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6:50 PM ET, June 18, 2017

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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Axios Sneak Peek  —  Happy Father's Day, and welcome to Sneak Peek, our weekly lookahead for both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.  I'd love your tips and feedback: jonathan@axios.com.  And please urge your friends and colleagues to join the conversation by signing up for Sneak Peek.
Discussion: IJR and The Daily Caller
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Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
Trump Attorney: The President Is Not Under Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — An attorney for President Trump was adamant on Sunday that the president is not under investigation, despite the president's tweets this week referring to one as a “witch hunt.”  —  “Let me be clear here,” …
CBS News:
Transcript: Jay Sekulow on “Face the Nation,” June 18, 2017
Associated Press:
Trump attorney says president not under investigation
Discussion: ABC News and Axios
John Amato / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Newt Gingrich Responds To MSNBC's Joe Scarborough By Calling Him ‘A Prostitute’  —  Trump super surrogate Newt Gingrich responded to a tweet fight he had with Joe Scarborough over his flip-flopping on once very positive views of Bob Mueller as Special Counsel by calling the MSNBC host “a prostitute.”
Discussion: Breitbart, Bipartisan Report and IJR
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Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Newt Gingrich says Trump has a ‘compulsion to counterattack’
Discussion: Politico
ABC News:
Book excerpt: Newt Gingrich's ‘Understanding Trump’
Discussion: Raw Story
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
New ads target 5 GOP senators on healthcare  —  A group opposed to the GOP's efforts to repeal and replace ObamaCare is set to a launch a $1.5 million ad campaign on Monday urging five key Republican senators to vote against the chamber's expected healthcare bill.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Associated Press:
GOP senator warns against rushed vote on health care bill
Discussion: Axios
Bruce Bialosky / Townhall.com:
The Winners Are the Russians  —  You set off to invade and disrupt the election process of a global competitor.  Your desire is to weaken the other's government.  Except for potentially being responsible for leaking emails obtained from political operatives of one party …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate GOP shifts focus to Lynch  —  Senate Republicans are clamoring to hear from Loretta Lynch after former FBI Director James Comey raised concerns about her involvement in the Hillary Clinton  —  email investigation.  —  Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are seizing …
New York Times:
High-Stakes Referendum on Trump Takes Shape in a Georgia Special Election  —  ATLANTA — Taking the stage in a half-filled airplane hangar to rally supporters of Republican candidate Karen Handel, Health Secretary Tom Price could not help but point to the record-shattering surge of liberal money …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Georgia special election hurtles toward nail-biting finish
Discussion: Washington Post and CNN
Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed:
The Man Who Secretly Taped Planned Parenthood Could Be Going To Prison — Alongside His Criminal Lawyers  —  Last month, David Daleiden and his criminal defense lawyers released additional footage of abortion providers and the names of 14 of his accusers, possibly violating court injunctions and seals.
Discussion: Raw Story
Emily Jashinsky / Washington Examiner:
Caitlyn Jenner on congressional baseball tragedy: 'Liberals can't even shoot straight'  —  Asked during a discussion at the College Republican National Committee's convention to comment on the violent attack on a GOP baseball practice earlier in the week, Caitlyn Jenner quipped, “Liberals can't even shoot straight.”
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Notes on a Political Shooting  —  THE first thing to say about the attempted massacre of congressional Republicans on a baseball field in suburban Virginia is that the motivations of the shooter were unusual.  By which I mean that, based on what we know, James Hodgkinson had surprisingly normal political beliefs.
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Derek Hunter / Townhall.com:
Liberals Got Their Blood, Will It Be Enough?
Discussion: Fox News
Artemis Moshtaghian / CNN:
Iran launches missiles into eastern Syria, targets ISIS  —  (CNN)Iran's military announced on Sunday that it launched several missiles into Syria, targeting Islamic State fighters in retaliation for the attacks in Tehran on June 7.  —  The missile strikes are the first reported ground …
New York Times:
How Michael Flynn's Disdain for Limits Led to a Legal Quagmire  —  WASHINGTON — Michael T. Flynn was a man seething and thwarted.  In the summer of 2014, after repeatedly clashing with other Obama administration officials over his management of the Defense Intelligence Agency …
CNN:
Portugal wildfire: 61 killed, victims burned in cars as they fled  —  Photos:  —  Wildfire rages through central Portugal  —  A massive wildfire is reflected in a stream in central Portugal on Sunday, June 18, 2017.  Several hundred firefighters fought the blaze, which broke out Saturday in the municipality of Pedrogao Grande.
Discussion: New York Times, NPR and The Week
Thomas Healy / The Atlantic:
Who's Afraid of Free Speech?  —  Middlebury College's decision to discipline 67 students who participated in a raucous and violent demonstration against conservative author Charles Murray brings closure to one of several disturbing incidents that took place on college campuses this semester.
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Ken White / Popehat:
Free Speech, The Goose, And The Gander
Discussion: New York Times, NPR and Instapundit
Kali Holloway / Salon:
White kids are bullying minority students using Trump's words  —  This is Trump's America: kids are mimicking the president in rhetoric and action  —  Donald Trump's real campaign promise was that he would give whites back the power they imagined they'd lost.
 
 
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New York Daily News:
Ground Zero recovery worker from Queens targeted by immigration authorities for deportation
Discussion: Fusion and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
In Georgia House Race, Parties Battle for New Swing Voters
Discussion: The Daily Caller
CBS News:
Transcript: Sen. Marco Rubio on “Face the Nation,” June 18, 2017
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Week
BBC:
Mosul battle: Iraqi forces attack IS-held Old City
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Charles J. Sykes / New York Times:
The Danger of Ignoring Alex Jones
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Mike McIntire / New York Times:
Russia Renewed Unused Trump Trademarks in 2016
 Earlier Items: 
Yashar Ali / HuffPost:
Unedited Putin Interview Reveals A Missed Opportunity For Megyn Kelly and America
Discussion: Breitbart, Hullabaloo and Mediaite
John Bowden / The Hill:
ICE chief doubles down: Undocumented immigrants ‘should be concerned’
Megan Cerullo / New York Daily News:
Ex-politician admits he groped 103-year-old mother-in-law's breasts
Discussion: Fusion and Raw Story
Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Poll of rural Americans shows deep cultural divide with urban centers
Discussion: Axios
Chris Tomlinson / Breitbart:
Swedish Police Attacked By 100 Masked Migrant Youths
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
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