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2:15 PM ET, July 19, 2017

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Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
GOP Lawmaker Got Direction From Moscow, Took It Back to D.C. … Members of the team of Russians who secured a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner also attempted to stage a show trial of anti-Putin campaigner Bill Browder on Capitol Hill.
Discussion: The Atlantic
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Bombshell report: Kremlin directed GOP congressman to stage pro-Putin ‘show trial’ on the House floor  —  A bombshell report claims that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), who has long been described as “Putin's favorite congressman,” was given explicit instructions by the Kremlin for how to attack sanctions against Russia last year.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Report: Donald Trump Jr. ‘miserable’
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Gabriel Schoenfeld / USA Today:
Donald Trump Jr. and the whiff of treason: Morally, he's in deep.
Discussion: Washington Post
RT:
Trump Jr. scandal: Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya ready ‘to share everything’ with Senate
Discussion: ABC News
Nicole Lafond / Talking Points Memo:
Lewandowski: The President Is Going To Close The Deal On O'care Repeal Today  —  President Donald Trump's former campaign manager thinks the President will probably “close the deal today” on an Obamacare repeal bill because Trump is “a great dealmaker.”  —  Appearing on “Fox and Friends” …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump calls on Senate to end filibuster after healthcare defeat  —  President Trump on Tuesday called on the Senate to end the legislative filibuster after the collapse of the Republican healthcare plan.  —  “The Senate must go to a 51 vote majority instead of current 60 votes.
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Trump calls Mike Lee in attempt to revive Senate healthcare bill  —  President Trump has reached out to Sen. Mike Lee, the conservative who helped deal what appeared to be a fatal blow to the Senate healthcare bill, as part of a last ditch effort to revive the legislation.
Discussion: The Hill, Axios and Weekly Standard
Alexander C. Kaufman / HuffPost:
Al Gore Calls For Single-Payer Health Care  —  The former vice president blamed the “morass” surrounding Obamacare passage in 2009 for tanking a cap-and-trade bill that would have curbed pollution.  —  NEW YORK Al Gore called for single-payer health care on Tuesday, one day after a revolt …
Wall Street Journal:
The ObamaCare Republicans  —  Voters may repeal and replace …
Discussion: New York Times
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Health care collapse a blow to McConnell
John Merline / Investor's Business Daily:
Democrats Will Soon Regret That Republicans Failed To Repeal ObamaCare
Discussion: neo-neocon
Donald Trump / ABC News:
The Note: Undisclosed Trump-Putin meeting is latest firestorm
Discussion: Axios
Washington Post:
'It's an insane process': How Trump and Republicans failed on their health-care bill
The Hill:
Trump: Voter fraud panel will find ‘full truth’  —  President Trump warned of the dangers of voter fraud Wednesday, as he kicked off the first meeting of his voter fraud commission that has so far been mired in controversy.  —  Speaking to his Commission on Election Integrity …
Discussion: RedState
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Jason L. Riley / Wall Street Journal:
The President's Base vs. the Republican Party
Discussion: Vox and NBC News
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump stokes voter fraud fears as commission convenes
Discussion: ABC News, Axios and Associated Press
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Supporters Have His Back, Poll Finds
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
Sofi Sinozich / ABC News:
A midterm preference for Democrats, but without anti-Trump motivation (POLL)  —  A majority of Americans prefer to see the next Congress controlled by the Democrats to counter President Donald Trump rather than the Republicans to support him — but without the level of anti-Trump motivation the opposition party may be banking on.
Discussion: The Week
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Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Poll: Voters Cool on Trump-Russia Meeting, but Resist Impeachment Calls
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
ANOTHER pivot: tax reform and infrastructure, but Trump needs to BEWARE …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
USPS broke law in allowing workers to boost Clinton campaign, watchdog says  —  The United States Postal Service violated federal law by letting employees do union-funded work for Hillary Clinton's campaign and other Democratic candidates while on leave from the agency, according to an Office …
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Bill Glauber / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:   Wisconsin letter carrier to testify Wednesday on political campaigning by postal workers
Daily Mail:
Charlie Gard is given legal permanent residence in US by Congress so ‘he can fly to the States for world class treatment’  —  Charlie Gard is being given legal and permanent residence in the US by Congress in order to allow him to fly to America for treatment.
Discussion: CNN, The Stream, TheBlaze and Daily Wire
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Rep: Charlie Gard granted permanent residence status
Discussion: RedState and myfox8.com
Laurie Roberts / Arizona Republic:
Arizona Senate candidate under attack for being Muslim  —  Laurie Roberts: Responses to Deedra Abboud's Facebook posts have ranged from disturbing to just plain scary.  —  CONNECT  —  She's the other challenger to Sen. Jeff Flake.  —  A native of Little Rock, Ark. A Phoenix attorney and civil rights activist.
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
What Congressional Republicans Really Think About Trump and Russia  —  With each new revelation in the ongoing Trump-Russia saga, the same question inevitably gets asked: Will this be the moment Republicans in Congress finally turn on the president?  —  The answer, so far, has been an emphatic …
Discussion: Raw Story
New Jersey Online:
Criticize Trump at your peril, Republican candidates.  Just ask Kim Guadagno.  —  Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno.  —  NJ Advance Media for NJ.com  —  TRENTON — Already trailing badly in the polls, Republican New Jersey governor candidate Kim Guadagno has been hit with another devastating 1-2 punch …
Discussion: Shareblue
Vanita Gupta / New York Times:
The Voter Purges Are Coming  —  The Trump administration's election-integrity commission will have its first meeting on Wednesday to map out how the president will strip the right to vote from millions of Americans.  It hasn't gotten off to the strongest start: Its astonishing request …
James Poniewozik / New York Times:
Watching ‘Fox & Friends,’ Trump Sees a Two-Way Mirror  —  The producers of children's TV know the key to holding a distractible audience's attention: interactivity.  —  Dora the Explorer asks kids to repeat after her ("Swiper, no swiping!").  Mr. Rogers broke the fourth wall to welcome them to his neighborhood.
The Guardian:
Poland may be stripped of EU voting rights over judicial independence  —  Rightwing government's planned reforms for legal system could prompt triggering of article 7 for the first time … The EU is on the brink of taking the nuclear option of stripping Poland of its voting rights in Brussels …
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Over 20 members of Congress ask the FBI to review Ivanka Trump's security clearance … WASHINGTON — Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., has some questions about President Trump's daughter, Ivanka.  —  Beyer put together a group of over 20 Democratic members of the House of Representatives who
Discussion: ThinkProgress, AOL and Axios
 
 
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Jeet Heer / New Republic:
The Dirtbag Left and the Problem of Dominance Politics
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court allows Trump travel ban enforcement, but says it must allow broader exemptions for relatives
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Alanna Petroff / CNNMoney:
Starbucks embraces its status as jargon king
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Bloomberg:
Tillerson to Shut Cyber Office in State Department Reorganization
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The Republican war on the CBO, explained
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EXCLUSIVE - MILO: NPR Killed Book Interview ‘Because I Sounded Too Reasonable’
Discussion: Althouse
Roy Gutman / The Daily Beast:
Turkey Leaks Secret Locations of U.S. Troops in Syria
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Just Security
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Trump as a Novel: An Implausible ‘Soap Opera Without the Sex and Fun’
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Trump administration unveils new Iran sanctions
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump and Putin Held a Second, Undisclosed, Private Meeting
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
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