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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.
Wall Street Journal:
The ObamaCare Republicans  —  Voters may repeal and replace the Senators who broke their promise.  —  The Editorial Board  —  Senate Republicans killed their own health-care bill on Monday evening, and some are quietly expressing relief: The nightmare of a hard decision is finally over …
Discussion: New York Times
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 …
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Trump calls Mike Lee in attempt to revive Senate healthcare bill
Discussion: Axios and Weekly Standard
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
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
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Report: Donald Trump Jr. ‘miserable’  —  Jr. is reportedly “miserable” and can't wait for the next four years to end.  —  A friend of President Trump's sons told People that Trump Jr. and Eric Trump “never wanted this.”  —  “Don can't do any deals, because he'll be overly scrutinized.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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: Raw Story
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Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:   Russian Anti-Sanctions Campaign Turned to California Congressman
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New York Times:
How the Senate Health Care Bill Failed: G.O.P. Divisions and a Fed-Up President  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump was fed up with the grind of health care legislation, and at a dinner with Republican senators on Monday at the White House, he let them know it.
Jason L. Riley / Wall Street Journal:
The President's Base vs. the Republican Party  —  Trump voters care more about having a leader who understands them than about quick policy wins.  —  The GOP's inability to scrap ObamaCare this week means, among other things, that President Trump will end his first six months in office without a major legislative accomplishment.
Discussion: Vox and NBC News
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Trump and Putin Held a Second, Undisclosed, Private Meeting  —  WASHINGTON — The White House acknowledged on Tuesday that President Trump had a second, previously undisclosed, private conversation with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia this month, raising new questions about their relationship …
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Washington Post:
Trump had undisclosed hour-long meeting with Putin at G-20 summit
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
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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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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
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: TheBlaze and Daily Wire
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Rep: Charlie Gard granted permanent residence status
Discussion: RedState and myfox8.com
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
ANOTHER pivot: tax reform and infrastructure, but Trump needs to BEWARE — TREASURY SECRETARIES: They're just like us ... MNUCHIN at Apple Store — ROVE: I wouldn't take Russia meeting  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  Good Wednesday morning and happy hump day.  TREASURY SECRETARIES, THEY'RE JUST LIKE US!
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Poll: Voters Cool on Trump-Russia Meeting, but Resist Impeachment Calls
Discussion: Business Insider
Roy Gutman / The Daily Beast:
Turkey Leaks Secret Locations of U.S. Troops in Syria … ISTANBUL—In the latest display of Turkish anger at U.S. policy in Syria, the state news agency has divulged the locations of 10 U.S. military bases and outposts in northern Syria where the U.S. is leading an operation to destroy …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Revealed: Trump's Still-Secret Plan to ‘Crush’ ISIS
Discussion: Just Security
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.
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, Axios and AOL
 
 
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