memeorandum: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Are Headed to Sun Valley, Source Says (Anousha Sakoui/Bloomberg)

3:00 PM ET, July 12, 2017

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Trump-Russia investigators probe Jared Kushner-run digital operation — WASHINGTON — Investigators at the House and Senate Intelligence committees and the Justice Department are examining whether the Trump campaign's digital operation - overseen by Jared Kushner - helped guide Russia's …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Atlantic, Washington Monthly, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, AOL, Daily Kos, Political Wire and Mother Jones, more at Mediagazer »

New York Times:

Rancor at White House as Russia Story Refuses to Let the Page Turn — WASHINGTON — If President Trump emerged from his meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last week hoping he had begun to “move forward” from the controversy over the Kremlin's election meddling, as advisers put it …

Anousha Sakoui / Bloomberg:

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Are Headed to Sun Valley, Source Says — Tech, media billionaires to mingle with White House couple — Attendees praise less regulation, criticize visa policy — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are headed to the Sun Valley conference hosted by Allen & Co. …

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

‘Category 5 hurricane’: White House under siege by Trump Jr.'s Russia revelations — The White House has been thrust into chaos after days of ever-worsening revelations about a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a lawyer characterized as representing the Russian government …

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New York Times:

Natalia Veselnitskaya, Lawyer Who Met Trump Jr., Seen as Fearsome Moscow Insider — MOSCOW — When American prosecutors accused a senior Russian official's son of laundering $14 million by investing in Manhattan property and other assets, she was called to defend him.

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Pillar of Law, The Guardian, SHUGERBLOG, The Daily Caller, NBC News, Just Security, IJR, Patterico's Pontifications, Business Insider, Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon, Bloomberg, CNBC, Weekly Standard, Little Green Footballs and Raw Story

Kevin G. Hall / McClatchy Washington Bureau:

Lawyer that met Don Jr. had ties to Russian government, spy agency — WASHINGTON — The Russian lawyer at the center of Donald Trump Jr.'s scandal over possible collusion with Kremlin election meddlers has denied she has ties to the Russian government. — But she threatened action …

New York Post:

Donald Trump Jr. is an idiot — We see one truly solid takeaway from the story of the day: Donald Trump Jr. is an idiot. — SEE ALSO — In the heat of your father's presidential campaign, a bozo British publicist e-mails you to set up a sitdown with a “Russian government attorney” …

Discussion: Reuters, IJR, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite, Washington Post, Breitbart, Business Insider and Talking Points Memo

New York Times:

Did Donald Jr. Break the Law? — The revelation that Donald Trump Jr. enthusiastically accepted an offer to meet with an individual described as a “Russian government attorney” bringing “official documents and information” to help the Trump campaign and injure the Clinton campaign is a bombshell.

Discussion: Politicus USA

Bloomberg:
Russian Lawyer Who Met Trump Jr. Saw a Clinton Scandal in Tax Inquiry

Discussion: The Atlantic, Business Insider, The Daily Beast, Vanity Fair, Raw Story, NBC News, The Daily Caller, USA Today, The Gateway Pundit and Washington Post

Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
House Republican threatens new Clinton investigations unless Democrats stop talking about Russia

Discussion: Raw Story

Josh Dawsey / Politico:
White House aides feeling ‘helpless’ as Trump Jr. scandal explodes

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Matthew Yglesias / Vox: The blackmail factor: Trumpworld's Russia lies are a major risk to national security

Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:
President Trump personally signed off on false statement claiming Don Jr.'s meeting was about adoption: report

Discussion: New York Times, New York Magazine, IJR, The Guardian, Weekly Standard and Talking Points Memo

Wall Street Journal:
Keystone Kops Collusion

Discussion: New York Magazine

Jake Lahut / Politico:
Trump: ‘I have very little time for watching T.V.’

Discussion: Political Wire

Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly:
Who Dished the Dirt on Donald Trump Jr?

Discussion: Washington Post, Bloomberg and Mother Jones

Wall Street Journal:
Emails Pose Potential Problem for Trump Jr. After Meeting With Russian Lawyer

Discussion: Washington Post, Lawyers, Guns & Money, CNN, electionlawblog.org and Slate

National Review:
Don Jr.'s Disgraceful Meeting

Discussion: CNBC

Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:
On ‘Whataboutism’ And Its Moral Hazards

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Power Line, The Federalist, Washington Free Beacon and Politicus USA

Zachary Cohen / CNN:
Kushner under fire for role in meeting after Trump Jr. email release

Discussion: BuzzFeed, ThinkProgress, Weekly Standard, WREG-TV, Washington Post, BillMoyers.com, New York Times and News, Indy Week

Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Donald Trump Jr. tells Sean Hannity: ‘In retrospect I probably would have done things a little differently’

Discussion: Vox, Politico, IJR, Business Insider, Daily Wire, The Guardian, AOL, Raw Story, Forbes, CNBC and NPR

Diamond Naga Siu / Politico:
Obama and Bush ethics lawyers call Trump Jr.'s defense of Russia meeting ‘nonsense’

Discussion: RedState

Project MIDAS:

Larsen C calves trillion ton iceberg — A one trillion tonne iceberg - one of the biggest ever recorded - has calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The calving occurred sometime between Monday 10th July and Wednesday 12th July 2017, when a 5,800 square km section of Larsen C finally broke away.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Mashable, Washington Post, NBC News, The Verge, Gizmodo, Grist, AOL and New York Times

New York Times:
An Iceberg the Size of Delaware Just Broke Away From Antarctica

Discussion: CNN, Associated Press, The Guardian, IJR, Refinery29, New York Magazine and Shakesville

Eric Boehlert / Shareblue:

Trump goes AWOL, hasn't shown up to work all week — Donald Trump's public schedule has gone blank once again, as the amorphous Republican retreats behind the walls of the White House. — His strange disappearing act comes as Trump's family becomes deeply embroiled in the Russia collusion story …

Discussion: NPR, NBC News, Rewire and The Guardian

CNN:
Trump seen bowing in prayer during Oval Office session

Discussion: RedState, Townhall.com, Washington Post, Daily Mail, Right Wing Watch, The Last Refuge, IJR, Mediaite, AOL and Talking Points Memo

Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
Schiff: It's ‘Comical’ That Trump Says He Doesn't Watch TV

Discussion: Raw Story

Wall Street Journal:

Mark Zuckerberg Hits the Road to Meet Regular Folks—With a Few Conditions — As he tours America, Facebook CEO appears at homes and businesses with little notice, asks not to be quoted; not always recognized — Mark Zuckerberg is trying to understand America, so he's embarked on a journey …

Carl Hulse / New York Times:

Republicans Reluctantly Acknowledge a Failure of Governing — WASHINGTON — Republicans are failing at governance. And they know it. — Their senatorially painful decision announced on Tuesday to sacrifice some of lawmakers' usually sacrosanct August recess was a public confession …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, ABC News, Vox, Mediaite, Political Insider blog, Talking Points Memo and CNN

Bloomberg:
Senators Explore Bipartisan ‘Plan B’ to Troubled GOP Health Bill

Discussion: Daily Kos, Balloon Juice and CNN

Dylan Matthews / Vox:

Trump's tax cuts would give the poor $40 each and the ultrarich $940,000 — Researchers tried to run the numbers on Trump's ridiculously vague tax plan. They're not good. — A new analysis by the Tax Policy Center finds that the tax cuts included in the Trump administration's outline …

taxpolicycenter.org:
The Implications of What We Know and Don't Know about President Trump's Tax Plan

Discussion: Washington Post

Congressman Brad Sherman:

Congressman Sherman Introduces Article of Impeachment: Obstruction of Justice — Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), joined by Congressman Al Green (D-TX), introduced an Article of Impeachment (H. Res. 438) against President Donald J. Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story, Washington Free Beacon and The Gateway Pundit

Sen. Rand Paul / Breitbart:

Exclusive - Sen. Rand Paul: Senate GOP Decides to Keep Obamacare — I miss the old days, when Republicans stood for repealing Obamacare. Republicans across the country and every member of my caucus campaigned on repeal - often declaring they would tear out Obamacare “root and branch!”

Discussion: Vox and Business Insider

New York Post:

Teen blasted ‘F-k Tha Police’ during slain officer's funeral — A Bronx teen defiantly blasted the NWA song “F— Tha Police” out his third-floor apartment window Tuesday as thousands of cops were gathered below to mourn slain cop Miosotis Familia — prompting a house call from about 20 officers.

Discussion: Breitbart, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, AOL, Conservative News Today, Daily Wire, The Root and The Daily Caller

Amy Brittain / Washington Post:

State Department spent more than $15,000 for rooms at new Trump hotel in Vancouver — The State Department spent more than $15,000 to book 19 rooms at the new Trump hotel in Vancouver when members of President Trump's family headlined the grand opening of the tower in late February.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

HuffPost:

Hillary Clinton Campaign Aide To Press: We Told You Russia Was A BFD — A top aide details the many attempts to get the media to pay more attention to the election meddling. — The most ignored story of the 2016 presidential campaign is the press corps' unwillingness to focus …

Discussion: Raw Story, Politico, Shakesville, Political Wire and Axios