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5:30 PM 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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Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
What Really Happened Between Donald Trump, the Hosts of Morning Joe, and the National Enquirer  —  As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump used his close alliance with the National Enquirer to attack his enemies.  Now that he's President, he's continuing to benefit from the tabloid's support.
The Daily Beast:
Jared Kushner Told Joe Scarborough: Talk to President Trump About ‘Enquirer’ Dirt … On Friday, MSNBC hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough made the explosive claim that three of President Donald Trump's most senior White House aides “warned” the couple that the tabloid The National Enquirer …
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Mika Speaks!  A Day After Trump's Horrific Tweet, Brzezinski Reveals How It All Went Down  —  And how they said Trump begged her for the name of the doctor who performed her procedure.  —  At 6:56 A.M. on Friday morning, Mika Brzezinski was hustling down a fluorescent-lit hallway at 30 Rock …
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Scarborough, Brzezinski say White House used National Enquirer as threat  —  Trump tweets insults at MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski  —  MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski claim President Trump and his White House used the possibility of a hit piece in the National Enquirer to threaten them.
Fox News:
Trump, Kushner never blackmailed Scarborough, source says  —  A top White House aide never suggested a quid pro quo during a call with Joe Scarborough regarding an upcoming National Enquirer Story, a source told Fox News - despite Scarborough's claim Friday morning that a Trump adviser recently tried …
Jay Caruso / RedState:
Joe Scarborough: I Updated NBC Executives in Real Time About National Enquirer Threat
Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Kellyanne Conway Blasts CNN's Anti-Trump Culture
Discussion: IJR and Raw Story
John Bowden / The Hill:
Kushner told ‘Morning Joe’ hosts to apologize to Trump or tabloid story would run: report
Seth Fiegerman / CNNMoney:
Why Trump's offensive tweets don't get him kicked off Twitter
Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
Trump's Voter Fraud Endgame  —  His “election integrity” investigation is a pretext to repeal the National Voter Registration Act.  It won't work.  —  Donald Trump's attempt at voter suppression through his “election integrity” commission is a voting rights nightmare that is being enacted so clumsily it just might backfire.
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Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Kobach: Kansas won't give Social Security info to Kobach-led voter commission at this time  —  Multiple states plan to buck Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's request for personal information on voters on behalf of a presidential commission.  —  Kobach said Friday that Kansas …
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Ari Berman / The Nation:
The Trump Administration Is Planning an Unprecedented Attack on Voting Rights  —  We are witnessing the beginning of a nationwide voter-suppression campaign, led by the White House and enabled by Congress and the Department of Justice.  —  Four things happened yesterday that pose a grave danger to voting rights.
Adam Ganucheau / Mississippi Today:   Hosemann on Trump voter ID request: ‘Go jump in the Gulf’
Deborah Barfield Berry / USA Today:   State election officials push back on data request from Trump voter fraud panel
Bryan Lowry / Kansas City Star:
Kris Kobach wants every U.S. voter's personal information for Trump's commission
John Harwood / CNBC:
Killing Obamacare without a replacement doesn't appeal to McConnell  — Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is unlikely to allow debate to extend past July 21, according to a GOP strategist.  —  Senate Republican leaders know that chances of passing their health bill are slim …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Trump repeal idea would lead to 26 million uninsured
Discussion: ABC News, Omaha World-Herald and Axios
Senator Ben Sasse:
Sasse Sends Plan B to Trump: If No Agreement Next Week, Repeal First and Spend August on Replace
Discussion: New York Times and National Review
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
After the president's tweet, I must withdraw my support for everything but his agenda  —  I stand with my colleagues in Congress to say: The president's tweet is beneath the dignity of the office.  —  This is not making America great.  —  The president has at last done the unthinkable …
Discussion: CNN, Lawyers, Guns & Money and AOL
David Dayen / The Intercept:
California Single-Payer Organizers Are Deceiving Their Supporters.  It's Time To Stop.  —  In the days since California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon shelved for the year SB562, which intends to establish a state single payer health care system, he's been subject to mass protests and even death threats.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Clio Chang / New Republic:   What Killed Single-Payer In California?
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.
Mike Allen / Axios:
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.
Aida Chavez / The Hill:
Trump scolds reporters for nearly knocking over Oval Office table … President Trump on Friday scolded reporters for nearly knocking over an Oval Office table as they jostled for room during his meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in.  —  “Fellas, easy.
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Alex Pappas / Washington Examiner:
Trump to aggressive reporters in Oval Office: ‘You guys are getting worse’
Discussion: Washington Times
New York Times:
Trump Backers ‘Furious’ That Senator Stood Against Health Care Bill  —  WASHINGTON — Senator Dean Heller's biting denunciation of the Republican health care bill last week infuriated the White House and helped unravel his party's attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act days before a vote was expected in the Senate.
Emily Holden / E&E News:
Pruitt will launch program to ‘critique’ climate science  —  U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is leading a formal initiative to challenge mainstream climate science using a “back-and-forth critique” by government-recruited experts, according to a senior administration official.
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
A Handmaid's Tale of Protest  —  In state capitals and street protests, women's rights activists have been wearing red robes and white bonnets based on “The Handmaid's Tale,” the 1985 novel that is now a series on Hulu.  —  Silent, heads bowed, the activists in crimson robes and white bonnets …
CNN:
First on CNN: House panel to interview former Trump adviser in Russia probe  —  House panel probes Trump campaign adviser  —  (CNN)The House intelligence committee, moving rapidly to interview a series of major witnesses in July, plans to bring forward another former Trump adviser to question …
 
 
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Sam Thielman / Talking Points Memo:
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Discussion: Axios
Hilary Brueck / Forbes:
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Discussion: The Verge, Engadget and Raw Story
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
GOP Congesswoman compares transgender soldiers to North Korea, Putin, and ISIS
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
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Nets Dedicate 28X More Coverage to Trump Tweet than Kate's Law Passing House
Discussion: The Daily Caller
J. Lester Feder / BuzzFeed:
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