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Washington Post:
Trump leaves Sessions twisting in the wind while berating him publicly  —  President Trump and his advisers are privately discussing the possibility of replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and some confidants are floating prospects who could take his place were he to resign or be fired, according to people familiar with the talks.
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Lesley Clark / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump messes with Sessions, and Senate Republicans are not pleased  —  President Donald Trump is getting a bitter Washington lesson when he messes with Jeff Sessions - you don't pick a fight with one of the Senate's guys.  —  It's a lesson that could cost him politically in a Senate …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump in phone call: “What would happen if I fired Sessions?”  —  President Trump, in one of his hallmark rituals, recently called a longtime political associate and asked out of the blue: “What would happen if I fired Sessions?”  — Trump has been openly undermining Attorney General Jeff Sessions …
Discussion: Business Insider and Raw Story
Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump has sights set on belittling Sessions  —  WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY  — Is Jeff Sessions in danger of losing his job?  The president is continuing his public attacks against Sessions, tweeting this morning: “Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position …
Associated Press:
AP sources: Trump speaks to advisers about firing Sessions
Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Cabinet Level Revolt Over Trump's Treatment of Jeff Sessions.  “A Clusterf**k” One Secretary Calls It.
Discussion: twitchy.com
Jacqueline Thomsen / The Hill:
Cruz being considered to replace Sessions: report
Discussion: The Week, RedState and Balloon Juice
CNN:
Rudy Giuliani: Jeff Sessions ‘made the right decision’ to recuse from Russia probe
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Boehner predicts Republicans will ‘never’ repeal and replace Obamacare  —  Former House speaker John A. Boehner, who has mostly avoided public commentary since leaving Congress two years ago, told a business gathering last week that Republicans are “not going to repeal and replace Obamacare” …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Obamacare repeal vote still too close to call  —  Senate Republicans are barreling toward a dramatic and highly unusual vote on Obamacare Tuesday without knowing whether they'll have the votes to start dismantling the health care law.  —  At stake is not just the seven-year-old campaign pledge …
Associated Press:
The Latest: McConnell calls for GOP dissenters to back bill
Wall Street Journal:   Can Republicans Govern?  —  Some Senators want to talk forever about health care.
Sam Baker / Axios:
No one knows what the Senate's going to do. But it will do it today.
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
The Senate's evolving health care plan
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and NBC News
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Senate Republicans don't know what's in their health bill or what it would do.  They're voting anyway.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trumpcare Is the Worst-Designed Social Policy in History
Discussion: The Atlantic
William Sullivan / American Thinker:   For leading Republicans today, the answer is almost certainly yes.
Pete Grieve / CNN:
Rep. Farenthold: I'd ‘settle this Aaron Burr-style’ if senators resisting repeal were men
Dylan Scott / Vox:
John McCain to return to Senate for pivotal health care vote
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Sharon Begley / STAT:
Psychiatry group tells members they can defy ‘Goldwater rule’ and comment on Trump's mental health  —  leading psychiatry group has told its members they should not feel bound by a longstanding rule against commenting publicly on the mental state of public figures — even the president.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Althouse
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Scaramucci to oust White House press aide, offers ‘amnesty’ to others  —  Newly appointed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said on Tuesday that he plans to dismiss assistant press secretary Michael Short.  —  It would be Scaramucci's first step toward shaking …
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Washington Post:
New communications director moves toward possible staff purge at White House … Anthony Scaramucci, the flashy financier President Trump hired to overhaul the White House communications operation, is exercising a broad mandate from the president and intends to follow through on threats …
William D. Cohan / New York Times:
This Is Not the Mooch I Know  —  It's been a rough start for my friend Anthony Scaramucci as President Trump's surprise — and surprising — choice as the new White House communications director.  That's too bad, because I would like nothing better than for him to succeed wildly in his new job.
Discussion: Washington Post
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Senate Judiciary Committee issues subpoena for Manafort in Russia probe  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee has issued a subpoena for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to appear at a hearing Wednesday in the ongoing probe of Russia's activities during the 2016 campaign, the committee said Tuesday.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump praises Kushner: ‘Next up, 11 year old Barron Trump’  —  President Trump on Tuesday praised Jared Kushner after the senior White House aide denied any collusion with Russia.  —  Trump in an early morning tweet also decried the Russia investigation and referenced his 11-year-old son, Barron Trump.
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Pressure on Trump grows as Kushner is questioned
Discussion: Politico
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Jason Chaffetz, who recently stepped down from the House …
Discussion: Mediaite and Hullabaloo
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Scaramucci says it's ‘probably’ correct Trump wants Sessions gone  —  White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Tuesday said it is “probably” correct that President Trump wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions  —  gone.  —  But Scaramucci said he didn't want to speak for the president.
Discussion: AOL and The Week
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Axios:
Scaramucci: Trump “probably” wants Sessions gone
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Boos for Obama as Trump speaks at Boy Scout jamboree  —  The crowd attending President Trump's Monday evening speech to the Boy Scouts of America's National Jamboree appeared to boo former President Barack Obama  —  at one point.  —  “By the way, just a question.  Did President Obama ever come to a jamboree?”
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
After Trump's partisan speech, Boy Scouts of America reiterates that it is ‘wholly non-partisan’
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Raw Story and The Week
CNN:
Videos suggest Russian government may be arming Taliban  — Two videos obtained by CNN suggest the Taliban have received improved weaponry supplied by the Russian government  — Russia's Foreign Ministry declined to comment but has previously called claims they are arming the Taliban “utterly false”
Courtney Vinopal / Washingtonian:
Joshua Green: In Trump's World, “You're Never Really Dead if You Just Stick Around and Endure It”  —  The Bloomberg Businessweek correspondent has written a fascinating account of Steve Bannon's role in Trump's campaign.  —  When journalist Joshua Green attended a screening of a documentary …
 
 
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