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11:10 AM ET, July 13, 2017

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Reuters:
Highlights of Reuters interview with Trump  —  7 MIN READ  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Here are highlights of the Reuters Oval Office interview with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday.  —  ON WHETHER HE WAS AWARE HIS SON DONALD TRUMP JR. WAS MEETING WITH A RUSSIAN LAWYER  —  “No. That I didn't know.
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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 …
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 …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Conspiracy or Coincidence?  A Timeline Open to Interpretation  —  WASHINGTON — At 6:14 p.m. on June 7, 2016, Donald Trump Jr. clicked the send button on an email to confirm a meeting with a woman described as a “Russian government attorney” who would give him “information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia.”
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump's lawyers try to control unruly White House
Discussion: Raw Story
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Republican Senators Left Exposed in Health Care Ad Wars  —  By now, we know that Republicans in the Senate are having a tough time coming to agreement on a health care bill.  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took the drastic step this week of cancelling at least the first two weeks …
Discussion: Reuters and New York Times
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Dana Bash / CNN:
First on CNN: Graham, Cassidy unveil details of alternative health care plan  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)With the prospects for passing the current Senate Republican health care bill still in jeopardy, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana …
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
The Health 202: Doctors make last-ditch effort to sink GOP health-care bill  —  THE PROGNOSIS  —  Senate Majority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) attends a new conference following party policy lunch meeting.  (REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX)  —  It's looking increasingly …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Draft GOP health bill will include Cruz provision
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Sarah Karlin-Smith / Politico:
Senate GOP's new health care bill expected to include controversial Cruz amendment
Discussion: Business Insider
Sam Baker / Axios:   Here comes the brand new Senate health bill
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump: ‘I will be very angry’ if GOP senators don't pass a health-care bill
Discussion: New York Magazine
Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
Changes in Senate Health Care Bill Coming But Medicaid Cuts Remain
Discussion: Daily Kos
James Doubek / NPR:
Justice Department Defies Court Deadline To Release Sessions' Contacts With Russians  —  In defiance of a court order, the Justice Department is refusing to release part of a security form dealing with Attorney General Jeff Sessions' contacts with the Russian government.
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The Hill:
Exclusive: DOJ let Russian lawyer into US before she met with Trump team  —  The Russian lawyer who penetrated Donald Trump  —  's inner circle was initially cleared into the United States by the Justice Department under “extraordinary circumstances” before she embarked on a lobbying campaign …
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Sheldon Silver's Conviction Is Overturned  —  A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, the once-powerful New York State Assembly speaker who obtained nearly $4 million in illicit payments in return for taking official actions that benefited others …
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Lia Eustachewich / New York Post:   Sheldon Silver's corruption conviction is overturned
Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times:
‘He is a monkey’: Federal appeals court appears doubtful that a monkey who took a selfie can sue  —  An Indonesian macaque named Naruto allegedly grabbed a photographer's camera and snapped a self-portrait in 2011.  (Wikimedia)  —  A federal appeals court appeared highly skeptical Wednesday …
Discussion: Above the Law
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Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:
Monkey selfie photographer says he's broke: 'I'm thinking of dog walking'
Discussion: Althouse
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
America needs to hear from Jared Kushner  —  He's the man at the center of the swirling Trump-Russia scandal.  —  Jared Kushner, more than anyone else, is the man at the intersection of the various threads of the Trump/Russia scandal.  —  He attended the Trump Tower meeting …
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Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Senator: Kushner's Meeting With Russian Lawyer Was ‘Known’ In April
Discussion: Politico
Craig Unger / New Republic:
Trump's Russian Laundromat  —  How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House.  —  In 1984, a Russian émigré named David Bogatin went shopping for apartments in New York City.
Discussion: Scripting News
Shane Savitsky / Axios:
Chuck Todd: “every man and woman for themselves” in Trumpland  —  NBC News' Chuck Todd sat down with Axios' Jim VandeHei at the end of Axios and NBC News' roundtable discussion on the economy to talk about how President Trump's agenda is faring as the Russia scandal threatens to suck all of the air out of Washington.
Discussion: Political Wire
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump crafting plan to slash legal immigration  —  Donald Trump and his aides are quietly working with two conservative senators to dramatically scale back legal immigration — a move that would mark a fulfillment of one of the president's biggest campaign promises.
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.
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Valeriya Safronova / New York Times:
Rob Goldstone, Trump Intermediary, Likes Silly Hats and Facebook
 
 
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
In France, Trump and Macron Strive to Put Awkward Start Behind Them
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Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
House panel advances amendment blocking Pentagon funding for gender transition
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