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3:05 PM ET, July 18, 2017

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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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Wall Street Journal:
The Trumps and the Truth  —  The best defense against future revelations is radical transparency.  —  Even Donald Trump might agree that a major reason he won the 2016 election is because voters couldn't abide Hillary Clinton's legacy of scandal, deception and stonewalling.
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 …
Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:
The Master of ‘Kompromat’ Believed to Be Behind Trump Jr.'s Meeting  —  MOSCOW — The salacious video, of a naked man in bed with two women, was one of the most prominent examples of “kompromat,” the Russian art of spreading damaging information to discredit a rival or an enemy, in recent Russian history.
Los Angeles Times:
A California businessman born in the former Soviet Union also attended Trump Jr. meeting  —  Donald Trump Jr.'s controversial meeting with a Russian lawyer in June 2016 was attended by a California businessman born in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, according to two people familiar with the meeting.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Mediaite and KTLA
Malia Zimmerman / Fox News:
Hillary Clinton sided with Russia on sanctions as Bill made $500G on Moscow speech
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Infowars
Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney:
Fox News' Sean Hannity calls colleague Shep Smith ‘so anti-Trump’
Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump blindsided by implosion of GOP health care bill  —  President Donald Trump convened a strategy session over steak and succotash at the White House with senators Monday night, trying to plot an uphill path to repealing Obamacare and replacing it with a GOP alternative.
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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 …
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
Republicans Aren't Turning on Trump—They're Turning on Each Other  —  The House is mad at the Senate.  The Senate is mad at the House.  Various factions in the House and Senate are mad at each other or mad at their leaders.  —  Republican lawmakers have yet to turn on President Trump in any meaningful way.
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Health Care Overhaul Collapses as Two Republican Senators Defect
Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   WATCH: Mitch McConnell whines about people celebrating the defeat of his unpopular Trumpcare bill
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Old Truth Trips Up G.O.P. on Health Law: A Benefit Is Hard to Retract
Discussion: Shareblue, Political Wire and NBC News
Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
GOP health care bill collapses
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: After Senate bill falls apart, Republicans don't have the votes to repeal Obamacare
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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Bloomberg:
Paul Ryan's Approval Suffers as Republican Agenda Stalls  —  Americans also increasingly disapprove of other Republicans  —  Dramatic turn for House speaker seen as rising GOP Star  —  It would be hard to find a Republican who has suffered more than House Speaker Paul Ryan as Congress …
Discussion: Political Wire
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House GOP unveils budget plan that attaches major spending cuts to coming tax overhaul bill  —  House Republicans unveiled a 2018 budget plan Tuesday that would pave the way for ambitious tax reform legislation — but only alongside a package of politically sensitive spending cuts that threaten …
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Chris Jacobs / USA Today:   What killed Senate health care bill? Liberal Medicaid alarmism
Niv Elis / The Hill:
Conservative caucus withholding support from Republican budget
Discussion: RedState
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 …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Recertifies Iran Nuclear Deal, but Only Reluctantly  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump agreed on Monday to certify again that Iran is complying with an international nuclear agreement that he has strongly criticized, but only after hours of arguing with his top national security advisers …
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 …
Discussion: Axios and WPRI-TV
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
As Party Drifts Left, Pragmatic Democratic Governors Have Eye on White House
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Morning Consult:
Governor Approval Rankings Q2 2017 Methodology
Discussion: National Review
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.
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Campaign Conceded in a Memo That Comey Was Having Major Impact … Donald Trump's presidential campaign acknowledged in an internal memo that former FBI Director James Comey's 11th hour decision to reopen an inquiry into Hillary Clinton's use of private email helped shift the results.
Discussion: Mother Jones
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Dallas Morning News:
Let's outline Trump's achievements during his first six months in office
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael Rothfeld / Wall Street Journal:
New York Seeks Bank Records of Former Trump Associate Paul Manafort  —  Loans issued by a bank run by former campaign adviser Steve Calk are focus of subpoena  —  New York prosecutors have demanded records relating to up to $16 million in loans that a bank run by a former campaign adviser …
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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Tim Starks / Politico:
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