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5:40 PM ET, June 29, 2017

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Trump tweets shocking assault on Brzezinski, Scarborough  —  Trump attacks ‘Morning Joe’ hosts on Twitter  —  Even by President Trump's standards, these tweets were shocking.  —  On Thursday morning, while MSNBC's “Morning Joe” was on the air, Trump posted a pair of hateful tweets about co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
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The Hill:
White House offers unapologetic defense of Trump tweets  —  The White House offered an unapologetic defense Thursday of President Trump's tweets attacking MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski during a contentious televised press briefing.  —  Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders was grilled …
Discussion: RedState and ABC News
The Daily Beast:
Trump Attacks ‘Crazy’ Mika Brzezinski: She Was ‘Bleeding Badly From a Face-Lift’ … President Trump launched a cruel personal attack on MSNBC's Morning Joe co-hosts and love birds Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on Thursday morning, rather than deal with his health-care bill seemingly on death's door.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Trump Mocks Mika Brzezinski; Says She Was ‘Bleeding Badly From a Face-lift’  —  President Trump on Thursday assailed the television host Mika Brzezinski in unusually personal and vulgar terms, the latest of a string of escalating attacks by the president on the national news media.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
NBC exec: ‘Beneath my dignity’ to respond to Trump attacks on Mika Brzezinski
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘Out of his mind’: MSNBC's Mika unloads on Trump and his ‘lobotomized’ staffers over Tillerson reports
Discussion: Politicus USA and The Daily Banter
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Breaking: MSNBC and Greta Van Susteren Agree to Part Ways  —  In an era where liberal anger is driving ratings, the former Fox anchor's show never caught fire.  —  “Remember me?”  Greta Van Susteren crooned to the camera as she raised the curtain on her new MSNBC show on January 9.  “I'm baaack.”
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Greta Van Susteren out at MSNBC after six months  —  Greta Van Susteren is leaving MSNBC only six months after her show debuted on the cable news network.  —  “I am out at MSNBC,” she tweeted Thursday.  —  Her pithy social media announcement landed at virtually the same moment Vanity Fair reported the news.
Dylan Scott / Vox:
Ted Cruz has a big idea that just might unlock a Senate health care deal  —  Here's how it works.  —  An amendment is under consideration that maybe, just maybe, could unlock the whole Senate Republican health bill.  It might knock over the dominoes necessary for a deal, starting with regulations …
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
It turns out the liberal caricature of conservatism is correct  —  It's depressing.  But it's true.  —  Marc Thiessen, the George W. Bush speechwriter who now writes a column for the Washington Post op-ed page, is aghast at the Senate GOP's health care bill.
Discussion: bradford-delong.com and Bloomberg
Sarah Karlin-Smith / Politico:
Senate GOP likely to miss Friday deadline on Obamacare repeal
Discussion: Axios and Daily Kos
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
GOP senator: Don't expect Trump to ‘have your back’ on healthcare vote
Discussion: Axios, Politico and Washington Post
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
What we know about Senate health care bill 2.0
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Pence to Replace His Chief of Staff  —  WASHINGTON — Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff will depart the White House in the coming weeks and will be replaced by a long-serving aide, in the first major staff change of his office, officials said on Thursday.
Van Jones / CNN:
Much ado about nothing (burger)  —  Reporter fires back on ‘fake news’ attack  — Jones says he thinks it's unlikely Trump will be forced from office over the Russia investigation but that doesn't mean he thinks there's nothing there  —  CNN political commentator Van Jones is president …
Nancy Coleman / CNN:
Army vet beaten to death after saving two teens  —  (CNN)A 62-year-old veteran died saving a pair of teenagers from a brutal attack, and now he's being hailed as a hero.  —  James Farmer Jr. was asleep in his car in downtown Denver on June 16 when he woke up to a homeless man attacking the two teens.
Discussion: The Root
Julian Borger / The Guardian:
White House could offer to roll back sanctions in first Trump-Putin meeting  —  G20 meeting of two presidents could see Russia regain access to diplomatic compounds blocked after interference in 2016 US election, say former officials … Donald Trump has told White House aides to come …
Cecilia Vega / ABC News:
House Russia probe eyes longtime Trump bodyguard-turned-White House aide Keith Schiller  —  Congressional investigators now want to interview Keith Schiller, President Donald Trump's longtime bodyguard-turned-White House aide, as part of their investigation into Russian interference …
Natasha Bertrand / Business Insider:
A chilling National Rifle Association ad gaining traction online appears to be ‘an open call to violence’  —  A National Rifle Association ad that has gained traction on social media this month urges Americans to join “freedom's safest place” as protesters and members of the “resistance” …
Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
CBO: Medicaid spending falls 35 percent in 20 years under Senate health bill  —  The federal government would spend 35 percent less on Medicaid in two decades if the Senate Obamacare repeal bill becomes law, according to a CBO analysis requested by Democrats critical of the legislation.
Discussion: The Week
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Erica Martinson / Alaska Dispatch News:
Murkowski, Collins plan amendment to strip Planned Parenthood provision from Senate health bill
Discussion: The Atlantic and TheBlaze
Robert Parry / Consortiumnews.com:
NYT Finally Retracts Russia-gate Canard  —  Exclusive: A founding Russia-gate myth is that all 17 U.S. intelligence agencies agreed that Russia hacked into and distributed Democratic emails, a falsehood that The New York Times has belatedly retracted, reports Robert Parry.
Matt Stevens / New York Times:
A Stunt Turns Deadly for a Couple Seeking YouTube Fame  —  Over the past several weeks, Monalisa Perez of Halstad, Minn., and her boyfriend, Pedro Ruiz III, began their quest for YouTube fame by creating and posting videos of mostly harmless pranks: Mr. Ruiz climbing onto a tenuous tree branch …
Discussion: WDAY-TV
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WLOS-TV:
Caught on camera: Man chased, struck by SUV in Walmart parking lot; man and driver charged  —  A pregnant woman tells News 13 she chased a man and hit him with her SUV in a Walmart parking lot after she says he attempted to steal her purse.  —  It happened around 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the Walmart on Bleachery Boulevard.
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Trump's Obama Obsession  —  Donald Trump has a thing about Barack Obama.  Trump is obsessed with Obama.  Obama haunts Trump's dreams.  One of Trump's primary motivators is the absolute erasure of Obama — were it possible — not only from the political landscape but also from the history books.
Discussion: Politicus USA and Raw Story
AP Story / Associated Press:
Bridges takes chilled approach in heated political rhetoric … Jeff Bridges played a president in “The Contender,” a political flick released nearly two decades ago in the wake of President Bill Clinton's White House scandals.  —  But when it comes to critiquing the role of today's real-life president …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump rips media, mocks Pelosi at closed-door fundraiser  —  President Donald Trump, facing dimming approval ratings and a stalled legislative agenda, rolled out his greatest hits on Wednesday evening - ripping into CNN, assailing House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and hailing his party's string of special election wins.
Ann Coulter / Official:
EVEN TRUMP CAN'T MAKE GOLDMAN SACHS POPULAR  —  Having pulled off the monumental achievement of getting elected with zero help from Wall Street, President Trump is at risk of throwing it all away.  He seems to be turning his White House over not only to liberal Democrats …
Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Trump's voter fraud commission is ‘laying the groundwork for voter suppression’  —  Vice chair Kris Kobach plans to use Kansas' disastrous voter purge as a national model.  —  By Kira Lerner and Joshua Eaton  —  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach confirmed in a letter Thursday …
Fox News:
Attorney General Sessions: Congress must pass Kate's Law and make America safer  —  Two years ago this week, a young woman named Kate Steinle was murdered in cold blood—shot in the back as she walked with her father on a tourist pier in San Francisco.  —  The man charged with her murder …
Timothy Bella / Esquire:
'It's Amazing I Haven't Ruined Myself'  —  ONCE REVERED AS ONE OF THE GREATEST HEROES IN RED SOX HISTORY, TODAY CURT SCHILLING IS KNOWN AS MUCH FOR OFFENSIVE MEMES AS FOR HIS BLOODY SOCK.  IS HIS GOAL TO DOMINATE RIGHT-WING MEDIA—OR TO WIN A SPOT IN THE SENATE?
Discussion: The Week
Nikhil Sonnad / Quartz:
All the “wellness” products Americans love to buy are sold on both Infowars and Goop  —  There are two Americas, we've been told.  —  There's Duck Dynasty America and Modern Family America.  There's “gosh” America and “dope” America.  Sometimes, though, Americans unite around a common idea.
Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story and The Week
 
 
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Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
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Louis Nelson / Politico:
U.S. sanctions Chinese bank for allegedly helping North Korea
Discussion: ABC News and IJR
Nicholas Johnston / Axios:
U.S. to run out of cash in October
Discussion: Politico and CBO's Publications
Jeremy Roebuck / Philly.com:
Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams pleads guilty in his federal corruption trial
USA Today:
Poll: How are we feeling about Washington? Try ‘alarmed’ and ‘uneasy’
Scott Wise / WTVR-TV:
Police arrest man who burned American flag hanging from Richmond home
Discussion: FOX2now.com and IJR
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Sarah Karlin-Smith / Politico:
Critics pan opioid cash designed to deliver moderates
Discussion: The Hill, Daily Kos and IJR
Joe Concha / The Hill:
OPINION: Will the media learn from CNN's mistakes? Prepare to be disappointed
Austin Wright / Politico:
Grassley goes after acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe
New York Times:
Cuomo Declares a State of Emergency for New York City Subways
Discussion: The Verge
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Tillerson blows up at top White House aide
 

 
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