memeorandum: Dunford: Military option for North Korea not ‘unimaginable’ (Nahal Toosi/Politico)

8:45 AM ET, July 23, 2017

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Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:

Read Anthony Scaramucci's old tweets. You'll understand why he deleted them. — New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci hasn't always shared the political views of the administration he now serves. — In previous tweets, the Wall Street financier called Hillary Clinton …

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

The Mooch and the Mogul — WASHINGTON — President Trump has finally found a courtier who can give him the buttery, boundless respect he craves. — A wealthy mini-me Manhattan bro with wolfy smile and slick coif who will say anything and flip any position.

Discussion: Raw Story, Fusion, Refinery29, AOL, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, The Daily Caller and Wall Street Journal

Annie Karni / Politico:
The untouchable Hope Hicks

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and The Hill

John Bowden / The Hill:
Scaramucci deletes old tweets bashing Trump

Discussion: Trump On Media, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, twitchy.com, TheStreet, The Atlantic, TheBlaze and The Daily Beast

Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scaramucci goes full Breitbart

Discussion: Politico, The Gateway Pundit, Breitbart and Hullabaloo

New York Times:

Congress Reaches Deal on Russia Sanctions, Creating Tough Choice for Trump — WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders have reached an agreement on sweeping sanctions legislation to punish Russia for its election-meddling and aggression toward its neighbors, they said Saturday …

Discussion: Axios and Political Wire

Nahal Toosi / Politico:

Dunford: Military option for North Korea not ‘unimaginable’ — ASPEN, Colorado — Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, suggested Saturday that Americans must be prepared for the possibility of a military confrontation with North Korea, whose nuclear program he deemed an urgent threat.

Discussion: Axios

Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House to vote on Russia sanctions deal next week

Discussion: ABC News

Peter Baker / New York Times:

Trump's Attack on Russia Inquiry Is From Familiar Playbook: The Clintons' — WASHINGTON — More than eight months after his election, President Trump still attacks Hillary Clinton, disparaging her campaign and accusing her of illegality. In his latest Twitter barrage on Saturday …

Discussion: The Guardian, FOX40, TheBlaze, Mediaite, AOL, The Week, Mother Jones, Raw Story, Politicus USA, The Gateway Pundit, IJR and The Hill

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Can the President Be Indicted? A Long-Hidden Legal Memo Says Yes — WASHINGTON — A newfound memo from Kenneth W. Starr's independent counsel investigation into President Bill Clinton sheds fresh light on a constitutional puzzle that is taking on mounting significance amid the Trump-Russia inquiry …

Discussion: Liberal Values, Daily Kos, Raw Story and Political Wire

Charlie Savage / New York Times: Newly Disclosed Clinton-era Memo Says Presidents Can Be Indicted

Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:

McCain's primary rival urges him to step aside after diagnosis — and suggests she could replace him — A day after news came out about Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) brain cancer diagnosis, his one-time political opponent urged the ailing senator to think about his political future sooner rather than later …

Discussion: Arizona Republic and New York Magazine

Josh Delk / The Hill:
McCain's primary challenger asks him to step aside after diagnosis

Discussion: RedState

Amie Parnes / The Hill:

Sanders keeping door open on 2020 — in the 2016 Democratic primary and created a revolutionary movement among millennials, is having discussions about running for president again. — “Yes, is the answer,” said one Sanders associate who helped with the senator's previous bid …

Discussion: Political Wire

Zack Stanton / Politico:

Senator Kid Rock. Don't Laugh. — Consensus formed at warp speed that Kid Rock's possible U.S. Senate bid shouldn't be taken seriously. That's a huge mistake. — As you're reading this, odds are a Democratic operative in Michigan or Washington, D.C., is listening to Kid Rock's gravelly voice …

Sam Webb / The Sun:

NO GROPING Swimming pool bosses put up signs banning migrants from female changing rooms and telling them not to grope women in Austrian market town — The signs were posted in a swimming pool in the Austrian town of Perchtoldsdorf — A SWIMMING pool has stuck up signs targeted …

Discussion: Power Line

Glenn Thrush / New York Times:

Trump's ‘Great National Infrastructure Program’? Stalled — WASHINGTON — As a candidate, President Trump billed himself as a new breed of think-big Republican, pitching a $1 trillion campaign pledge to reconstruct the nation's roadways, waterworks and bridges — along with a promise to revive the lost art of the bipartisan deal.

Discussion: Political Wire

Ken Meyer / Mediaite:

Glenn Beck Dishes on Tomi Lahren: 'I Would've Fired Her the Day I Met Her' — During his conversation with Mediaite columnist John Ziegler, Glenn Beck offered some significant insight into Tomi Lahren's departure from TheBlaze. Not the least significant detail was that Beck apparently wanted Lahren …