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The Daily Beast:
Jeff Sessions Is Growing ‘Pissed’ at Trump, His Allies Say.  And He Doesn't Plan to Quit. … Attorney General Jeff Sessions has no plans to leave office as friends say he's grown angry with President Donald Trump following a series of attacks meant to marginalize his power and, potentially, encourage his resignation.
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
The standoff between Trump and Sessions escalates … The public standoff between the White House and the nation's senior law enforcement official took another strange turn Tuesday as President Trump escalated his verbal attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was urged by fellow conservatives to stand his ground.
Washington Post:
This is not okay  —  WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a tweet Tuesday for not aggressively investigating Hillary Clinton, most attention focused, understandably, on the implications for Mr. Sessions.  Yet even more alarming than the president's assault …
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Won't Say if He Will Fire Sessions  —  'I'm very disappointed in Jeff Sessions,' president says in interview  —  WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump expressed his disappointment in Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday and questioned the importance of Mr. Sessions's early endorsement …
Sophia Tesfaye / Salon:
Breitbart, conservatives, are ready to go to the mat for Jeff Sessions — and turn on Donald Trump  —  What could possibly make the president's favorite right-wing website turn against him?  Jeff Sessions  —  Jeff Sessions has done more than any other person, aside from Steve Bannon …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Eyes Tax-Code Overhaul, With Emphasis on Middle-Class Break  —  In Oval Office interview with the Journal, president again criticizes Sessions  —  In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, President Trump continued to criticize Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his decision …
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Sessions planning to announce leak investigations: report  —  will reportedly make an announcement about several criminal leak investigations within days.  —  Officials told The Washington Post about the forthcoming news from the Justice Department.  The investigations will be centered …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Adam Shaw / Breitbart:
Trump's Attack on Sessions over Clinton Prosecution Highlights His Own ‘Weak’ Stance
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
First GOP health care bill fails, with many more votes to come  —  The Senate GOP's Affordable Care Act replacement plan did a face plant on Tuesday night, with nine Republicans and all Democrats voting against it.  But it was only the first vote of what's sure to be a long process, and its failure wasn't a surprise.
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Bloomberg:
Senate Health-Care Debate Opens With Rejection of McConnell Plan  —  Vote opens several days of debate on replacing Obamacare  —  Senate to vote Wednesday on simple repeal, also likely to fail  —  The Senate rejected Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's health-care proposal late Tuesday …
Discussion: The Week
New York Times:   How Each Senator Voted on Full Obamacare Repeal-and-Replace
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Skinny repeal: the last-ditch idea to save the Senate health care bill
Tara Golshan / Vox:
Trump says the motion to proceed means Obamacare repeal is in “good shape.” Not so fast.
NBC News:
Senate Passes Key Vote to Move Forward on Health Care Bill
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Senators on hot mic: Trump is ‘crazy,’ 'I'm worried'  —  At the end of a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday morning, Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) didn't switch off her microphone.  Apparently speaking to Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the ranking Democrat of the committee …
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Timothy Gardner / Reuters:
U.S. energy secretary duped into fake interview with Russian comedians  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry optimistically discussed expanding American coal exports to Ukraine and other energy matters during a lengthy phone call this month with a Russian prankster who Perry thought was Ukraine's prime minister.
Discussion: The Week
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Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
Rick Perry thought he was talking to a world leader about pig manure. It was a prank call.
Discussion: The Guardian, Raw Story and Jezebel
New York Times:
Trump Finds Reason for the U.S. to Remain in Afghanistan: Minerals  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump, searching for a reason to keep the United States in Afghanistan after 16 years of war, has latched on to a prospect that tantalized previous administrations: Afghanistan's vast mineral wealth …
Cristina Silva / Newsweek:
TRUMP BOY SCOUT SPEECH IS NAZI HITLER YOUTH RALLY, LEFT SAYS  —  President Donald Trump brought his bombastic politics to a Boy Scouts event Monday in West Virginia, drawing cheers from the children gathered at the event and prompting comparisons between his rousing rhetoric and Nazi youth rallies …
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:   The 29 most cringe-worthy lines from Donald Trump's hyper-political speech to the Boy Scouts
BBC:
Trump boy scout Jamboree speech angers parents
Jim Newell / Slate:
Did Ron Johnson Almost Torpedo the Motion to Proceed?  —  Shortly before noon, reporters caught Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson on the Senate subway platform and informed him of “skinny repeal,” the last-ditch option leaders were using to entice Republican senators to support the motion to proceed on health care reform.
Jack Shafer / Politico:
I'd Like to Report a Scam Against the Elderly  —  The foul fog of elder scam has fallen over the White House, looting Donald Trump of what precious little credibility remains in his possession.  No need to panic, though—the perpetrator has been identified.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House press aide resigns amid shakeup  —  White House press aide Michael Short resigned on Tuesday, capping off hours of drama over whether he would be fired by President Trump's new communications director.  —  “I have resigned, effective immediately,” Short said in a brief text message.
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New York Times:
N.F.L. Brains … Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist, has examined the brains of 202 deceased football players.  A broad survey of her findings was published on Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association.  —  Of the 202 players, 111 of them played in the N.F.L. …
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
North Korea could cross ICBM threshold next year, U.S. officials warn in new assessment … North Korea will be able to field a reliable, nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile as early as next year, U.S. officials have concluded in a confidential assessment that dramatically shrinks …
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Newly declassified memos detail extent of improper Obama-era NSA spying  —  The National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation violated specific civil liberty protections during the Obama years by improperly searching and disseminating raw intelligence on Americans or failing …
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
How Jared Kushner Helped the Russians Get Inside Access to the Trump Campaign  —  If you read Jared Kushner's statement to congressional committees looking for evidence of a crime, there isn't much there.  But if you read it from the perspective of the Russians trying to gain a toehold …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and CNN
Ted Barrett / CNN:
Senate won't let Trump make recess appointments  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  Washington (CNN)Senators are planning to continue procedural moves to prevent the Senate from formally adjourning for recess next month in order to prevent President Donald Trump from making recess appointments …
Campus Reform:
EXCLUSIVE: Weinstein files $3.8M claim against Evergreen State  —  Bret Weinstein, the Evergreen State College professor who was driven from campus by a mob of students earlier this year, is preparing to file a $3.8 million claim against the public institution.
Discussion: Fox News Insider and Instapundit
 
 
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Judiciary Committee to turn the Russia investigation back on Fusion GPS
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