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8:50 AM ET, July 12, 2017

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New York Times:
Rancor at White House as Russia Story Refuses to Let the Page Turn  —  WASHINGTON — If President Trump emerged from his meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last week hoping he had begun to “move forward” from the controversy over the Kremlin's election meddling, as advisers put it …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘Category 5 hurricane’: White House under siege by Trump Jr.'s Russia revelations  —  The White House has been thrust into chaos after days of ever-worsening revelations about a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a lawyer characterized as representing the Russian government …
New York Post:
Donald Trump Jr. is an idiot  —  We see one truly solid takeaway from the story of the day: Donald Trump Jr. is an idiot.  —  SEE ALSO  —  In the heat of your father's presidential campaign, a bozo British publicist e-mails you to set up a sitdown with a “Russian government attorney” …
Discussion: Reuters and Business Insider
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump-Russia investigators probe Jared Kushner-run digital operation  —  WASHINGTON  —  Investigators at the House and Senate Intelligence committees and the Justice Department are examining whether the Trump campaign's digital operation - overseen by Jared Kushner - helped guide Russia's …
Discussion: Political Wire
Kevin G. Hall / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Lawyer that met Don Jr. had ties to Russian government, spy agency  —  WASHINGTON  —  The Russian lawyer at the center of Donald Trump Jr.'s scandal over possible collusion with Kremlin election meddlers has denied she has ties to the Russian government.  —  But she threatened action …
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
White House aides feeling ‘helpless’ as Trump Jr. scandal blossoms  —  White House aides feel blindsided by the bombshell revelations around Donald Trump Jr.'s campaign meeting with a Russian lawyer, while the president is using his relatively light schedule to watch TV and fume about the latest scandal …
Discussion: ABC News
National Review:
Don Jr.'s Disgraceful Meeting  —  It's been a journalistic season of hype, innuendo, and sometimes flat-out error on the Russia story, but the New York Times finally hit paydirt in the last several days.  —  Over the weekend, the Times revealed that Donald Trump Jr., then-campaign manager Paul Manafort …
Samuel Chamberlain / Fox News:
Donald Trump Jr. tells Sean Hannity: ‘In retrospect I probably would have done things a little differently’  —  Donald Trump Jr. acknowledged in an exclusive interview with Fox News' “Hannity” Tuesday night that he “probably would have done things a little differently” when he met …
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Pro-Trump media scrambles to react to bombshell emails  —  Donald Trump Jr. released emails moments before N.Y. Times report  —  Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of Breitbart London, reacted to the story of Donald J. Trump's newly-released emails in a way that wouldn't typically be expected …
New York Times:
Natalia Veselnitskaya, Lawyer Who Met Trump Jr., Seen as Fearsome Moscow Insider  —  MOSCOW — When American prosecutors accused a senior Russian official's son of laundering $14 million by investing in Manhattan property and other assets, she was called to defend him.
Elizabeth Preza / Raw Story:
President Trump personally signed off on false statement claiming Don Jr.'s meeting was about adoption: report  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  President Donald Trump personally signed off on a statement provided Sunday by Donald Trump Jr., which insisted a meeting between …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump-Russia investigation takes sharp turn toward the dumb  —  Could there a dumber, more obvious come-on than the one Rob Goldstone, described in press reports as a British-born publicist and former tabloid reporter, sent to Donald Trump, Jr. on June 3, 2016?
Michael Crowley / Politico:
Trump Jr.'s love affair with Moscow
Discussion: Mother Jones
New York Times:   Did Donald Jr. Break the Law?
Fox News:
Dershowitz: Did Donald Trump Jr. commit a crime or merely political sin? It depends
Discussion: Althouse
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
A Conspiracy of Dunces
Weekly Standard:
Senate Republicans Eager to Hear From Donald Trump Jr.
Discussion: The Guardian
The Daily Beast:
Trump Aides Freaking Out Over Don Jr.'s Russia Email: The ‘Sum Of All Fears’
Kayleigh McEnany / The Hill:
OPINION | Forget Don Jr.'s email — it's Hillary Clinton who ‘colluded’ with Russia
Walter Shapiro / The Guardian:   Fox News might buy Donald Trump Jr's spin. But Republicans have no excuse
New York Times:
How Key Trump Associates Have Been Linked to Russia
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump Jr. delivers ‘smoking gun’ to Mueller
Paul Owen / The Guardian:
Rob Goldstone to Trump Jr
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Republicans Reluctantly Acknowledge a Failure of Governing  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans are failing at governance.  And they know it.  —  Their senatorially painful decision announced on Tuesday to sacrifice some of lawmakers' usually sacrosanct August recess was a public confession …
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David Nather / Axios:
Still not seeing a health care game changer  —  What did Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell get for the extra two weeks of work on the Senate health care bill?  A revised bill, to be released Thursday morning, that's likely to leave Senate Republicans in about the same place they were before: divided and stuck.
Bloomberg:
Senators Explore Bipartisan ‘Plan B’ to Troubled GOP Health Bill
Discussion: Balloon Juice
ProPublica:
Trump's Russia Lawyer Isn't Seeking Security Clearance, And May Have Trouble Getting One  —  The ongoing investigations into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia involve reams of classified material.  Yet Marc Kasowitz, the New York lawyer whom President Donald Trump …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump v. everyone  —  President Trump increasingly feels (and knows) that he's fighting virtually every force in U.S. and global politics — even those who initially wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt or seem friendly.  — The only people truly on his side are the 40 percent …
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
What Did Hillary Know about Russian Interference?  —  A congressional committee examines the Kremlin's campaign to influence U.S. energy policy.
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:   A Russia collusion story worth pursuing
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
The 6 toughest questions for the next FBI director  —  Christopher Wray faces a stark question from skeptics as he prepares to take on one of the toughest jobs in the Trump administration: Where does your loyalty lie?  —  The cloud of fired FBI Director James Comey will loom large …
Discussion: ABC News
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Associated Press:
Trump Jr. emails are latest development in Russia probes
Discussion: ABC News
New York Daily News:
Hundreds of NYPD cops turn backs to de Blasio in protest as he speaks at funeral for slain Officer Miosotis Familia  —  The police union is back at it with Mayor de Blasio.  —  Several hundred cops turned away in protest Tuesday morning as the mayor delivered his eulogy at the Bronx funeral of slain Officer Miosotis Familia.
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Hackers have been stealing credit card numbers from Trump's hotels for months
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