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NBC News:
Former Soviet Counter Intelligence Officer at Meeting With Donald Trump Jr. and Russian Lawyer — WASHINGTON — The Russian lawyer who met with the Trump team after a promise of compromising material on Hillary Clinton was accompanied by a Russian-American lobbyist — a former Soviet counter …
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The Daily Beast:
Trump Team Met Russian Accused of International Hacking Conspiracy … The alleged former Soviet intelligence officer who attended the now-infamous meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and other top campaign officials last June was previously accused in federal and state courts of orchestrating an international hacking conspiracy.
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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Just Six Days After Trump Jr.'s Meeting, Guccifer 2.0 Emailed Me — But There Was One Key Difference — After 39 years of operating without an apparent conceptual understanding of “consequences,” this week Donald Trump Jr. tweeted out an email thread admitting to soliciting the help …
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CNN:
Trump Tower Russia meeting: At least eight people in the room — CNN Special Report “The First Son: The Life of Donald Trump Jr.” airs Friday at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT. — Washington (CNN)The June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort included at least eight people.
Rolf Mowatt-Larssen / Washington Post:
Trump Jr.'s Russia meeting sure sounds like a Russian intelligence operation — Rolf Mowatt-Larssen is the director of the Intelligence and Defense Project at Harvard's Belfer Center. He served for three years as director of intelligence and counterintelligence at the Department of Energy …
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Grace Wyler / BuzzFeed:
Trump Blamed Loretta Lynch For Letting A Russian Lawyer Into The US. Here's How She Actually Got In. — Natalia Veselnitskaya was issued a visa in June 2016 — the same month that she met with top advisers of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. — In the days before her June 2016 meeting …
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New York Times and Shakesville
Jack O'Donnell / Vox:
Trump put family first when I worked for him. It was disastrous. — Trump Jr. is another case. — “If it's what you say I love it,” Donald Trump Jr. wrote in an email last summer to an English publicist who offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton, provided by the Russian government.
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump to Hire Lawyer Ty Cobb to Respond to Russia Probes
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Washington Post:
Russian American lobbyist was present at Trump Jr.'s meeting with Kremlin-connected lawyer
CNN:
WH aides exposed to scrutiny over Russia meeting response
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Lynch distances herself from Russian lawyer after Trump attack
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Associated Press:
Analysis: Trump will take health care credit or cast blame — If congressional Republicans succeed in repealing and replacing “Obamacare,” expect a big Rose Garden celebration with President Donald Trump taking credit. — If they fail? Trump has already indicated he will hold Senate …
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Trump says he wants victories — but he isn't selling the GOP agenda to voters
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Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
Nevada governor undecided on health bill, will meet with Pence
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Axios and The Nevada Independent
Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Watch never-ending handshake between Trump and Macron — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's saga of awkward handshakes continues. — On Friday, right before he left France, Trump said goodbye to France's President Emmanuel Macron, with the two grabbing and holding hands for a long, long handshake.
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Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
A 39-year-old man is mysteriously still a ‘kid’ — All children, except two, grow up: Peter Pan and Donald Trump Jr. — “He's a good boy,” President Trump said of his scandal-engulfed son, in remarks that started off the record and then became on the record, apparently because he liked them so much.
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CNN:
London acid attacks: 5 victims assaulted in 70 minutes — London (CNN)Five men were attacked with acid in London on Thursday night with one man suffering life-changing facial injuries in what police are treating as linked assaults. — The five attacks, which took place over 70 minutes …
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Wall Street Journal:
Startup That Got a Seat at White House Roundtable Is Part-Owned by Kushner Family — Venture-capital firm run by Kushner's brother partly owns OpenGov, whose CEO last month attended summit with Donald Trump, leaders of Apple, Amazon, Microsoft — Prominent technology-industry leaders …
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Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
Jamie Dimon blows up at DC's dysfunction, says he's tired of ‘listening to the stupid s—’ — On the bank's earnings call, CEO Jamie Dimon answered a question about his view on Washington's impact on the economy. — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon expressed frustration …
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The Gateway Pundit, Axios and Political Wire
Lisa Boothe / Washington Examiner:
Spare me your Donald Jr. indignation … Politics is war. The objective is to win and take down the opponent. In an industry that does not operate in the black and white, it is often the grey territory in which campaigns work to achieve their goal. — In the middle of this fast-paced environment …
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CBS News:
George W. Bush: Bill Clinton is a “brother with a different mother” — Former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton shared a stage Thursday night at a leadership summit in Dallas to share what they've learned in their days before, during and after the presidency.
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The Daily Caller
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Foreign Policy:
Private Email of Top U.S. Russia Intelligence Official Hacked — As concerns about cyberattacks grow, hackers are going after Russia wonks. — On Tuesday morning, a hacker going by the name Johnnie Walker sent a group email to an unknown number of recipients claiming to have a trove …
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Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate:
The Wasted Mind of Ben Sasse — The Nebraska senator has urgent, persuasive ideas for saving American politics. Why won't he act on them? — Ben Sasse is not OK with Donald Trump's tweets. On June 29, the president began yet another day by barfing out insults on Twitter, this time regarding MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski's face.
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The Atlantic and No More Mister Nice Blog
Vox:
Even the intellectual left is drawn to conspiracy theories about the right. Resist them. — How not to write about “radical” libertarians. — It's always hard in politics for people to take their opponents' views seriously, but it has become ever harder in Trump's America.
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EconLog and Cafe Hayek
Tracy Wilkinson / Associated Press:
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, in a rare and candid moment, talks about the frustrations of his job — His boss contradicts him. Sometimes sends him off to clean up messes. Makes him explain controversial policies. — When you have been chief executive of one of the largest companies on the planet …
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Jennifer Scholtes / Politico:
House Republicans weigh massive partisan spending bill — House GOP leaders will decide next week whether to brave an ugly floor fight over a massive GOP spending bill — a proposal applauded by some rank-and-file Republicans but that risks embarrassment if it fails.
Washington Post:
Americans want to help the homeless — as long as they don't get too close. This explains why. — In the spring, voters in Los Angeles decided to raise their own sales taxes to alleviate homelessness. Other large American cities — including not just Los Angeles, but also Seattle and Portland …
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