memeorandum: MSNBC Gives Conservative Radio Host Hugh Hewitt a Show (Jeremy Barr/Hollywood Reporter)

1:10 PM ET, June 22, 2017

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Brian Beutler / New Republic:

The Media Bias Toward “New” News Helped the GOP Hide Its Secret Health Care Plan — Until a modest breakthrough this week, supporters of the Affordable Care Act had spent the month of June desperately trying to make issue of the Senate Republicans' secret plan to take health insurance away from millions of Americans.

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Washington Post

Sean Moran / Breitbart:

Senate Releases Healthcare Bill — Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the draft for the Senate's healthcare reform bill Thursday. — The Senate's bill features more generous tax credits for low-income and older Americans, a slower rollback of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, and repeals most of Obamacare's taxes.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Week, Politicus USA and Daily Kos

Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:

Senate health-care draft repeals Obamacare taxes, provides bigger subsidies for low-income Americans than House bill — Senate leaders on Wednesday were putting the final touches on legislation that would reshape a big piece of the U.S. health-care system by dramatically rolling back Medicaid …

Discussion: Hit & Run, Politico, ThinkProgress, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times, Talking Points Memo, Fusion, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Business Insider, New York Magazine, The Week, Gizmodo, ACASignups.net, Politicus USA, The Guardian, Raw Story, The Last Tradition, Balloon Juice and The Atlantic

David Nather / Axios:
The Senate health bill is out. Here's your speed read

Discussion: STAT, Mediaite, The Week and KTLA

Russell Berman / The Atlantic: What's In the Senate Republican Health-Care Bill

Bloomberg:
Senate GOP Health Bill to Break With House on Key Points

Discussion: Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, No More Mister Nice Blog and Daily Kos

New York Times:
Senate Leaders Unveil Bill to Repeal the Affordable Care Act

Discussion: USA Today, The FADER, JustOneMinute, Hit & Run, Right Wing Watch, Fusion and Daily Kos

Bloomberg: Senate Health Plan Draft Relies on Subsidies GOP Has Faulted

Caitlin Owens / Axios:
The conservative health care problem

Discussion: Politico, ABC News and FiveThirtyEight

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
The Senate version of Trumpcare may phase out Medicaid — entirely

Discussion: The Week, Rasmussen Reports, Bloomberg Government and Axios

CNN:
Senate finally unveils secret health care bill

Discussion: Refinery29, TheBlaze, Joe.My.God., The Hill and Politicus USA

Jordan Weissmann / Slate:
How Mitch McConnell weaponized our short attention span.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Washington Post and Daily Kos

Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
The Health 202: Here's what's in the Senate health-care bill

Discussion: Washington Examiner, The Atlantic, Balloon Juice, NBC News, New York Magazine, The Week and New York Times

Travis Gettys / Raw Story:

WATCH: Morning Joe panel slams ‘dear leader’ Trump with horrifying 2-minute mashup of his Iowa lies — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — A “Morning Joe” panel examined President Donald Trump's lie-filled rally in Iowa, where his supporters cheered each falsehood and jeered when he attacked the media.

Discussion: Washington Times

Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump's ‘poor’ choice of words raises eyebrows

Discussion: Politico and Associated Press

Cristina Marcos / The Hill: Pelosi defends leadership after special election losses

Tara Golshan / Vox:
After 4 special election losses, panic is setting in on the left

Discussion: Axios and CNBC

Daniel Nussbaum / Breitbart:
Cher Turns on Nancy Pelosi After Ossoff Loss

CNN:
Some House Democrats says it's time for Pelosi to go

Discussion: Politico, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, The Hill, NBC News, IrishCentral and Washington Post

CNN:

Intel chiefs tell investigators Trump suggested they refute collusion with Russians — Coats and Rogers said interactions with Trump about the Russia investigation were odd, uncomfortable — (CNN)Two of the nation's top intelligence officials told Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team …

Discussion: Vox, New York Magazine, RedState, Business Insider, Bipartisan Report, The Daily Caller, Shakesville, Talking Points Memo, Axios, Raw Story, The Week, Politicus USA, Daily Kos, Joe.My.God., The Hill, Political Wire and Washington Times

Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Gingrich: Mueller's Trump investigation will be a ‘personal vendetta’

Discussion: RedState

Bloomberg:

Trump Said to Not Have Recordings of Conversations With Comey — President Donald Trump doesn't have recordings of his conversations with then-FBI Director James Comey, according to a person familiar with the matter, capping weeks of speculation about whether such tapes exist.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Axios and Mediaite

Associated Press:
Trump's tease of possible Comey tapes fits familiar pattern

Discussion: Politico

BBC:

Exploding cream dispenser kills French fitness blogger — A well-known lifestyle blogger in France has been killed by an exploding whipped cream dispenser. — Rebecca Burger's death was announced on Facebook in what her family called a “domestic accident”.

Discussion: Fox News, NBC News, WTVR-TV, KTLA, KFOR-TV, Fox 59, The Daily Caller, Boing Boing and WPMT FOX43

Amber Ferguson / Washington Post:
Whipped cream dispenser explodes, killing French Instagram fitness model

Discussion: The Guardian

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

Hugh Hewitt to Host Show on MSNBC — MSNBC is expanding weekend news with live programming until 9 p.m. ET Saturday and Sunday nights, TVNewser has learned. — As part of the expansion, conservative radio talk show host and MSNBC contributor Hugh Hewitt is getting a half hour show, airing Saturdays at 8 a.m. ET.

Discussion: Media Matters for America, Mediaite and Joe.My.God., more at Mediagazer »

Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:

MSNBC Gives Conservative Radio Host Hugh Hewitt a Show — The commentator is joining MSNBC's Saturday morning lineup, a move that is sure to raise eyebrows at the network and among the network's left-leaning fans. — MSNBC, which has been soaring lately in both ratings and in advertising prices …

Discussion: Media Matters for America and Washington Free Beacon

New York Times:

Kamala Harris Was Silenced. Then She Silenced Us. — Last week, Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat from California, made headlines when Republican senators interrupted her at a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee while she interrogated Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:

Trump Turns an Iowa Rally Into a Venting Session — CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — President Trump said on Wednesday that he was crafting legislation to bar new immigrants from receiving welfare for at least five years. He announced the proposal in a conquering-hero-returns speech in Iowa …

Discussion: CBS News, New York Magazine, Daily Kos, The Week, The New Civil Rights Movement, Mediaite, AOL and Joe.My.God.

Graham Russell / The Guardian:
Trump says he doesn't want a ‘poor person’ handling economy

Discussion: Political Wire and Washington Free Beacon

Robert Fife / Globe and Mail:

Canadian elite special forces sniper makes record-breaking kill shot in Iraq — OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF — The Globe and Mail (includes correction) — A sniper with Canada's elite special forces in Iraq has shattered the world record for the longest confirmed kill shot in military history at a staggering distance of 3,540 metres.

Discussion: Business Insider, AOL, CBS Sacramento and Daily Mail

Matthew Diebel / USA Today:
Report says Canadian sniper has shattered world record for the longest confirmed kill in history

Discussion: Clayton Cramer

Pew Research Center:

America's Complex Relationship With Guns — An in-depth look at the attitudes and experiences of U.S. adults — As a nation, the U.S. has a deep and enduring connection to guns. Integrated into the fabric of American society since the country's earliest days, guns remain a point of pride for many Americans.

Discussion: Politico, New York Times, NBC News and NPR

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

A Cyberattack 'the World Isn't Ready For' — NEWARK — There have been times over the last two months when Golan Ben-Oni has felt like a voice in the wilderness. — On April 29, someone hit his employer, IDT Corporation, with two cyberweapons that had been stolen from the National Security Agency.

Alan Pyke / ThinkProgress:

D.C. cops used ‘rape as punishment’ after Inauguration Day mass arrests, lawsuit says — Wide array of unconstitutional tactics alleged in suit over chilling round-up that hit peaceful protesters, journalists, and anarchists alike. — When black-clad marchers began smashing windows in Washington …

Discussion: Raw Story

John Kass / Chicago Tribune:

Column: What to do with a broken Illinois: Dissolve the Land of Lincoln — Illinois is like Venezuela now, a fiscally broken state that has lost its will to live, although for the moment, we still have enough toilet paper. — But before we run out of the essentials, let's finally admit …

Discussion: Shot in the Dark