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9:10 PM ET, July 12, 2017

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CBN.com:
President Trump to CBN's Pat Robertson: Putin Would Have Been Happier With Clinton  —  President Donald Trump sat down with CBN Founder Pat Robertson for an exclusive “700 Club” interview at the White House this morning.  —  It comes as the media firestorm over Russia and the election continues to dominate headlines.
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Steve Holland / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump says he was unaware of son's meeting with Russian lawyer  —  2 MIN READ  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was unaware of his son Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting last year with a Russian lawyer at the heart of a White House controversy …
Adam Pribila / IJR:
Roger Stone Alleges That He Knows Who Is Behind the White House Leaks  —  Much speculation has been made regarding the role former Trump presidential campaign advisor Roger Stone played in the various hacking and leaking scandals that plagued the 2016 election.
Discussion: RedState
Ali Rogin / ABC News:
Senate Intelligence Committee list of interviewees expands amid Trump Jr. email controversy
Discussion: Politico and Associated Press
Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
U.S. Democrats in new bid to push Russia and Iran sanctions bill
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Axios
Shane Harris / WSJ:
Russian Officials Overheard Discussing Trump Associates Before Campaign Began  —  U.S. intelligence starting in the spring of 2015 detected conversations in which Russian government officials discussed meetings with Trump associates  —  WASHINGTON—U.S. intelligence agencies starting …
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Kevin G. Hall / McClatchy Washington Bureau:   Lawyer that met Don Jr. had ties to Russian government, spy agency
Anousha Sakoui / Bloomberg:   Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Are Headed to Sun Valley, Source Says
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:   The blackmail factor: Trumpworld's Russia lies are a major risk to national security
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump lawyers want wall between Kushner, president  —  President Trump's outside legal team wants to wall off Jared Kushner from discussing the Russia investigation with his father-in-law, according to sources with direct knowledge of the discussions.
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
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 …
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Senator: Intel Committee Knew In April That Kushner Met Russian Lawyer  —  Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Wednesday said the panel knew about Jared Kushner's attendance of a June 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer as early as April.
Discussion: Politico
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The investigation goes digital: Did someone point Russia to specific online targets?
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:   Are Donald Trump, Jr.,'s E-mails About Meeting with a Russian Lawyer Evidence of a Crime?
Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
Senate moderates sidelined in new Obamacare repeal bill  —  In a closed-door meeting of Senate Republican chairmen Wednesday, Lisa Murkowski ripped GOP leaders' attempt to scale back Medicaid spending in their Obamacare repeal bill.  —  The two matters were unrelated, she argued …
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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!”
Matt Fuller / HuffPost:
McConnell Plans A Vote On A Health Care Bill Next Week, But Passage Prospects Are Murky
Discussion: New York Magazine and Politico
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.
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House Democrat files article of impeachment against Trump  —  Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) formally introduced an article of impeachment against President Trump on Wednesday that accuses the president of obstructing justice during the federal investigation of Russia's 2016 election interference.
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 …
Discussion: Mashable and Gizmodo
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Exclusive: Video shows Trump with associates tied to email controversy  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Video obtained exclusively by CNN offers a new look inside the web of relationships now at the center of allegations of collusion between Trump campaign associates and Russia.
New York Times:
Campus Rape Policies Get a New Look as the Accused Get DeVos's Ear  —  WASHINGTON — The letters have come in to her office by the hundreds, heartfelt missives from college students, mostly men, who had been accused of rape or sexual assault.  Some had lost scholarships.  Some had been expelled.
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
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.
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New York Times:
An Iceberg the Size of Delaware Just Broke Away From Antarctica
Max Ehrenfreund / Washington Post:
Trump's proposals could hike taxes for nearly a quarter of the middle class  —  When one of President Trump's senior economic advisers was asked what the White House's plans for tax reform would mean for a typical middle-class family, he answered with confidence.
Discussion: taxpolicycenter.org
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Trump's tax cuts would give the poor $40 each and the ultrarich $940,000
Discussion: New York Magazine
CNN:
Trump seen bowing in prayer during Oval Office session  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump, who has remained out of public view since returning from Europe late Saturday, welcomed evangelical leaders into the Oval Office on Monday for a prayer session.  —  Photos posted by some of the invitees show …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
The Big Trumpers Still Don't Get The Trouble They're In  —  One issue I've touched on here and there in my posts on the Russia probe is my abiding sense that especially the younger generation of Trumpers: Kushner, Don Jr., et al. just don't seem to grasp the magnitude of the trouble they're in …
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Trump intervenes to grant rejected Afghan girls entry to U.S. for robot contest  —  At the urging of President Donald Trump, U.S. officials have reversed course and decided to allow into the United States a group of Afghan girls hoping to participate in an international robotics competition next week …
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Wire
Pete Madden / ABC News:
Jeff Sessions addresses ‘anti-LGBT hate group,’ but DOJ won't release his remarks  —  Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered a speech to an alleged hate group at an event closed to reporters on Tuesday night, but the Department of Justice is refusing to reveal what he said.
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.
Committee on the Judiciary:
JUDICIARY DEMS DEMAND ANSWERS ON DOJ SETTLEMENT OF FRAUD CASE HANDLED BY RUSSIAN LAWYER WHO MET WITH TRUMP JR.  —  DOJ Abruptly Settled Money Laundering Case that Involved Russia Sanctions, New York Real Estate Holdings, and Kremlin-Linked Lawyer Who Met with Donald Trump Jr.
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Gillespie's primary scare has White House, others urging ‘Trump world’ hires  —  RICHMOND — Alarmed that Ed Gillespie barely won the Virginia GOP primary for governor in June, top Republicans from the White House on down are pushing him to hire some of the president's strategists …
Discussion: Breaking News USA
 
 
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Associated Press:
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
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Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Signal
Harvard News:
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Democrats Sue Trump Campaign Over Leaked Emails Tied to Russia
Scott Thistlestaff / Press Herald:
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Discussion: IJR and Washington Free Beacon
 Earlier Items: 
Ashley May / USA Today:
Employee takes sick leave for mental health, CEO's response is refreshingly rare
Discussion: Mashable, WREG-TV, AOL and Refinery29
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Trump's election commission has been a disaster. It's going exactly as planned.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
Pence: Leaders should be humble, exercise self-control
Discussion: Newsweek, RedState and Axios
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Agonistes  —  Surprise, he didn't run his campaign any smarter than his government.