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6:45 PM ET, July 18, 2017

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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump calls on Senate to end filibuster after healthcare defeat  —  President Trump on Tuesday called on the Senate to end the legislative filibuster after the collapse of the Republican healthcare plan.  —  “The Senate must go to a 51 vote majority instead of current 60 votes.
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
‘Plan C’ on Obamacare, Repeal Now and Replace Later, Has Collapsed  —  WASHINGTON — With their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act in tatters, Senate leaders on Tuesday pushed to vote on a different measure that would repeal major parts of President Barack Obama's health law without …
David Faris / The Week:
Why the GOP Congress will be the most unproductive in 164 years
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Daily Wire
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   WATCH: Mitch McConnell whines about people celebrating the defeat of his unpopular Trumpcare bill
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
A Republican Party at war with itself hits the wall on health care
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Stan Collender / Forbes:
The GOP's Arrogance Was Thinking That 52 Votes Is A Majority
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
Senate health care attempt may not be dead yet
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senators pushed Trump to the sidelines. He happily stayed there. Republicans are paying the price.
Discussion: Business Insider
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Eighth person in Trump Tower meeting is identified  —  An American-based employee of a Russian real estate company took part in a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Russian lawyer and Donald Trump Jr., bringing to eight the number of known participants at the session that has emerged …
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Pamela Brown / CNN:
First on CNN: Special Counsel investigators seeking info from ‘eighth man’ at Trump Tower meeting  —  Washington (CNN)Special counsel investigators are seeking information from the still-publicly unidentified eighth person who attended the June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower …
The Daily Beast:
Donald Trump Jr. Met Russian Accused of Laundering $1.4 Billion … An accused Russian money launderer representing a Kremlin-friendly oligarch has been reportedly identified as the eighth person at a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. last June.  —  Irakly Kaveladze was a guest …
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:   The Master of ‘Kompromat’ Believed to Be Behind Trump Jr.'s Meeting
New York Times:   Guest List at Trump Jr.'s Meeting With Russian Expands Again
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Sanders, Fox reporter exchange jabs over off-camera briefings  —  Fox News reporter John Roberts roasted President Trump spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday over the White House's refusal to allow television coverage of its daily press briefings.  —  When Roberts, the network's …
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Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Fox News' Sean Hannity calls colleague Shep Smith ‘so anti-Trump’  —  Is the chief news anchor at Fox News anti-Trump?  Sean Hannity thinks so.  —  Speaking on his radio show Monday afternoon with White House official Sebastian Gorka, Hannity said Shepard Smith was “a friend,” but someone who was no fan of President Donald Trump.
Justin Baragona / Mediaite:
Shep Drops ‘Journalist’ Card in Response to Hannity: ‘Sometimes Facts Are Displeasing’
Discussion: @politifact and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump and Putin had a previously undisclosed hour-long meeting at the Group of 20 summit in Germany  —  The second meeting, unreported at the time, took place at a dinner for G20 leaders, a senior administration official said.  Halfway through the meal, President Trump left his seat to occupy …
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump, Putin had second, undisclosed talk at G-20  —  President Trump held a second, informal talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Group of 20 (G-20) summit in Hamburg, Germany, earlier this month, according to Tuesday reports.  —  The White House confirmed with CNN …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Health Care a Mine Field for Republicans; Many Trump Voters in Denial on Russia  —  PPP's newest national poll continues to find that health care is a mine field for the GOP, while most Trump voters are just choosing not to acknowledge the Russia story.  —  Only 20% of voters support …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Voters Don't See Pence As A Trump Replacement
James Kirchick / Politico:
How the GOP Became the Party of Putin
Marina Fang / HuffPost:
Steve Bannon Reportedly Attacked Paul Ryan As ‘A Limp-D**k Motherf**ker’  —  What?  —  Steve Bannon reportedly called House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) “a limp-dick motherf**ker who was born in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation,” referring to the think tank whose fiscal conservative policies the representative espouses.
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John McCormick / Bloomberg:
Finally, a Poll Trump Will Like: Clinton Is Even More Unpopular  —  Views on Democratic nominee harden since exit from spotlight  —  Obama now as popular as he was in first year in White House  —  For a president with historically low poll numbers, Donald Trump can at least find solace in this: Hillary Clinton is doing worse.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Poll: Clinton more unpopular than Trump
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KHQ-TV:
17-year-old Spokane girl pulls gun on home intruder on the run from Spokane County deputies  —  A 17-year-old north Spokane County girl protected herself and her home with her dad's gun when a suspected car thief on the run from Spokane County deputies came into her house Monday morning.
Whitney Downard / Meridian Star:
Court testimony: Father killed child after failed math lesson, soiled pants  —  Meridian police told the city court Monday that a failed math lesson and soiled pants led to the beating death of a 3-year-old child over the weekend.  —  Meridian Police Detective Kevin Boyd told the court …
Discussion: The Clarion Ledger and Raw Story
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Tom Williams / Associated Press:
Meridian man accused of killing child
Discussion: The Root and IJR
Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
America's Most and Least Popular Governors — July 2017  —  Never miss the latest political data and news from Morning Consult.  Subscribe to Morning Consult's Washington email brief here.  —  Familiar faces remain affixed the top and bottom of the new Morning Consult Governor Approval Rankings …
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:
Trump Just Came Very Close to Killing the Iran Deal  —  At the last minute, the president nearly told Tillerson not to certify Iranian compliance.  —  Under President Barack Obama this kind of thing was routine.  Since the Iran nuclear deal was reached in 2015, every few months …
Ben Strauss / Politico:
Is the President Fit?  —  Few props have been more indispensable to Donald Trump's presidency than the golf cart.  He drives them on his frequent weekend trips to the links (invariably at Trump-owned clubs, where he rolls onto the greens, too—normally a no-no).
 
 
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Trump's voter commission is now facing at least 7 federal lawsuits
New York Times:
How Trump Is Stealthily Carrying Out His Muslim Ban
Rebecca Kheel / The Hill:
Top general: Transgender delay due to ‘disagreement on the science’
Discussion: RedState and TheBlaze
Jesse Paul / Denver Post:
Thousands of Democrats, hundreds of Republicans among Coloradans who canceled their registrations …
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Planned Parenthood Suing State Over Abortion Laws
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Dem donors buzzing about Kamala Harris
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House GOP unveils budget plan that attaches major spending cuts to coming tax overhaul bill
Damian Paletta / Washington Post:
Steven Mnuchin, Trump's treasury secretary, is hurtling toward his first fiasco
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