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10:00 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 …
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, Fusion, VTDigger and Shakesville
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
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 and The Week
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Trump Fails To Reach Beyond Base, As Independents' Disapproval Grows  —  President Trump's support has eroded with independent voters since he took office.  Though he still clings to a loyal base of supporters, his overall disapproval among Americans has reached record highs, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
How Governors From Both Parties Plotted to Derail the Senate Health Bill  —  WASHINGTON — A once-quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington on Tuesday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months …
Aida Chavez / The Hill:
Support for Senate healthcare bill at 17 percent in NPR poll  —  Support for the Senate GOP's healthcare legislation stands at just 17 percent in a new NPR poll.  —  Slightly more than half of all respondents, 55 percent, disapprove of the legislation to repeal and replace ObamaCare.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Politico and NPR
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:   The Note: Health care not dead yet
Frank Bruni / New York Times:   The Misery of Mitch McConnell
Washington Post:
Who's afraid of Trump? Not enough Republicans — at least for now.
Discussion: The Hill, Fusion and New York Magazine
Sam Baker / Axios:
Where the Senate's health care bill goes from here
Discussion: Political Wire
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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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Sarah Palin Suing New York Times For Defamation  —  Sarah Palin is suing The New York Times for defamation, according to documents filed on Tuesday obtained by The Daily Caller.  —  The lawsuit has to do with an editorial the NYT ran on June 14 that falsely smeared Palin as inciting …
Tony Lee / Breitbart:
Sarah Palin Sues New York Times for Defamation
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
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.
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.
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, The Guardian, The Week and Fusion
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CNN:
Helicopter attack targets Venezuela's Supreme Court
Discussion: The Guardian
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
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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: RedState and The Gateway Pundit
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 …
Art Swift / Gallup:
In US, Confidence in Newspapers Still Low but Rising  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite an ongoing controversy over “fake news,” more Americans this year (27%) say they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in newspapers than did so last year (20%).
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
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
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The media will do anything to bash Trump — and now they're hurting  —  MORE FROM: … It was many years ago, but the memory lingers of the first time I was embarrassed to be a journalist.  It was a steamy summer afternoon and reporters and photographers were shoehorned into a small Manhattan apartment …
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
 
 
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