memeorandum: The Untold Story of How Gary Cohn Fell for Donald Trump (William D. Cohan/Vanity Fair)

9:35 AM ET, June 25, 2017

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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:

Senate health-care bill faces serious resistance from GOP moderates — A small group of moderate Republican senators, worried that their leaders' health-care bill could damage the nation's social safety net, may pose at least as significant an obstacle to the measure's passage as their colleagues on the right.

Discussion: The Week, Balkinization and New York Times

Jordan Rau / New York Times:

Medicaid Cuts May Force Retirees Out of Nursing Homes — ORANGE, Va. — Alice Jacobs, 90, once owned a factory and horses. She has raised four children and buried two husbands. — But years in an assisted living center drained her savings, and now she relies on Medicaid to pay for her care …

Discussion: Fusion

United States Senator Mike Lee:
The Missing Ingredient in BCRA: Humility

Discussion: CNN, RedState and Weekly Standard

Kerry Picket / The Daily Caller:

Grassley: Schumer Knew Trump Was Not Under Investigation When He Publicly Claimed Otherwise [VIDEO] — Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley called out Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer Thursday for lying when the New York Democrat claimed that President Donald Trump was under investigation and Schumer knew otherwise.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Power Line

Mark Berman / Washington Post:

Schumer: ‘Unseemly’ to confirm Gorsuch amid FBI probe of Trump campaign — While Judge Neil Gorsuch answered questions during his confirmation hearings, the Senate's top Democrat on Tuesday questioned whether he should be confirmed at all amid an FBI investigation into President Trump's campaign.

Ariane de Vogue / CNN:
Anthony Kennedy retirement watch at a fever pitch

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Associated Press, The Hill, RedState, Political Wire and The Week

James Hohmann / Washington Post:

Koch network withholding support of Senate health-care bill, pushing for changes — COLORADO SPRINGS — The Koch network is working with conservative allies behind the scenes to make changes to the Senate health-care bill that was unveiled this week, declining to endorse the measure as it stands.

Discussion: Political Wire

Kevin Robillard / Politico:

Koch network ramps up political spending while trying to push Trump team — COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The leadership of the Koch brothers' network is brushing off its occasionally chilly attitude toward President Donald Trump, trying to nudge the administration in its direction …

Discussion: ABC News

Michael Hechtman / New York Post:

100-year-old crime boss beats the odds, is released from prison — John “Sonny” Franzese in 1966 (left) and 2010 (right). … Geriatric gangster John “Sonny” Franzese — the oldest guest of the federal prison system — is a free man at the age of 100. — The Colombo family underboss …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:

The Untold Story of How Gary Cohn Fell for Donald Trump — As Goldman Sachs's long-suffering No 2., Cohn approached his board about his future. He didn't get the answer he wanted. And then Jared Kushner swooped in. This is how Goldman Sachs took over the White House.

Discussion: Axios

John Hayward / Breitbart:

Islamic State Poster Shows Car Crushing Skulls: ‘Run Over Them Without Mercy’ — A pro-Islamic State media operation called the Nashir News Agency published a poster calling for more vehicular jihad in the last few days of the Ramadan holiday season, depicting an SUV driving across a mountain …

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Business Insider:

Evidence is mounting that Russia took 4 clear paths to meddle in the US election — It was September 2015 when the FBI first noticed that Russian hackers had infiltrated a computer system belonging to the Democratic National Committee. — It was the first sign that Moscow was attempting to meddle in the presidential election.

New York Times:

Why Grenfell Tower Burned: Regulators Put Cost Before Safety — LONDON — The doorbell woke Yassin Adam just before 1 a.m. A neighbor was frantically alerting others on the fourth floor of Grenfell Tower about a fire in his apartment. “My fridge blew up,” the man shouted.

Jeff Brady / NPR:
Some U.S. States Relax Restrictions On Cladding Suspected In Grenfell Tower Fire

Discussion: Gizmodo and The Atlantic

Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:

In Health Care Attacks, Democrats Risk Inciting Further Violence — Democrats have settled on a grisly theme in their attacks on the Republicans' new legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare: death. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tweeted on Thursday: “I've read the Republican ‘health care’ bill.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, TheBlaze, AOL, Talking Points Memo, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, USA Today, IJR, Washington Free Beacon, SARAH PALIN and Politicus USA

CBS Philly: Hillary Clinton: GOP Is ‘Death Party’ If Health Care Bill Passes

Brad Wilmouth / newsbusters.org/feed/all:

On CNN, Montel Williams: GOP Would Send 140 Million to ‘Death’ With Health Plan — As Montel Williams appeared on Friday's CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin to discuss his recent USA Today article attacking Republican plans to repeal ObamaCare, the former talk show host accused congressional Republicans …

Discussion: Daily Kos

Scott Schwebke / Orange County Register:

Man believed dead is alive - family buries wrong person after mix-up — “Your son is alive.” — Frank J. Kerrigan, 82, couldn't believe what he was hearing. It was May 23, at night, and he clutched the phone at his home in Wildomar. — On the line was Bill Shinker, a long-time family friend.

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation:

Premiums and Tax Credits under the Affordable Care Act vs. the Senate Better Care Reconciliation Act: Interactive Maps — This map compares county-level projections of premiums and tax credits for marketplace enrollees under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2020 with estimates …

Discussion: Balkinization