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4:20 PM ET, July 23, 2017

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Eli Watkins / CNN:

Scaramucci: Trump still doesn't accept intelligence conclusion on Russia — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)Newly minted White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci said on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday that President Donald Trump still does not accept …

Discussion: RedState, Little Green Footballs, Vox, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Common Dreams, Business Insider, NBC News, The Daily Caller, The Guardian, Washington Free Beacon, Trump On Media, Politicus USA, Liberal Values, The Hill and AOL

Fox News:

Scaramucci vows to take ‘drastic action’ to stop White House leaks — Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director, said Sunday that stopping damaging West Wing leaks is a top priority and that he will take “drastic action” to achieve that goal.

Discussion: Political Wire

Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:

Scaramucci wrote ‘America deserves better’ than ‘unbridled demagoguery’ in early 2016 op-ed aimed at Trump — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — “Unbridled demagoguery has driven the GOP to an inflection point from which there is no turning back,” Scaramucci wrote in January 2016.

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Adam Peck / ThinkProgress:

Seconds after quoting an anonymous source, Anthony Scaramucci admits the source was Donald Trump — The White House's new communications director just threw his boss under the bus. — Anthony Scaramucci has been on the job for less than 72 hours, and on Sunday he made his first appearance …

Discussion: Mediaite and TheBlaze

Julia Manchester / The Hill:

Scaramucci promises ‘dramatic action’ to stop White House leaks — New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci pledged Sunday “to take drastic” action to stop leaks coming out of the White House. — “I will take dramatic action to stop those leaks,” Scaramucci told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.”

Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week

Peter Baker / New York Times:

White House Signals Acceptance of Russia Sanctions Bill — WASHINGTON — The White House indicated on Sunday that President Trump would accept new legislation imposing sanctions on Russia and curtailing his authority to lift them on his own, a striking turnaround after a broad revolt in Congress …

Discussion: The Hill, The Daily Caller, Axios and Political Wire

Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Scaramucci: New White House communications strategy needed

Discussion: Axios and The Daily Caller

Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:
Read Anthony Scaramucci's old tweets. You'll understand why he deleted them.

Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:

Trump had ‘The Art of the Deal.’ Now Democrats say their economic agenda is ‘A Better Deal.’ — Completely sapped of power in Washington, top leaders of the Democratic Party now believe that the best way to fight a president who penned “The Art of the Deal” is with an economic agenda that they plan to call “A Better Deal.”

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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Schumer: Democrats were ‘namby-pamby’

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller and The Week

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Dems to announce ‘A better deal’ economic agenda on Monday: report

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon

Streiff / RedState:

Jay Sekulow: Pardons Are Not On the Table, Sorta — Trump attorney, Jay Sekulow, was on ABC's This Week and George Stephanopoulos raised the issue of pardons: — TRANSCRIPT … If you read this carefully, Sekulow's long disclaimer follows this, “George, we have not, and continue to have not …

David Edwards / Raw Story:
Scaramucci makes liar out of Trump lawyer: I talked pardons ‘in the Oval Office with the president last week’

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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 7-23-17: Jay Sekulow, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Sen. Chuck Schumer

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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump lawyer: Pardons are not being discussed

Discussion: The Week

Glenn Thrush / New York Times:

Trump's ‘Great National Infrastructure Program’? Stalled — WASHINGTON — As a candidate, President Trump billed himself as a new breed of think-big Republican, pitching a $1 trillion campaign pledge to reconstruct the nation's roadways, waterworks and bridges — along with a promise to revive the lost art of the bipartisan deal.

Discussion: Political Wire

Ken Meyer / Mediaite:

Glenn Beck Dishes on Tomi Lahren: 'I Would've Fired Her the Day I Met Her' — During a conversation with Mediaite columnist John Ziegler, Glenn Beck offered some harsh words and significant insight into Tomi Lahren's departure from TheBlaze. Not the least significant detail was that Beck …

Discussion: IJR

Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Glenn Beck Slams ‘Fraud’ Conservative Hosts on ‘Easy’ Decision to Reject Trump: 'I'm Principle-Driven'

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Charles Sykes / The Contrarian Conservative:

What Trump Is Doing To The Conservative Character — Curious minds want to know: how would conservatives react if Donald Trump fired special prosecutor Robert Mueller? If he issued sweeping pardons of his family members and cronies, or even himself? — Would that cross a red line …

Discussion: RedState

Zack Stanton / Politico:

Senator Kid Rock. Don't Laugh. — As you're reading this, odds are a Democratic operative in Michigan or Washington, D.C., is listening to Kid Rock's gravelly voice—rapping, shrieking or crowing, depending on the song—and meticulously cataloguing every single offensive syllable.

Associated Press:

Fukushima: robot images show massive deposits thought to be melted nuclear fuel — Robot spots suspected debris of melted fuel for first time since 2011 earthquake and tsunami destroyed the plant — Images captured by an underwater robot on Saturday showed massive deposits believed …

Discussion: Common Dreams