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11:35 AM ET, July 13, 2022

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Exclusive: Trump's Lawyers Think Mark Meadows Is Going Down — The Jan. 6 Committee is probing the former chief of staff's finances, Rolling Stone has learned, adding to a long list of legal headaches — As she opened the House Jan. 6 committee hearing Tuesday, Republican …

Washington Post:

Dramatic moments from deprogrammed right-wingers indict the whole GOP — Listen — Gift Article — Amid the parade of awful revelations unearthed by the House select committee examining the Jan. 6 insurrection, one area of immense culpability still needs further fleshing out.

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Alan Feuer / New York Times:

'It's Just Been Hell:' Life as the Victim of a Jan. 6 Conspiracy Theory — Ray Epps became the unwitting face of an attempt by pro-Trump forces to promote the baseless idea that the F.B.I. was behind the attack on the Capitol. — IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS — Up a winding country road …

Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:

Proof: Trump Planned the Mob's March to the Capitol — The January 6th Committee just proved it was deliberate strategy. — Donald Trump's defenders can finally drop the idea that he just happened to extemporaneously order the mob that he knew was armed to march to the Capitol in the course of his speech on January 6, 2021.

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Washington Post:
Trump hid plan for Capitol march on day he marked as ‘wild’, panel says

Politico:
‘His own choices’: Select panel says Trump — not his advisers — set Jan. 6 in motion

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Washington Post:
The Jan. 6 hearing showed how lies can kill

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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
The secret support system for former aides taking on Trump: The other women

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Mike Allen / Axios:

1 big thing: Seismic shift … - Democrats are becoming the party of upscale voters concerned more about issues like gun control and abortion rights. — Republicans are quietly building a multiracial coalition of working-class voters, with inflation as an accelerant.

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Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Poll Shows Tight Race for Control of Congress as Class Divide Widens — Nonwhite and working-class Democrats worry more about the economy, while white college graduates focus more on cultural issues like abortion rights and guns. — With President Biden's approval rating mired in the 30s …

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Jeff Cox / CNBC:

Inflation rose 9.1% in June, even more than expected, as price pressures intensify — Shoppers paid sharply higher prices for a variety of goods in June as inflation kept its hold on a slowing U.S. economy, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday.

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Rachel Siegel / Washington Post:
June inflation soared 9.1 percent amid high gas prices

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Gabriel T. Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Inflation Reached Highest Rate in Nearly 41 Years in June

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Associated Press:
U.S. inflation reached a new 40-year high in June of 9.1%

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Washington Post:

‘Unhinged’: The White House meeting that preceded Trump's ‘will be wild’ tweet — Gift Article — Late on a Friday night about six weeks after Donald Trump lost his reelection, a fistfight nearly broke out in the White House between the president's fired national security adviser and a top White House aide.

Discussion: NBC News, Associated Press, Talking Points Memo and USA Today

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:

Tears, Screaming and Insults: Inside an ‘Unhinged’ Meeting to Keep Trump in Power — Even by the standards of the Trump White House, a meeting on Dec. 18, 2020, that was highlighted Tuesday by the Jan. 6 committee was extreme. — Give this article- - - Read in app

Discussion: Mediaite, Digby's Hullabaloo, Bloomberg and Rolling Stone

Tony Plohetski / Austin American-Statesman:

Exclusive: Watch Uvalde school shooting video obtained by Statesman showing response — Editor's note: The video footage, audio, and events described in this story are disturbing. Discretion is advised. This exclusive story and video are being made available free of charge as a public service.

Manny Garcia / Austin American-Statesman:
Why the Austin American-Statesman chose to publish video from inside Robb Elementary

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Hans Nichols / Axios:

House centrists mull Manchin counteroffer: No new taxes — Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) is gauging support among House centrists for a counteroffer to the emerging Senate reconciliation package, with one big clause: No new taxes. … That could deprive President Biden — and vulnerable lawmakers …

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Ella Nilsen / CNN: More than 200 congressional staffers urge Pelosi and Schumer to act on climate or risk dooming younger generations

CBS News:

Charges: Man lit his camper on fire, defaced own garage to appear targeted due to Trump flag — MINNEAPOLIS - A Brooklyn Center man faces federal charges after he lit his own camper on fire to make it look like a politically-motivated crime, and then allegedly filed several fraudulent insurance claims.

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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
MAGA Fan Accused of Setting Fire to His Own Van After Blaming Biden Supporters and Black Lives Matter

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David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:

Introducing the 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠) — Now that all 50 states have finalized new lines for the 2022 elections, the Cook Political Report is pleased to introduce the 25th Anniversary edition of the Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠) …

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Bloomberg:

Biden Handshake With Netanyahu Muddles Bid to Limit MBS Contact — President Joe Biden wasn't supposed to shake hands with foreign leaders during his trip to the Middle East this week, a precaution against catching Covid-19 that would also help avoid a politically awkward greeting with Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed Bin Salman.

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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Biden Adopts ‘No Handshake’ Covid Policy, but Not For Long

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Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:

Senate Democrats Must Shoot Down Biden's Anti-Abortion Court Nominee — It's bad policy and worse politics. — S. Chad Meredith, Kentucky solicitor general, speaks to members of the media at the state Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky, June 10, 2021. — President Biden is reportedly bound …

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Burgess Everett / Politico: Schumer-Manchin talks on Dem agenda hit a new hurdle: Covid quarantine

Reuters:

Fact Check-U.S. Supreme Court has not voted to overturn 2020 presidential election result — The U.S. Supreme Court has not voted to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, despite claims made online. Legal professors told Reuters that no such decision was made …

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Anders Hagstrom / Fox News:

Trump lashes out at Elon Musk, says he could have made the billionaire ‘beg’ — Musk previously said the former president should ‘sail into the sunset’ — Coming up on Wednesday, July 13 edition of ‘Special Report’ — Former President Donald Trump continued his war of words …

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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:

Allegations of Manosphere Pastor's Gay Past Roil Macho Men — Jesse Lee Peterson has emerged as one of the right's most vocal anti-gay figures, but his one-time friends now allege that the pastor has had many same-sex relationships. — In the hyper-masculine right-wing internet community known as the …

Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:

EXCLUSIVE: Cassidy Hutchinson Begged Senior Trump Officials For ‘Financial Assistance’ After Being Subpoenaed By J6 Committee — The Jan. 6 Committee's key witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, asked former Senior Trump officials for financial assistance and legal help in February after she was subpoenaed …

Craig Mauger / Detroit News:

Whitmer's leads over GOP rivals raising doubts about red wave, poll finds — Lansing — Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has leads over all five of her potential GOP challengers less than four months before Election Day, raising doubts about whether a Republican wave will make landfall in Michigan.

Discussion: Political Wire

Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal:

Beware Wishful Thinking About Inflation and Recession — So long as underlying inflation is high, the Federal Reserve is not your friend — Inflation has peaked. The Fed's tightening has accomplished its mission. Strong labor market and consumer fundamentals will keep any recession mild.

Catherine Belton / Washington Post:

The man who has Putin's ear — and may want his job — Russian security chief Nikolai Patrushev is one of the Russian president's few close advisers — Listen — Gift Article — When Russian President Vladimir Putin held the final meeting of his Security Council before launching …

Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:

Mitt Romney Is Inventing Policies for a Fantasy G.O.P. — Last year, as an alternative to the temporary expansion of the child tax credit under President Biden's American Rescue Plan, Senator Mitt Romney of Utah introduced a plan to give every family a monthly benefit of up to $350 per child …

Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:

Russia's War Against Ukraine Has Turned Into Terrorism — Red Cross packages are lined up along the sidewalk in Serhiivka, a small town in the southwestern corner of Ukraine. A man is unloading plastic bags stamped World Central Kitchen from a truck whose front windshield has been completely shattered.

Kate Ahlborn / Fox News:

Exclusive: Read the private email Obama sent his former doc after he questioned Biden's cognitive health — Obama told Jackson, who was the doctor for three presidents, that criticizing Biden's mental state was ‘unprofessional’ — Hegseth on media, Democrats turning on President Biden: He is ‘persona non grata’

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