memeorandum: House GOP lawmakers double down on Muslim Brotherhood comments (Meghashyam Mali/The Hill)

2:10 PM ET, July 29, 2012

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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:

Dick Cheney: Picking Sarah Palin for VP Was ‘A Mistake’ — Dick Cheney has some advice for Mitt Romney on choosing a running mate: Don't pick another Sarah Palin. — In his first interview since receiving a heart transplant in March, Cheney told ABC News, that John McCain's decision …

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Richard A. Muller / New York Times:

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Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
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Washington Post:

Romney would ‘respect the decision’ of Israel to attack Iran to stop nuclear weapon capability, adviser says — View Photo Gallery — Romney continues overseas tour: The Republican presidential candidate began his week-long overseas tour with a stop in London, praising …

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Romney would back Israeli strike against Iran, senior adviser says

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Benjamin Netanyahu / CNN:
Romney talks tough on Iran

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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:

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Jonathan Martin / Politico:

Romney to allow press into Israel fundraiser after all — JERUSALEM — Mitt Romney's campaign has reversed a decision to not allow the media into a fundraiser here Monday morning, bowing to reporters' demand that they be allowed to record the Republican's address to some of his top donors.

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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Romney Breaks Agreement with Media: Bans Media From Covering Jerusalem Fundraiser UPDATE: Abruptly Changes Its Mind

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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney bans media from Jerusalem fundraiser, violating pre-established protocol

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CNN:
Romney campaign changes mind, allows press into fund-raiser

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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:

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Emily Friedman / ABCNEWS:

Romney and Wife Go to Jerusalem's Western Wall — JERUSALEM — Mitt and Ann Romney visited one of the holiest sites in the Jewish faith today, arriving at the Western Wall on a sacred day of mourning in Israel. — The Romneys arrived via motorcade at the site of prayer and spent …

Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:

Temple Mount Tackiness — Today is Tisha b'Av, the ninth of Av, a Jewish day of fasting and mourning. It is on this day that the First and Second Temples were destroyed. The Western Wall, in Jerusalem, is a retaining wall of the Second Temple. It is, especially on this day, a locus of prayer and reflection.

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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:

House GOP lawmakers double down on Muslim Brotherhood comments — Republican lawmakers who demanded an investigation into whether Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff is a covert agent for the Muslim Brotherhood said this week they have no regrets. — Former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann …

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Associated Press:

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Mark Sappenfield / Christian Science Monitor:

Opening Ceremony London 2012: Did director take shot at US on health care? — The director of the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Games created a production for the 99 percent, it seems. For an Olympic movement that hates controversy, that is unusual. — LONDON

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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:

Political Memo: Obama Campaign Takes Gamble in Going Negative — CHICAGO — As President Obama pushes Mitt Romney to release more of his tax returns, a television commercial from his campaign bluntly says, “Makes you wonder if some years he's paid any taxes at all.”

Julian Pecquet / The Hill:

Obama blamed for failure of international arms-trade treaty — The United Nations indefinitely suspended action on an international arms trade treaty Friday after the United States and several other countries asked for more time. — The decision sparked angry reactions …

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Arms-trade treaty talks collapse, supporters rip Obama