations  —  The Democratic base is growing increasingly frustrated with former President Barack Obama's actions after leaving office, including a seemingly endless tour of millionaire and billionaire luxury retreats …
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Intraparty Disputes Stall Republicans' Legislative Agenda
Peter Burfeind / The Federalist:
Why You Can Expect Increased Violence When The Left Is Out Of Power
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Pam Fessler / NPR:
Making U.S. Elections More Secure Wouldn't Cost Much But No One Wants To Pay
Axios:
Full-court diplomacy (even secret talks with North Korea)
Discussion: Politico
Associated Press:
Supreme Court term ended much different than it began
Discussion: Politico
Natalie Neysa Alund / Tennessean.com:
Vanderbilt football player's stolen cell phone led to shooting outside Nashville Target, police say
Discussion: The Big Lead and The Daily Caller
Leah McElrath / Shareblue:
My father is one of the vulnerable seniors most at risk from GOP's cruel Medicaid cuts
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Aaron C. Davis / Washington Post:
Trump attorney Jay Sekulow's family has been paid millions from charities they control
Angela Hart / Sacramento Bee:
How Donald Trump is killing romance
Discussion: Raw Story and RedState
John F. Harris / Politico:
'It's the End of Small Talk in Washington'
Mike Levine / ABC News:
At least 1 US nuclear plant's computer system was hacked
Discussion: IJR
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
How the Logic of Tribalism Is Driving the Health-Care Debate
 

 
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