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11:55 AM ET, August 3, 2017

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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Trump urged Mexican president to end his public defiance on border wall, transcript reveals  —  President Trump made building a wall along the southern U.S. border and forcing Mexico to pay for it core pledges of his campaign.  —  But in his first White House call with Mexico's president …
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Washington Post:
Highlights … JANUARY 27, 2017, FROM 9:35 TO 10:28 A.M. EST.  —  Hello, good morning.  —  Mr. President, good morning.  —  How are you, Mr. President?  —  I am good.  How are you?  It is good to speak with you.  Let me switch to Spanish so I will be more comfortable.
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Those Calls to Trump?  White House Admits They Didn't Happen  —  WASHINGTON — Has President Trump told you about the time the head of the Boy Scouts called to say his was the best speech ever delivered to the more than century-old organization?  What about when the president of Mexico picked …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
NBC News:
Trump Says U.S.'Losing' Afghan War in Tense Meeting With Generals  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has become increasingly frustrated with his advisers tasked with crafting a new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and recently suggested firing the war's top military commander during …
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Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
McMaster, On ‘Warpath,’ Purges Key Trump Allies From White House NSC  —  An ongoing staffing purge being conducted by White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster has thrown the West Wing into chaos, according to more than half a dozen Trump administration insiders who told …
Kristina Wong / Breitbart:
Report: H.R. McMaster Fired National Security Council Official for Penning Memo on Globalists
CNN:
Scaramucci to hold online event Friday  — Scaramucci will be hosting an online event on Friday where he will address the American people directly  —  (CNN) Anthony Scaramucci wants to tell his own story.  —  Following his departure from the White House after less than 11 days …
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New Yorker:
Ryan Lizza Revisits His Phone Call with Anthony Scaramucci  —  Anthony Scaramucci placed the phone call that ended his career late at night; he reached Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker's Washington correspondent, at home.  During their conversation, parts of which are available here …
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Spicer savors his last days in the White House  —  Sean Spicer has been floating around the White House since he announced his resignation almost two weeks ago, dipping in and out of his office, attending meetings on tax reform and popping up for public ceremonies like retired Gen. John Kelly's swearing …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Trump set to embark on 1st vacation since inauguration
Discussion: Political Wire
Murray Waas / Vox:
Exclusive: top FBI officials could testify against Trump  —  The acting head of the bureau told top officials to prepare.  —  Shortly after the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller in May, acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe told several of the highest-ranking managers of the bureau …
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Associated Press:
Mueller's job would be protected by bipartisan Senate bill  —  WASHINGTON — Two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are moving to protect Special Counsel Robert Mueller's job, putting forth legislation that aims to ensure the integrity of current and future independent investigations.
GOLF.com:
PODCAST: The story behind our Trump golf story (and a certain explosive quote)  —  The real Donald Trump is revealed through his golf game  —  Of the 7,424 words in Alan Shipnuck's deep dive into President Trump's ties to golf in this week's issue of Sports Illustrated, seven words have caused a media frenzy:
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Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Golf journalist: At least 8 people heard Trump call the White House a ‘dump’
Discussion: RedState
Politico:
Lawyers, lawmakers leave Trump administration in limbo on Obamacare subsidies
Discussion: ABC News and Talking Points Memo
Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Reporter says ‘Russian propaganda outlet’ pushed him to cover conspiracy theory at the center of a White House lawsuit  —  WASHINGTON — Reporter Andrew Feinberg says a Russian state-owned news site he once worked for pressured him to advance a conspiracy theory about the fatal shooting …
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New York Times:
Oh, Wait.  Maybe It Was Collusion.  —  Did the Trump campaign collude with Russian agents trying to manipulate the course of the 2016 election?  Some analysts have argued that the media has made too much of the collusion narrative; that Jared Kushner and Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Feasting on False and Fake
Washington Post:
Trump's war on legal immigration would cripple the economy  —  PRESIDENT TRUMP says accelerating the United States' economic growth is one of his administration's most cherished goals.  On Wednesday, he embraced a legislative overhaul to the immigration system that, if enacted, would make that goal unattainable.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Supports Plan to Cut Legal Immigration by Half
Jonathan Lemire / Associated Press:
Trump's New Top Aide Assures Sessions His Job Is Safe  —  New White House chief of staff John Kelly, in one of his first acts in his new post, called Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reassure him that his position was safe despite the recent onslaught of criticism he has taken from President Donald Trump.
Sen. Marco Rubio / Breitbart:
Marco Rubio: We Need Real Tax Reform that Empowers Families  —  The cornerstone of pro-family economic policy is per-child tax relief.  —  In the 1994 midterm elections, conservative Republicans were swept into Congress after a campaign centered on the “Contract with America.”
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Attorney Subpoenas Kushner Cos.  Over Investment-For-Visa Program  —  Records sought from development firm owned by family of White House adviser Jared Kushner  —  Kushner Cos., the New York property development business owned by the family of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner …
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
A Vatican Shot Across the Bow for Hard-Line U.S. Catholics  —  VATICAN CITY — Two close associates of Pope Francis have accused American Catholic ultraconservatives of making an alliance of “hate” with evangelical Christians to back President Trump, further alienating a group already out of the Vatican's good graces.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Fearless Conservative Firebrand Laura Loomer Has Car Tires Slashed (Updated)  —  Fearless Conservative Firebrand Laura Loomer Has Car Tires Slashed  —  Earlier today, Laura Loomer, Rebel Media journalist and former Project Veritas operative, had a tire to her car slashed in what appears to be a pretty clear act of vandalism.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Annie Karni / Politico:
Zuckerberg hires former Clinton pollster Joel Benenson  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have hired Democratic pollster Joel Benenson, a former top adviser to President Barack Obama and the chief strategist to Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 presidential campaign …
Mary Beard / TheTLS:
Roman Britain in Black and White  —  I have been in something of a Twitter storm over the past few days, all because of an argument about the ethnic diversity of Roman Britain (sounds harmless enough you think, well... just see).  I have decided by the way not to include Twitter screen shots …
Discussion: bradford-delong.com and Vox Popoli
 
 
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Poll: Flake's approval rating in Arizona at 18 percent
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GOP states move to cut Medicaid
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Tillerson's Korea Confusion
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Alan I. Abramowitz / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Forecast Model Suggests Democratic Gains Likely in 2018 Gubernatorial Contests
Media Matters for America:
Pro-Trump outlet Sinclair is turning local news into Trump TV. Here's what it looks like.
Brandon Cockerham / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch: Justice Department Blacks Out Talking Points on Lynch-Clinton Tarmac Meeting
Discussion: Townhall.com
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Trump Keeps His Conservative Movement Allies Closest
Dow Jones Newswires:
The country is the least mobile since after World War II, even in economically depressed rural locales
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Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Democrats Don't Actually Believe in Democracy
Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP clash looms over raising the debt ceiling
Discussion: The Hill
Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Border Patrol Ordered To Block Congressmen During Travel Ban
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Rachel Chason / Washington Post:
He went to ICE to tell agents he had gotten into college.  Now he and his brother have been deported.