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12:30 PM ET, July 13, 2017

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Dana Bash / CNN:
First on CNN: Graham, Cassidy unveil details of alternative health care plan  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)With the prospects for passing the current Senate Republican health care bill still in jeopardy, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, and Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
Republican Senators Left Exposed in Health Care Ad Wars  —  By now, we know that Republicans in the Senate are having a tough time coming to agreement on a health care bill.  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took the drastic step this week of cancelling at least the first two weeks …
Discussion: Reuters and New York Times
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Draft GOP health bill will include Cruz provision  —  A controversial idea championed by Sen. Ted Cruz will be included in today's draft of the GOP health care bill, according to three sources familiar with the bill.  It's similar to the provision Cruz worked on with Sen. Mike Lee …
Sarah Karlin-Smith / Politico:
Senate GOP's new health bill expected to include controversial Cruz amendment
Discussion: IJR
Paige Winfield Cunningham / Washington Post:
The Health 202: Doctors make last-ditch effort to sink GOP health-care bill
Discussion: Mother Jones
Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
McConnell to release new GOP health plan allowing bare-bones insurance policies
Sam Baker / Axios:
Here comes the brand new Senate health bill
Discussion: Politico and Vox
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
New GOP healthcare bill includes version of Cruz amendment
Discussion: RedState
New York Times:   Senate G.O.P. Leaders Unveil Health Care Bill to Try Winning Over Skeptics
Matt Fuller / HuffPost:
Republicans Stare Down Failure On Health Care With No Real Plan B
Reuters:
Highlights of Reuters interview with Trump  —  7 MIN READ  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Here are highlights of the Reuters Oval Office interview with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday.  —  ON WHETHER HE WAS AWARE HIS SON DONALD TRUMP JR. WAS MEETING WITH A RUSSIAN LAWYER  —  “No. That I didn't know.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Conspiracy or Coincidence?  A Timeline Open to Interpretation  —  WASHINGTON — At 6:14 p.m. on June 7, 2016, Donald Trump Jr. clicked the send button on an email to confirm a meeting with a woman described as a “Russian government attorney” who would give him “information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia.”
Rusty Surette / KBTX-TV:
Rep. Flores says President Trump's children should be removed from White House  —  A Republican U.S. Representative from the Brazos Valley believes the President's children should be removed from the White House.  —  Rep. Bill Flores, District 17, made the remarks on Wednesday …
Discussion: Vox and Raw Story
Shane Harris / WSJ:
Russian Officials Overheard Discussing Trump Associates Before Campaign Began  —  U.S. intelligence starting in the spring of 2015 detected conversations in which Russian government officials discussed meetings with Trump associates  —  WASHINGTON—U.S. intelligence agencies starting …
Steve Holland / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump says he was unaware of son's meeting with Russian lawyer
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump's lawyers try to control unruly White House
Discussion: Raw Story
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:   This Time We Liberals Have Totally Got Trump. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
Mark Katkov / NPR:
Justice Department Releases Sessions' Disclosure Form, A Day Late  —  Updated 11 a.m.  —  A day late, the Justice Department complied this morning with a federal court order and released part of a security clearance form dealing with Attorney General Jeff Sessions' contacts with foreign governments.
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Aaron Rupar / ThinkProgress:
Ordered by court to disclose his Russia contacts, Sessions releases blank sheet of paper  —  What's he hiding?  —  In response to a court order directing Attorney General Jeff Sessions to disclose the part of his security clearance form detailing his Russia contacts, the Department of Justice released a mostly blank page of paper.
The Hill:
Exclusive: DOJ let Russian lawyer into US before she met with Trump team  —  The Russian lawyer who penetrated Donald Trump  —  's inner circle was initially cleared into the United States by the Justice Department under “extraordinary circumstances” before she embarked on a lobbying campaign …
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Sheldon Silver's Conviction Is Overturned  —  A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, the once-powerful New York State Assembly speaker who obtained nearly $4 million in illicit payments in return for taking official actions that benefited others …
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Lia Eustachewich / New York Post:   Sheldon Silver's corruption conviction is overturned
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump crafting plan to slash legal immigration  —  Donald Trump and his aides are quietly working with two conservative senators to dramatically scale back legal immigration — a move that would mark a fulfillment of one of the president's biggest campaign promises.
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Congressman Luis Gutierrez:
GUTIÉRREZ WARNS THOSE WITH DACA OR TPS TO PREPARE FOR THE WORST
Maura Dolan / Los Angeles Times:
‘He is a monkey’: Federal appeals court appears doubtful that a monkey who took a selfie can sue  —  An Indonesian macaque named Naruto allegedly grabbed a photographer's camera and snapped a self-portrait in 2011.  (Wikimedia)  —  A federal appeals court appeared highly skeptical Wednesday …
Discussion: Above the Law
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Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian:
Monkey selfie photographer says he's broke: 'I'm thinking of dog walking'
Discussion: Althouse
Shane Savitsky / Axios:
Chuck Todd: “every man and woman for themselves” in Trumpland  —  NBC News' Chuck Todd sat down with Axios' Jim VandeHei at the end of Axios and NBC News' roundtable discussion on the economy to talk about how President Trump's agenda is faring as the Russia scandal threatens to suck all of the air out of Washington.
Discussion: Political Wire
Patrick Wilson / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Corey Stewart to announce run Thursday for Tim Kaine's Senate seat  —  Receive daily news emails sent directly to your email inbox  —  A month after nearly toppling Ed Gillespie in the GOP race for governor with a campaign centered on the Confederate flag and restricting immigration …
Craig Unger / New Republic:
Trump's Russian Laundromat  —  How to use Trump Tower and other luxury high-rises to clean dirty money, run an international crime syndicate, and propel a failed real estate developer into the White House.  —  In 1984, a Russian émigré named David Bogatin went shopping for apartments in New York City.
Discussion: Scripting News
Mick Mulvaney / Wall Street Journal:
Introducing MAGAnomics  —  The Trump agenda for achieving 3% economic growth.  —  If the Trump administration has one overarching goal, it's to Make America Great Again.  But what does this mean?  It means we are promoting MAGAnomics—and that means sustained 3% economic growth.
Discussion: Vox and Business Insider
 
 
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West Wing Reads / The White House:
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Talal Ansari / BuzzFeed:
How A High School Reporter Scored An Interview With The US Secretary Of Defense
Josh Chin / Wall Street Journal:
Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo, Who Fought for Democracy in China, Dies in Police Custody
Discussion: ThinkProgress, CNN and BBC
U.S. Department of Justice:
National Health Care Fraud Takedown Results in Charges Against Over 412 Individuals Responsible …
Discussion: Axios, Washington Post and STAT
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
In France, Trump and Macron Strive to Put Awkward Start Behind Them
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