memeorandum: Trump: 'I just don't want a poor person' in top economic roles (Rebecca Savransky/The Hill)

1:30 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

Caitlin Owens / Axios:

The conservative health care problem — Even before the Senate health care bill is released, conservatives already want to amend it. Sen. Ted Cruz may try to amend the bill to let insurers sell health plans that don't comply with Affordable Care Act rules — but Majority Leader Mitch McConnell …

Discussion: ABC News, Politico and FiveThirtyEight

Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:

The Note: Trump's ‘poor’ choice of words raises eyebrows — WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY — Time to show their work: Senate Republicans share their health care draft this morning after negotiating it behind closed doors. The bill is expected to roll back Medicaid expansions but more gradually …

Discussion: Politico and Associated Press

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

CNN:
Senate finally unveils secret health care bill

Discussion: Mother Jones, Refinery29, TheBlaze, The Hill, Joe.My.God., The Daily Caller and Politicus USA

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

Discussion: ThinkProgress, STAT, Mediaite, The Week and KTLA

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Here comes the Senate GOP's health bill. It's a cruel and cynical shell game.

Discussion: CNBC, Washington Examiner, The Atlantic, Balloon Juice, Daily Kos and New York Times

Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
Senate health-care draft repeals Obamacare taxes, provides bigger subsidies for low-income Americans than House bill

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

Discussion: 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, Media Matters for America, The FADER, JustOneMinute, Hit & Run, Right Wing Watch, Fusion and Daily Kos

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

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

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

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The Week, Rasmussen Reports, Bloomberg Government and Axios

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 Free Beacon, NBC News and The Week

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, Mediaite and Raw Story

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:

Gingrich: Trump was trying to ‘rattle’ Comey with tapes claim — Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said he thinks President Trump was trying to “rattle” former FBI Director James Comey by suggesting there might be recordings of their conversations. — “I think he was, in his way …

Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and The Gateway Pundit

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

Discussion: RedState

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

CNN:

Some House Democrats says it's time for Pelosi to go — (CNN)A small group of House Democrats are publicly saying it's time for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to step aside as the face of the party ahead of the 2018 midterms following Tuesday night's disappointing loss in a special election for a Georgia House seat.

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

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

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

Discussion: Axios and CNBC

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

Philip Wegmann / Washington Examiner:
Jon Ossoff spent six times more than Karen Handel but complains about ‘money in politics’

Discussion: NPR.org, TheBlaze, Hot Air, Althouse, IJR and Daily Wire

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.

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Trump: 'I just don't want a poor person' in top economic roles

Discussion: Daily Wire

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

Discussion: Political Wire and Washington Free Beacon

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

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.

Discussion: 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, Daily Mail and CBS Sacramento

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

Discussion: Clayton Cramer

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

Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Hugh Hewitt to Host Show on MSNBC

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

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

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.