memeorandum: Jeb Bush Makes Surprise Pick for Political Director (Beth Reinhard/Wall Street Journal)

2:35 PM ET, June 19, 2015

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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:

Shooter Almost Backed Out Because ‘Everyone Was So Nice’ — Dylann Roof, the man accused of gunning down nine parishioners at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, has been charged with nine counts of murder and illegal weapons possession, police said.

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Ed Payne / CNN:

Story highlights — (CNN)[Breaking news update at 7:27 a.m. ET] — Dylann Roof has confessed to authorities to shooting and killing nine people this week at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, two law enforcement officials said Friday.

Liz Kreutz / ABC News:

Hillary Clinton Suggests Donald Trump-Like Comments Can ‘Trigger’ Events Like Charleston … Hillary Clinton didn't call The Donald out by name, but she suggested in an interview Thursday that comments like ones the real estate tycoon-turned-Republican presidential candidate made during …

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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:

Jeb Bush: 'I Don't Know' If Charleston Shooting Was Racially Motivated — As more becomes clear about the motives of the man believed to be behind the Charleston church shooting, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was hesitant to connect Dylann Storm Roof's alleged actions to any racial prejudice.

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Post and Courier:

Despite mourning, statehouse Confederate battle flag remains at full staff — The Confederate flag flying at the Statehouse in Columbia became part of the Charleston church shooting story Thursday after the U.S. and South Carolina flags were lowered in mourning but the rebel banner was left flying at its full height.

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Justin Wm / Washington Post:

Why South Carolina's Confederate flag isn't at half-mast after church shooting — After Dylann Storm Roof allegedly shot up an AME church in Charleston, S.C., killing nine people, two flags were lowered more than 100 miles away in Columbia, the state's capital.

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ABC News:

Dylann Roof's Uncle Would ‘Push Button’ Himself If Nephew Receives Death Penalty … The uncle of a 21-year-old man accused of opening fire inside a Charleston church — killing nine people — says he will “push the button myself” if his nephew receives the death penalty, which is legal in South Carolina.

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The Huffington Post:
Jeb Bush: 'I Don't Know What Was On The Mind' Of Charleston Shooter

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Wall Street Journal:
The Charleston Shooting — An echo of 52 years ago, but also a crucial difference.

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Washington Post:
For accused killer Dylann Roof, a life that had quietly drifted off track

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Erik Ortiz / NBC News:
South Carolina's Confederate Flag Not Lowered to Half-Staff After Massacre

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New York Times:
Dylann Roof, Suspect in Charleston Shooting, Flew the Flags of White Power

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Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Dylann Roof Had Confederate Plates. Here's Why the Rebel Flag Still Flies in South Carolina.

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Rachel E. Gross / Slate:
Why South Carolina's Confederate Flag Is Still Flying at Full Staff

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Brian Ries / Mashable:
Charleston shooting victim posted Snapchat from Bible study moments before attack

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Henry Louis Gates Jr / New York Times:
Henry Louis Gates: If Clementa Pinckney Had Lived

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Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Rick Santorum, reacting to Charleston shooting, denounces ‘assaults on our religious liberty’

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Anthea Butler / Washington Post:
Shooters of color are called ‘terrorists’ and ‘thugs.’ Why are white shooters called ‘mentally ill’?

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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
South Carolina's Confederate flag is still flying. It's an insult to Charleston's victims.

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Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:

Jeb Bush Makes Surprise Pick for Political Director — For the second time in less than two weeks, Jeb Bush is shuffling the top tier of his 2016 campaign staff. — The job of political director - expected to go to Kentucky-based consultant Scott Jennings - will instead be filled by David James …

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Voodoo, Jeb! Style — On Monday Jeb Bush — or I guess that's Jeb!, since he seems to have decided to replace his family name with a punctuation mark — finally made his campaign for the White House official, and gave us a first view of his policy goals. First, he says that if elected …

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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Operation Replace Jeb Bush

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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:

Health Law Repeal Would Raise Federal Deficits by $137 Billion in 10 Years, CBO Says — Ending health subsidies would increase number of uninsured Americans by 19 million in 2016 — Repealing the Affordable Care Act would cost the U.S. government $137 billion over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said on Friday.

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CBO's Publications:

Budgetary and Economic Effects of Repealing the Affordable Care Act — Over the past several years, a number of proposals have been advanced for repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which became law in March 2010. In this report, CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation …

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David Nakamura / Washington Post:

In L.A., Obama addresses Washington's dysfunction: ‘I did not say I would fix it’ — BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — President Obama wrapped up a day he began with an angry and frustrated reaction to the mass killings in Charleston, S.C., by acknowledging that he has been unable to change the culture …

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Carl Icahn / Shareholders Square Table:

My comments re Donald Trump running for President & wanting to nominate me for the Secretary of Treasury — I was extremely surprised to learn that Donald was running for President and even more surprised that he stated he would make me Secretary of Treasury.

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Politico:

What Ten Women Want on the $10 Bill — Hamilton's out, but who should replace him? — Lead image by AP Photo. — We know by now that an American woman will appear on the redesign of the $10 bill, but who will it be? Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew is soliciting recommendations …

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