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9:50 AM ET, July 10, 2017

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New York Times:
Trump's Son Met With Russian Lawyer After Being Promised Damaging Information on Clinton  —  President Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign …
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Comey's private memos on Trump conversations contained classified material  —  More than half of the memos former FBI chief James Comey wrote as personal recollections of his conversations with President Trump about the Russia investigation have been determined to contain classified information …
Joshua Green / New York Magazine:
Steve Bannon Is Out of Trump's Doghouse and Leading the Charge Against Mueller  —  Why does Trump double-down every time it seems like he should retreat?  Because Steve Bannon is back in his boss's good graces.  —  On May 22, just as a strange photo of President Trump, Saudi king Salman …
David Remnick / New Yorker:
The Truth Behind Donald Trump, Jr.,'s Meeting with a Russian Lawyer  —  Don't get ahead of the reporting.  That's one of the first lessons you're supposed to learn as a novitiate in the church of journalism.  Don't assert what is not yet established by the facts.  The consequences can be dire.
Michael Walsh / New York Post:
The Times ‘exposé’ on Donald Trump Jr. is a big yawn  —  The news was delivered by the New York Times in the breathless tones that might announce a cure for cancer or the discovery of life on Mars:  —  “President Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information …
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Fire peers out from Trump-Russia smoke  —  WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY  — A drip-drip that triggers a siren: Donald Trump Jr. admits meeting with a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin who promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Discussion: RedState and The Week
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Putin Meets His Progeny  —  Team Trump wants us all to get over this annoying Russia thing and just move on.  Sorry sir, not going to happen.  —  At the G-20 meeting in Hamburg, Germany, Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the man whose thumb was all over the scale that delivered Trump's victory.
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Donald Trump Jr.'s Two Different Explanations for Russian Meeting
Discussion: CBS Miami and Political Wire
Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr.'s stunning admission to the New York Times
Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Ex-Bush ethics lawyer on Trump Jr: ‘This borders on treason’
Discussion: Political Wire
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Donald Trump Jr. met with Russian lawyer during presidential campaign after being promised …
David Frum / The Atlantic:   Will Congress Hold Russia Accountable for the Behavior Trump Excuses?
David Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
When Will the Planet Be Too Hot For Humans?  Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine.  —  Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. … It is, I promise, worse than you think.  If your anxiety about global warming is dominated …
Andy Slavitt / USA Today:
Republicans' best play amid health bill chaos is failure  —  This is a mess of the party's own making and a Congress far more in touch with 2016 politics than 2017 governing.  —  The Republican plan to undo the Affordable Care Act has spun out of control.  GOP senators are frustrated …
Discussion: BostonGlobe.com, Salon and Reuters
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate GOP returns from break no closer to Obamacare deal
Discussion: Raw Story
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
President Trump's enemies list  —  Donald Trump is less than six months into his presidency, yet one of the organizing principles of his political operation is already becoming clear: Payback.  —  In private, Trump has spoken of spending $10 million out of his own pocket to defeat …
Discussion: The Hill
Karol Markowicz / Reuters:
Why Democrats are still losing the war of ideas  —  MORE FROM: … Last week, a Politico/Morning Consult poll on President Trump's proposed travel ban on visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries revealed a somewhat surprising discovery: 60 percent of voters agreed with Trump's proposed ban.
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Obama returns to political fray for a Democratic Party cause  —  Former president Barack Obama will formally reenter the political fray this week less than six months after leaving office, headlining a fundraiser for a group that could prove critical to the Democratic Party's rebuilding efforts.
Discussion: Political Wire and Politico
Lawrence Summers / Financial Times:
Donald Trump's alarming G20 performance  —  A company would have replaced a CEO with behaviour as erratic as that of the president  —  Read next  —  Confusing civility with comity is a grave mistake in human or international relations.  Yes, the G20 summit did agree on a common communiqué after the leaders' meeting.
Maya Salam / New York Times:
Australian Journalist's Trump Teardown Goes Viral Amid Interest in G-20  —  In an Australian news broadcast that seems to have resonated with Americans, a political journalist delivered a scathing evaluation of President Trump's performance last week at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany.
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Rodney Tiffen / Inside Story:
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