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Lewandowski: The President Is Going To Close The Deal On O'care Repeal Today — President Donald Trump's former campaign manager thinks the President will probably “close the deal today” on an Obamacare repeal bill because Trump is “a great dealmaker.” — Appearing on “Fox and Friends” …

Discussion: First Draft, The Gateway Pundit, The Week and New York Times

Alexander C. Kaufman / HuffPost:

Al Gore Calls For Single-Payer Health Care — The former vice president blamed the “morass” surrounding Obamacare passage in 2009 for tanking a cap-and-trade bill that would have curbed pollution. — NEW YORK Al Gore called for single-payer health care on Tuesday, one day after a revolt …

Discussion: Fusion, Common Dreams, Washington Free Beacon, HBR.org and The Atlantic

Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:

Trump calls Mike Lee in attempt to revive Senate healthcare bill — President Trump has reached out to Sen. Mike Lee, the conservative who helped deal what appeared to be a fatal blow to the Senate healthcare bill, as part of a last ditch effort to revive the legislation.

Discussion: Axios and Weekly Standard

Wall Street Journal:

The ObamaCare Republicans — Voters may repeal and replace the Senators who broke their promise. — The Editorial Board — Senate Republicans killed their own health-care bill on Monday evening, and some are quietly expressing relief: The nightmare of a hard decision is finally over …

Discussion: New York Times

Burgess Everett / Politico:
Health care collapse a blow to McConnell

Discussion: Washington Monthly, American Prospect, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Scared Monkeys, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Political Wire, The Week, Vox, ABC News and IJR

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump calls on Senate to end filibuster after healthcare defeat

John Merline / Investor's Business Daily: Democrats Will Soon Regret That Republicans Failed To Repeal ObamaCare

Donald Trump / ABC News:
The Note: Undisclosed Trump-Putin meeting is latest firestorm

Discussion: Axios

People.com:

Inside Trump Family's Turmoil Amid Russia Scandal: Don Jr. Is ‘Miserable’ and Wants ‘These Four Years to Be Over’ — Donald Trump taught his children to fight dirty and win, no matter the cost. Subscribe now for a look at how the ruthless family culture has shaped Don Jr., his siblings, and the Presidency - only in PEOPLE.

Discussion: Vox, CBS Chicago, Raw Story, The Slot, AOL, CBS Los Angeles, The Week and Political Wire

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:

Report: Donald Trump Jr. ‘miserable’ — Jr. is reportedly “miserable” and can't wait for the next four years to end. — A friend of President Trump's sons told People that Trump Jr. and Eric Trump “never wanted this.” — “Don can't do any deals, because he'll be overly scrutinized.

Discussion: Joe.My.God.

Gabriel Schoenfeld / USA Today:
Donald Trump Jr. and the whiff of treason: Morally, he's in deep.

Discussion: Washington Post

Maria Tsvetkova / Reuters:
Russian lawyer who met Trump Jr. says ready to testify to Congress

Discussion: Politico, The Daily Caller and Washington Free Beacon

Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:

GOP Lawmaker Got Direction From Moscow, Took It Back to D.C. … Members of the team of Russians who secured a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner also attempted to stage a show trial of anti-Putin campaigner Bill Browder on Capitol Hill.

Discussion: The Atlantic

Brad Reed / Raw Story: Bombshell report: Kremlin directed GOP congressman to stage pro-Putin ‘show trial’ on the House floor

RT:
Trump Jr. scandal: Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya ready ‘to share everything’ with Senate

Discussion: ABC News

The Hill:

Trump: Voter fraud panel will find ‘full truth’ — President Trump warned of the dangers of voter fraud Wednesday, as he kicked off the first meeting of his voter fraud commission that has so far been mired in controversy. — Speaking to his Commission on Election Integrity …

Discussion: RedState

Jason L. Riley / Wall Street Journal:
The President's Base vs. the Republican Party

Discussion: Vox and NBC News

Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump stokes voter fraud fears as commission convenes

Discussion: ABC News

Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Supporters Have His Back, Poll Finds

Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week

Associated Press:
Trump's voter fraud commission meeting for the first time

Discussion: Axios

Sofi Sinozich / ABC News:

A midterm preference for Democrats, but without anti-Trump motivation (POLL) — A majority of Americans prefer to see the next Congress controlled by the Democrats to counter President Donald Trump rather than the Republicans to support him — but without the level of anti-Trump motivation the opposition party may be banking on.

Discussion: The Week

Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
Poll: Voters Cool on Trump-Russia Meeting, but Resist Impeachment Calls

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Business Insider

Daniel Lippman / Politico:
ANOTHER pivot: tax reform and infrastructure, but Trump needs to BEWARE …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Washington Post:
Ahead of midterms, voters prefer Democrats even as Republicans appear more motivated to vote

Discussion: Washington Times, The Daily Caller, No More Mister Nice Blog and Public Policy Polling

Ezra Klein / Vox:

Trump can't make a health care deal because he doesn't understand health care — Trump is uninformed, underprepared, and unclear — and this is is the result. — The blame in the Senate's health care omnishambles is attaching to Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and understandably so …

Discussion: Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, New York Times, Mediaite, Washington Times, Joe.My.God. and The Hill

New York Times:

How the Senate Health Care Bill Failed: G.O.P. Divisions and a Fed-Up President — WASHINGTON — President Trump was fed up with the grind of health care legislation, and at a dinner with Republican senators on Monday at the White House, he let them know it.

Discussion: The Hill, Talking Points Memo, Vox, Business Insider, AOL, NBC News, Washington Post and Raw Story

Brooke Singman / Fox News:

USPS broke law in allowing workers to boost Clinton campaign, watchdog says — The United States Postal Service violated federal law by letting employees do union-funded work for Hillary Clinton's campaign and other Democratic candidates while on leave from the agency, according to an Office …

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, Conservative News Today, The Gateway Pundit and IJR

Bill Glauber / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Wisconsin letter carrier to testify Wednesday on political campaigning by postal workers

Daily Mail:

Charlie Gard is given legal permanent residence in US by Congress so ‘he can fly to the States for world class treatment’ — Charlie Gard is being given legal and permanent residence in the US by Congress in order to allow him to fly to America for treatment.

Discussion: TheBlaze and Daily Wire

Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Rep: Charlie Gard granted permanent residence status

Discussion: RedState and myfox8.com

Laurie Roberts / Arizona Republic:

Arizona Senate candidate under attack for being Muslim — Laurie Roberts: Responses to Deedra Abboud's Facebook posts have ranged from disturbing to just plain scary. — CONNECT — She's the other challenger to Sen. Jeff Flake. — A native of Little Rock, Ark. A Phoenix attorney and civil rights activist.

Discussion: CNN, Talking Points Memo, ABC News, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, IJR and The Week

Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:

Trump and Putin Held a Second, Undisclosed, Private Meeting — WASHINGTON — The White House acknowledged on Tuesday that President Trump had a second, previously undisclosed, private conversation with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia this month, raising new questions about their relationship …

Washington Post:
Trump had undisclosed hour-long meeting with Putin at G-20 summit

Discussion: Power Line, Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, RT, Infowars, Daily Wire, Shakesville, The Hill, Mediaite, IJR, Talking Points Memo, The Slot, CNN, The Week, AOL, TheBlaze, The Moderate Voice, NBC News, The Atlantic, Joe.My.God. and Washington Free Beacon

McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:

What Congressional Republicans Really Think About Trump and Russia — With each new revelation in the ongoing Trump-Russia saga, the same question inevitably gets asked: Will this be the moment Republicans in Congress finally turn on the president? — The answer, so far, has been an emphatic …

Discussion: Raw Story

Roy Gutman / The Daily Beast:

Turkey Leaks Secret Locations of U.S. Troops in Syria … ISTANBUL—In the latest display of Turkish anger at U.S. policy in Syria, the state news agency has divulged the locations of 10 U.S. military bases and outposts in northern Syria where the U.S. is leading an operation to destroy …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Spencer Ackerman / The Daily Beast:
Revealed: Trump's Still-Secret Plan to ‘Crush’ ISIS

Discussion: Just Security

Vanita Gupta / New York Times:

The Voter Purges Are Coming — The Trump administration's election-integrity commission will have its first meeting on Wednesday to map out how the president will strip the right to vote from millions of Americans. It hasn't gotten off to the strongest start: Its astonishing request …

Discussion: Raw Story, Washington Post and Denver Post

James Poniewozik / New York Times:

Watching ‘Fox & Friends,’ Trump Sees a Two-Way Mirror — The producers of children's TV know the key to holding a distractible audience's attention: interactivity. — Dora the Explorer asks kids to repeat after her ("Swiper, no swiping!"). Mr. Rogers broke the fourth wall to welcome them to his neighborhood.

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon