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11:20 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 …
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 …
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.”
Rusty Surette / KBTX-TV:
Rep. Flores says President Trump's children should be removed from White House  —  A Republican U.S. Representative from the Brazos Valley believes the President's children should be removed from the White House.  —  Rep. Bill Flores, District 17, made the remarks on Wednesday …
Discussion: Vox
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump's lawyers try to control unruly White House
Discussion: Raw Story
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Senator: Kushner's Meeting With Russian Lawyer Was ‘Known’ In April
Discussion: Politico
Billy House / Bloomberg:
Democrats Ask DOJ About Settlement Involving Trump-Linked Lawyer
Discussion: Political Wire
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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Sarah Karlin-Smith / Politico:
Senate GOP's new health care bill expected to include controversial Cruz amendment  —  The Senate Republicans' draft Obamacare repeal bill due to be released on Thursday will tentatively include a controversial amendment from Ted Cruz, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Discussion: IJR and Business Insider
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
Discussion: Mother Jones
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Draft GOP health bill will include Cruz provision
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Sam Baker / Axios:   Here comes the brand new Senate health bill
Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
Changes in Senate Health Care Bill Coming But Medicaid Cuts Remain
Discussion: Daily Kos
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump: ‘I will be very angry’ if GOP senators don't pass a health-care bill
Discussion: New York Magazine
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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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
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
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
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.
 
 
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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
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:
The Trump Vision for America Abroad
Mick Mulvaney / Wall Street Journal:
Introducing MAGAnomics  —  The Trump agenda for achieving 3% economic growth.
Discussion: Business Insider
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Discussion: Business Insider and Daily Mail