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8:40 AM ET, June 30, 2017

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Washington Post:
Donald Trump is not well  —  President Trump launched personal attacks against us Thursday, but our concerns about his unmoored behavior go far beyond the personal.  America's leaders and allies are asking themselves yet again whether this man is fit to be president.
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Emily Smith / New York Post:
Trump calls out Mika's ‘bleeding facelift’ in low-blow tweetstorm  —  The hosts of MSNBC's “Morning Joe” delayed their vacation plans so they can return to the air Friday morning and fire back at President Trump's Twitter attack.  —  “Joe and Mika were supposed to start their July 4th weekend early …
Editorials / New York Daily News:
The ugly American President: Donald Trump's tweet-rant against Mika and Joe reaches new low  —  Morning breaks over Washington.  The President of the United States, possessed of awesome power and awesome responsibility, readies to grapple with the most urgent business of nation and world.
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Delegitimizing his presidency, one tweet at a time  —  Washington (CNN)It marked a rare presidential moment on a most un-presidential day — Donald Trump stood at a podium flanked by flags as “Stars and Stripes Forever” rang out, after delivering a speech on energy.
Michelle Goldberg / Slate:
Trump No Longer Seems Able to Hide His Raw Misogyny. Good.
Seth Fiegerman / CNNMoney:
Why Trump's offensive tweets don't get him kicked off Twitter
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump's bullying of Mika Brzezinski crosses a big line
The Hill:
White House offers unapologetic defense of Trump tweets
Discussion: Axios, RedState and ABC News
Daniella Diaz / CNN:
GOP lawmakers blast Trump's ‘Morning Joe’ tweets
Shane Harris / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Operative Sought Clinton Emails From Hackers, Implied a Connection to Flynn  —  Peter W. Smith portrayed the former general as having been an ally in an effort, independent of the Trump campaign, to find personal emails deleted by Hillary Clinton.
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Charlie Spiering / Breitbart:
John Podesta Loses It During Russia Debate with Maria Bartiromo  —  Former Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta grew angry when Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo highlighted his own ties with companies connected to Russia.  —  Bartiromo asked why Americans weren't paying more attention to Democrat ties to the Russians.
Ben Collins / The Daily Beast:
NASA Denies That It's Running a Child Slave Colony on Mars … A report on Alex Jones' InfoWars claiming child sex slaves have been kidnapped and shipped to Mars is untrue, NASA told The Daily Beast on Thursday.  —  “There are no humans on Mars.  There are active rovers on Mars.
Discussion: RedState and Balloon Juice
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump calls for “immediately” repealing ACA if Senate deal fails  —  Early Friday morning President Trump tweeted: “If Republican Senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately REPEAL, and then REPLACE at a later date!”  —  Why this tweet is extraordinary …
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Senate health bill: Mission accomplished?  —  Senate Republicans didn't get a health care deal nailed down before leaving town — but they don't want to lose momentum, so they're going to send the Congressional Budget Office some broad outlines of a new bill to look at over the recess.
Ezra Klein / Vox:
It turns out the liberal caricature of conservatism is correct
Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump overrules cabinet, plots global trade war  —  With the political world distracted by President Trump's media wars, one of the most consequential and contentious internal debates of his presidency unfolded during a tense meeting Monday in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, administration sources tell Axios.
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Breaking: MSNBC and Greta Van Susteren Agree to Part Ways  —  In an era where liberal anger is driving ratings, the former Fox anchor's show never caught fire.  —  “Remember me?”  Greta Van Susteren crooned to the camera as she raised the curtain on her new MSNBC show on January 9.  “I'm baaack.”
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Media Matters for America:
Bret Stephens and MSNBC's hiring spree: The network keeps moving right
Discussion: Mediaite
The Intercept:
Here's The Audio Of Donald Trump's Private RNC Fundraiser At His Own Hotel  —  President Donald Trump kicked off his re-election campaign's financing efforts with a major fundraiser at his own Washington hotel Wednesday night, excluding media but charging attendees $35,000 each.
Discussion: The Week
Fox News:
House passes Kate's Law, as part of illegal immigrant crackdown  —  House Republicans took action Thursday to crack down on illegal immigrants and the cities that shelter them.  —  One bill passed by the House would deny federal grants to sanctuary cities and another, Kate's Law …
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Eitan D. Hersh / New York Times:
The Problem With Participatory Democracy Is the Participants  —  At backyard barbecues this holiday weekend, liberals will gab with one another about how much time they're spending on politics.  More than ever, they are watching cable news, and refreshing Twitter and Facebook feeds.
CBO's Publications:
Longer-Term Effects of the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 on Medicaid Spending  —  Medicaid spending under the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 would be about 35 percent lower in 2036 compared with CBO's extended baseline.  Such spending under the bill would increase each year throughout the next two decades.
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Doyle Rice / USA Today:
It was 129 degrees in Iran Thursday, which is one of the Earth's hottest temperatures ever recorded  —  The southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz soared to a brutal 129 degrees Thursday, which is Iran's highest temperature ever recorded.  —  It's also one of the world's hottest reliably measured temperatures …
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Trump's voter-fraud commission wants to know voting history, party ID and address of every voter in the U.S.  —  The chair of President Trump's Election Integrity Commission has penned a letter to all 50 states requesting their full voter-roll data, including the name, address, date of birth …
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump names former FEC member to voter fraud probe
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Progressive Journalists Are Outraged At The NRA For Pointing Out Leftist Violence  —  Barely two weeks after a progressive Democrat activist attempted a mass assassination of Republican officials, progressives are outraged at the NRA for noting that the Second Amendment gives people the right …
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Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
A chilling National Rifle Association ad gaining traction online appears to be ‘an open call to violence’
Rhiannon Poolaw / KSWO-TV:
Family's amateur sting operation takes down man targeting young girl  —  DEL CITY, OK (KSWO)- A man accused of targeting a young girl for sex was taken down by an amateur sting operation put together by a Del City family.  —  The father of a 15-year-old girl found out about the relationship …
Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story and WQAD-TV
Raheem Kassam / Breitbart:
HOW SHE LOST: Study Reveals Near Half of Clinton's ‘Deplorables’ Once Supported Her  —  It wasn't Russia.  It wasn't even meme magic.  It was in fact the “deplorables” who once supported Hillary Clinton that propelled President Trump into the White House.  —  This is one of the major takeaways …
 
 
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Reuters:
Britain says Fox bid for Sky risks giving Murdoch too much power
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
Sarah Jones / New Republic:
How the Democrats' online outreach strategy went haywire.
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP senators call for McConnell to shorten August recess
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Understanding Republican Cruelty
Discussion: New York Daily News
Kate Mather / Los Angeles Times:
Homicide suspect filmed himself during running gun battle that wounded LAPD officer
Discussion: LAist and KTLA
Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks / Sacramento Bee:
Federal judge blocks California ban on high-capacity magazines
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Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml/James:
The Main Reason Congress Is Getting So Little Done Is... They Will Have 218 Days Off In 2017
Discussion: SARAH PALIN
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Republicans Left Ron Johnson for Dead Last Year, Now He Could Kill Their Health Care Bill
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Althouse
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
A Right-Leaning Foreign-Policy Think Tank Shuts Down
Timothy Bella / Esquire:
'It's Amazing I Haven't Ruined Myself'
Discussion: The Week
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount is planning for what happens if no big deal happens, mulling cutting $2B in costs, selling BET and TV stations, starting a streaming JV, more

Elise Morton / Associated Press:
Russia arrests two journalists, Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin, on “extremism” charges for allegedly working for a group founded by the late Alexei Navalny

 
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