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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.
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IJR and The Daily Caller
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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,” …
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Business Insider, AOL, New York Magazine, RedState, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, The Week, Political Wire and Weekly Standard


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.”
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Breitbart, Bipartisan Report and IJR
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Newt Gingrich says Trump has a ‘compulsion to counterattack’
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Politico


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.
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The Daily Caller
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Senators wrestle with transparency in healthcare debate
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ThinkProgress, Media Matters for America and Hartford Courant


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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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 …
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Breitbart, Politico, Infowars, Conservative News Today, RedState and The Last Tradition


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 …
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Political Wire
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Georgia special election hurtles toward nail-biting finish
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Washington Post and CNN


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.
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Raw Story


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.”
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The Daily Caller, MichelleMalkin.com, Washington Post, Raw Story and College Republican Federation …

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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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 …


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 …


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.
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New York Times, NPR and The Week


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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Free Speech, The Goose, And The Gander
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New York Times, NPR and Instapundit


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.