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2:05 PM ET, July 17, 2019

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Jack Bohrer / NBC News:
Tape shows Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein discussing women at 1992 party  —  The November 1992 tape in the NBC archives shows Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein more than a decade before Epstein pleaded guilty to felony prostitution charges in Florida.  —  Inside a 1992 party with Trump, Jeffrey Epstein
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MSNBC:
Newly-found footage shows Trump, Epstein at a '92 party  —  Newly found footage from NBC News' archives shows Donald Trump apparently talking about women with Jeffrey Epstein, now a registered sex offender, at a party at Mar-a-Lago in November 1992.  The party was a decade before Epstein's plea deal in Florida.
Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Most Americans call Trump's tweets targeting 4 congresswomen ‘un-American’  —  WASHINGTON - A clear majority of Americans say President Trump's tweets targeting four minority congresswomen were “un-American,” according to a new USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll.  But most Republicans say they agreed …
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Chris Kahn / Reuters:
Republican support for Trump rises after racially charged tweets: Reuters/Ipsos poll  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Support for U.S. President Donald Trump increased slightly among Republicans after he lashed out on Twitter over the weekend in a racially charged attack on four minority Democratic congresswomen …
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Eric Trump: ‘95 percent’ of Americans agree with my father  —  Eric Trump on Wednesday heralded his father, President Donald Trump, as “the greatest fighter in the world,” and claimed that “95 percent” of people in the U.S. support his political message even as the president has worked to beat …
Discussion: CNN, Fox News and Political Wire
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Ben Carson: Trump is not a racist and his comments were not racist  —  Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson said Wednesday he does not believe President Trump is a racist, nor did he find the president's tweets telling minority congresswomen to “go back” to other countries to be racist.
Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Times
New York Times:
Trump Sets the 2020 Tone: Like 2016, Only This Time ‘the Squad’ Is Here  —  WASHINGTON — With three days of attacks on four liberal, minority freshman congresswomen, President Trump and the Republicans have sent the clearest signal yet that their approach to 2020 will be a racially divisive reprise …
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Trump attacks on ‘The Squad’ drives wedge between campaign and critical voters  —  President Trump's incendiary claims that his Democratic critics in Congress are un-American are driving a deep wedge between his 2020 campaign and critical elements of the coalition he needs to secure a second term with.
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Reminder: Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib questioned the loyalty of Americans who support Israel  —  Over the weekend President Trump unleashed a series of tweets that I agreed were racist, because they lumped together four nonwhite congresswomen who he said should go back to their countries …
Discussion: CBS News
Axios:
Trump's premeditated racism is central to his 2020 strategy
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Ocasio-Cortez gets new 2020 challenger: a Republican immigrant from Jamaica  —  EXCLUSIVE — Scherie Murray, a New York businesswoman who immigrated from Jamaica as a child and is active in state Republican politics, is launching a campaign Wednesday for the congressional seat held by Democratic …
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Why Trump must acknowledge that he went too far this time
Discussion: Washington Post and CNN
Edward Luce / Financial Times:   Donald Trump's race-baiting strategy to secure second term
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Why Democrats' oversight machine is moving so slowly against Trump  —  House Democrats have kicked and screamed about the White House's refusal to allow key Trump officials to come before Congress.  But they haven't done the one thing they can do to force the issue: Go to court.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Heather Caygle / Politico:
House to vote on whether to consider articles of impeachment for Trump
Discussion: Fortune, CNN and Washington Post
Yahoo:
Chris Pratt criticised for ‘white supremacist’ T-shirt  —  Chris Pratt is facing criticism over a T-shirt he was pictured wearing featuring a controversial symbol.  —  The  —  Marvel star's top shows the American flag with a coiled snake over the top and a message underneath which reads “Don't Tread On Me.”
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Yahoo's story on Chris Pratt's ‘white supremacist’ T-shirt did us all a disservice  —  U.S. media took a bold stand against racist tweets by the president of the United States this week, with much of it objectively calling Donald Trump's behavior “racist” after resisting that label in its news coverage for years.
Discussion: twitchy.com
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Rand Paul angles to become Trump's emissary to Iran  —  Over a round of golf this past weekend, Sen. Rand Paul asked President Donald Trump's blessing for a sensitive diplomatic mission.  —  Paul proposed sitting down with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to extend a fresh olive branch …
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Nahal Toosi / Politico:   Trump's better deal with Iran looks a lot like Obama's
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Who Led Liberal Wing, Dies at 99  —  John Paul Stevens, whose 35 years on the United States Supreme Court transformed him, improbably, from a Republican antitrust lawyer into the outspoken leader of the court's liberal wing, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 99.
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
The Humane Legacy of John Paul Stevens
Discussion: Washington Post and NPR
German Lopez / Vox:
One of John Paul Stevens's last big ideas: repealing the 2nd Amendment
Discussion: Politico, New York Times and Reason
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
'Trump's Going to Get Re-elected, Isn't He?'  —  Voters have reason to worry.  —  I'm struck at how many people have come up to me recently and said, “Trump's going to get re-elected, isn't he?”  And in each case, when I drilled down to ask why, I bumped into the Democratic presidential debates in June.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
New York Times:
Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew.  This is how it was saved.  —  A baffling alert.  A race to the wrong building.  Notre-Dame still stands only because firefighters decided to risk everything, a New York Times reconstruction has found.
Discussion: New York Post
Joseph Simonson / Washington Examiner:
Biden's campaign paid a speech coach a day after widely panned debate performance  —  The day after Joe Biden tanked in the first round of Democratic presidential debates, his campaign hired a prominent speech coach for the 36-year senator and 8-year vice president.
Discussion: Fox News and Political Wire
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Jason Lemon / Newsweek:
Joe Biden Is ‘Dangerously Close to Using Republican Talking Points’, Says Ex-Clinton Adviser
Discussion: New Republic
Andrew Freedman / Washington Post:
Widespread, oppressive and dangerous heat to roast much of the U.S. through the weekend  —  A heat wave featuring a life-threatening combination of heat and oppressive humidity has begun to spread across the United States, with excessive heat warnings and heat advisories in effect for at least 22 states and the District of Columbia.
Colleen Flaherty / Inside Higher Ed:
Pinker, Epstein, Soldier, Spy  —  Steven Pinker's aid in Jeffrey Epstein's legal defense renews criticism of an increasingly divisive public intellectual.  —  That convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had help in avoiding federal or state prison is unsurprising: money and power often buy what they shouldn't.
Washington Post:
Unauthorized immigrants face public backlash in Mexico, survey finds  —  MEXICO CITY — Mexicans are deeply frustrated with immigrants after a year of heightened migration from Central America through the country, according to a survey conducted by The Washington Post and Mexico's Reforma newspaper.
Keith Woods / NPR:
Report On Racism, But Ditch The Labels  —  Toggle more options … Once again, the president of the United States has used the sniper tower of Twitter to take aim at immigration, race relations and common decency.  And once again, journalists are daring their profession to boldly call bigotry what it is: bigotry.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Once Trump Talked About ‘American Carnage.’ Now He Says Critics Should Leave.  —  WASHINGTON — America stinks.  At least that's what Donald J. Trump seemed to be saying before becoming president.  —  He did not believe in “American exceptionalism,” he said, because America was not exceptional.
Los Angeles Times:
An ultra-violent MS-13 gang entered the U.S., then stalked L.A. with blades and bats  —  One by one, the victims were lured to remote locations: an abandoned building in downtown Los Angeles, an empty rooftop in Hollywood, a quiet park in the San Fernando Valley.
Bill Scher / Politico:
How the Democratic Netroots Died  —  Twelve years ago, progressive political bloggers were so influential that nearly every 2008 Democratic presidential candidate attended the Yearly Kos convention—a gathering of liberal online activists named after Markos Moulitsas' popular Daily Kos website.
John McCormack / National Review:
Kamala Harris's Preposterous New Claim About Medicare for All  —  In an interview with CNN, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris repeatedly claims that she will fund Medicare for All, a $30 trillion single-payer national health-care program, without raising taxes on the middle class:
Discussion: Mother Jones
Federal Register:
AGENCY:  —  Executive Office for Immigration Review, Department of Justice; U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security.  —  ACTION:  —  Interim final rule; request for comment.  —  The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security ("DOJ …
Discussion: Lawfare and The Daily Caller
Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
With Name-Calling and Twitter Battles, House Republican Campaign Arm Copies Trump's Playbook  —  WASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is portrayed as wearing clown makeup.  Democratic congressional candidates — including an Air Force combat veteran — are labeled “socialist losers” or anti-Semites.
Discussion: DCCC
Scott Bauer / Associated Press:
Trump voters cringe and shrug at tweets while Democrats rage  —  HELENVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Bill Brasch greeted President Donald Trump's latest tweet controversy with a shrug.  —  He doesn't believe Trump was being racist for telling four congresswomen, all women of color, to “go back” to the countries they came from.
Washington Post:
76 billion opioid pills: Newly released federal data unmasks the epidemic  —  America's largest drug companies saturated the country with 76 billion oxycodone and hydrocodone pain pills from 2006 through 2012 as the nation's deadliest drug epidemic spun out of control, according …
 
 
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Erielle Davidson / The Federalist:
Hiring Pro-Hamas Aide Completes Elizabeth Warren's Anti-Israel Pivot
YouTube:
Harris Falsely Claims Medicare For All Won't Raise Taxes
Discussion: twitchy.com
The Hill:
Sanders campaign vents frustration with media, polls
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
We are all ‘the Squad’ now  —  President Trump has forced us …
Amanda Teuscher / American Oversight:
American Oversight Sues for Betsy DeVos' Emails Sent with Personal Account
Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Emails show Iowa official's Tupac fixation before his ouster
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:
Former statewide judge leaves GOP, citing Trump's racism
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Bryan Caplan / Econlib:
Reflections from Spain  —  I just got back from a five-week visit to Spain.
 Earlier Items: 
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
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Armin Rosen / Tablet Magazine:
Everybody Knows  —  The incidents now pass without much notice …
Discussion: Jewish Insider and twitchy.com
Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
Can Scott Walker Save the Future of Conservatism?
New York Times:
Trump's New Top Labor Official Is Expected to Advance an Anti-Labor Agenda
Discussion: Splinter
Daniel Dale / CNN:
‘Sir’ alert: This one word is a telltale sign Trump is being dishonest
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
John Solomon / The Hill:
FBI's spreadsheet puts a stake through the heart of Steele's dossier
Discussion: RedState