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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump blindsided by implosion of GOP health care bill  —  President Donald Trump convened a strategy session over steak and succotash at the White House with senators Monday night, trying to plot an uphill path to repealing Obamacare and replacing it with a GOP alternative.
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
GOP health care bill collapses  —  President Donald Trump's top legislative priority was dealt a potentially fatal blow Monday night as two more Republican senators announced their opposition to the party's health care overhaul.  —  Trump quickly called on Republicans to simply repeal Obamacare …
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Health Care Overhaul Collapses as Two Republican Senators Defect  —  WASHINGTON — Two more Republican senators declared on Monday night that they would oppose the Senate Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, killing, for now, a seven-year-old promise to overturn President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement.
United States Senator Mike Lee:
Sen. Mike Lee to Vote No on Senate Health Bill
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
After O'Care Plan Falters, McConnell Says He'll Push For Vote On Repeal Only
Sam Baker / Axios:
The fallout: Admit defeat, move on to bigger defeat?
Discussion: Politico, RedState and CNN
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The BCRA is dead, but Obamacare repeal is still alive
Discussion: The Texas Observer
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Old Truth Trips Up G.O.P. on Health Law: A Benefit Is Hard to Retract
Discussion: Shareblue and NBC News
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Two more GOP senators defect on healthcare bill
CNN:
Latest health care bill collapses following Moran, Lee defections
Wall Street Journal:
The Trumps and the Truth  —  The best defense against future revelations is radical transparency.  —  Even Donald Trump might agree that a major reason he won the 2016 election is because voters couldn't abide Hillary Clinton's legacy of scandal, deception and stonewalling.
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Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
The Master of ‘Kompromat’ Believed to Be Behind Trump Jr.'s Meeting  —  MOSCOW — The salacious video, of a naked man in bed with two women, was one of the most prominent examples of “kompromat,” the Russian art of spreading damaging information to discredit a rival or an enemy, in recent Russian history.
Pamela Brown / CNN:
First on CNN: Special Counsel investigators seeking info from ‘eighth man’ at Trump Tower meeting  —  Washington (CNN)Special counsel investigators are seeking information from the still-publicly unidentified eighth person who attended the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower …
Pamela Brown / CNN:
Trump Jr. attorney offers details about 8th person at meeting
Z. Byron Wolf / CNN:   Who was the 8th person in Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russians?
Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump the foul-mouthed germophobe fired Chris Christie because New Jersey governor arranged for Obama to call his phone NOT The Donald's on election night  — A new book reveals how Trump fell out with his then transition boss Chris Christie over whose cellphone to use on election night
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Marina Fang / HuffPost:
Steve Bannon Reportedly Attacked Paul Ryan As ‘A Limp-D**k Motherf**ker’  —  What?  —  Steve Bannon reportedly called House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) “a limp-dick motherf**ker who was born in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation,” referring to the think tank whose fiscal conservative policies the representative espouses.
Discussion: Political Wire
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Republicans Aren't Turning on Trump—They're Turning on Each Other
Discussion: Fox News and Raw Story
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Trump Just Came Very Close to Killing the Iran Deal  —  At the last minute, the president nearly told Tillerson not to certify Iranian compliance.  —  Under President Barack Obama this kind of thing was routine.  Since the Iran nuclear deal was reached in 2015, every few months …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Recertifies Iran Nuclear Deal, but Only Reluctantly  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump agreed on Monday to certify again that Iran is complying with an international nuclear agreement that he has strongly criticized, but only after hours of arguing with his top national security advisers …
John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Finally, a Poll Trump Will Like: Clinton Is Even More Unpopular  —  Views on Democratic nominee harden since exit from spotlight  —  Obama now as popular as he was in first year in White House  —  For a president with historically low poll numbers, Donald Trump can at least find solace in this: Hillary Clinton is doing worse.
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Campaign Conceded in a Memo That Comey Was Having Major Impact … Donald Trump's presidential campaign acknowledged in an internal memo that former FBI Director James Comey's 11th hour decision to reopen an inquiry into Hillary Clinton's use of private email helped shift the results.
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Dallas Morning News:
Let's outline Trump's achievements during his first six months in office
Discussion: Raw Story
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House GOP unveils budget plan that attaches major spending cuts to coming tax overhaul bill  —  House Republicans unveiled a 2018 budget plan Tuesday that would pave the way for ambitious tax reform legislation — but only alongside a package of politically sensitive spending cuts that threaten …
Discussion: Mother Jones, ABC News, Vox, CNBC, The Atlantic, CNN and 1A
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
As Party Drifts Left, Pragmatic Democratic Governors Have Eye on White House  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Many elected Democrats have drifted left since the party's shattering defeat last November, turning to a brand of progressive politics that is closer to Senator Bernie Sanders's democratic socialism …
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:   Dem donors buzzing about Kamala Harris
Michael Rothfeld / Wall Street Journal:
New York Seeks Bank Records of Former Trump Associate Paul Manafort  —  Loans issued by a bank run by former campaign adviser Steve Calk are focus of subpoena  —  New York prosecutors have demanded records relating to up to $16 million in loans that a bank run by a former campaign adviser …
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Large majority in new poll worries of major war  —  A large majority of Americans fears the U.S. will become involved in a major war, according to a new survey.  —  About three-quarters of Americans, 76 percent, are worried the U.S. will become engaged in a major war over the course of the next four years …
Discussion: RedState
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NBC News:
NBC News Poll: American Fears of War Grow
Ben Strauss / Politico:
Is the President Fit?  —  Few props have been more indispensable to Donald Trump's presidency than the golf cart.  He drives them on his frequent weekend trips to the links (invariably at Trump-owned clubs, where he rolls onto the greens, too—normally a no-no).
Discussion: USA Today, Althouse and Shakesville
Peter Jamison / Washington Post:
Coast Guard wants to kick boats off Potomac River when president is golfing  —  The Trump family has offended many sectors of establishment Washington since their arrival in the nation's capital, from Langley's spymasters to mansion-dwellers in the District's Kalorama neighborhood.
Discussion: Shareblue
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David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:   Is the presidency good for Trump's business? Not necessarily at this golf course.
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Steven Mnuchin, Trump's treasury secretary, is hurtling toward his first fiasco  —  Shortly before he was sworn in as treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin spoke with his predecessor to get some advice.  —  Pay attention to the debt problems in Puerto Rico, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warned Mnuchin …
Discussion: Politico and Eschaton
 
 
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Greg Toppo / USA Today:
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Morning Consult:
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Washington Times:
First statewide bicycle tax in nation leaves bike-crazy Oregon riders deflated
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Infowars
Media Matters for America:
Fox host: Republicans who spoke out against Senate health care bill are “maybe not true to their country”
Discussion: Shareblue and Raw Story
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Sinclair executive defends company from ‘biased’ media in internal memo
David Brooks / New York Times:
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Former Clinton and Romney campaign chiefs join forces to fight election hacking
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Seeks to Close Federal Election Agency
Discussion: Salon and electionlawblog.org
Joe Concha / The Hill:
Megyn Kelly ratings hit new low, down to half of debut
New York Times:
As Paperwork Goes Missing, Private Student Loan Debts May Be Wiped Away
Colum Lynch / Foreign Policy:
Tillerson to Shutter State Department War Crimes Office
New York Times:
Trump Says He Has Signed More Bills Than Any President, Ever. He Hasn't.
Discussion: Politicus USA
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Liberals can win again if they stop being so annoying and fix their ‘hamburger problem’
 

 
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