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11:55 PM ET, July 25, 2017

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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: ABC News, Philly.com, RedState and Mediaite
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 …
Adam Shaw / Breitbart:
Trump's Attack on Sessions over Clinton Prosecution Highlights His Own ‘Weak’ Stance
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Sessions planning to announce leak investigations: report
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Cabinet Level Revolt Over Trump's Treatment of Jeff Sessions.  “A Clusterf**k” One Secretary Calls It.
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
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Skinny repeal: the last-ditch idea to save the Senate health care bill  —  “Skinny repeal” is the latest ploy from GOP leaders.  —  Sources suggest that Senate Republicans are weighing a last-ditch idea to pass some kind of health care bill in the coming days: a narrowly focused Obamacare repeal bill.
New York Times:
Senate Votes Down Broad Obamacare Repeal  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate voted narrowly on Tuesday to begin debate on a bill to repeal major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, but hours later, Republican leaders suffered a setback when their most comprehensive plan to replace President Barack …
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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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Scaramucci threatens to ‘fire everybody’ to stop White House leaks  —  President Donald Trump's newly appointed communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, said Tuesday that he is prepared to “fire everybody” in the White House communications shop in order to put an end to embarrassing internal leaks.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House press aide resigns amid shakeup
Discussion: Politico, IJR and Talking Points Memo
Elana Schor / Politico:
House approves Russia sanctions that handcuff Trump
Discussion: Shareblue
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Press aide resigns as White House purge begins: 'I'm going to fire everybody,' says Scaramucci
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
Discussion: vice
BBC:
Trump boy scout Jamboree speech angers parents
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 …
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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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. …
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: CNN and Weekly Standard
Miriam Rozen / National Law Journal:
Discussion: Shareblue and Washington Times
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Josh Delk / The Hill:   Ivanka Trump retains defense lawyer for Russia investigation
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Wasserman Schultz aide arrested trying to leave the country  —  Imran Awan, a House staffer at the center of a criminal investigation potentially impacting dozens of Democratic lawmakers, has been arrested on bank fraud and is prevented from leaving the country while the charges are pending.
Discussion: IJR
 
 
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Associated Press:
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Tara Copp / Military Times:
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
State Department denies rumors of possible Tillerson exit
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House passes Russia sanctions bill, setting up veto dilemma for Trump
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Co-founder of firm tied to Trump dossier agrees to speak to Senate panel
Discussion: Refinery29 and RedState
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Judiciary Committee to turn the Russia investigation back on Fusion GPS
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Ted Barrett / CNN:
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