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The Daily Beast:
Jeff Sessions Is Growing ‘Pissed’ at Trump, His Allies Say. And He Doesn't Plan to Quit. … Attorney General Jeff Sessions has no plans to leave office as friends say he's grown angry with President Donald Trump following a series of attacks meant to marginalize his power and, potentially, encourage his resignation.
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Won't Say if He Will Fire Sessions — 'I'm very disappointed in Jeff Sessions,' president says in interview — WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump expressed his disappointment in Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday and questioned the importance of Mr. Sessions's early endorsement …
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Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Scaramucci threatens to ‘fire everybody’ to stop White House leaks — President Donald Trump's newly appointed communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, said Tuesday that he is prepared to “fire everybody” in the White House communications shop in order to put an end to embarrassing internal leaks.
Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Cabinet Level Revolt Over Trump's Treatment of Jeff Sessions. “A Clusterf**k” One Secretary Calls It. — “If he can get treated that way, what about the rest of us?” one of the President's Cabinet secretaries asked me with both shock and anger in his voice.
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Adam Shaw / Breitbart:
Trump's Attack on Sessions over Clinton Prosecution Highlights His Own ‘Weak’ Stance — President Trump's decision Tuesday to attack Attorney General Jeff Sessions over Sessions' “position” on Hillary Clinton's various scandals only serves to highlight Trump's own hypocrisy on the issue …
Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Why President Trump suddenly hates his attorney general — The Trump-Sessions feud isn't about personalities. It's about whether the AG should protect him and go after his opponents. — The start of the most serious political crisis of Donald Trump's presidency yet could be playing out right in front of our eyes.
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Lesley Clark / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump messes with Sessions, and Senate Republicans are not pleased
Betsy Klein / CNN:
Trump slams Sessions, rips DOJ in Twitter outburst
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump in phone call: “What would happen if I fired Sessions?”
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Conflicting reports emerge over firing of White House press aide
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Strange, Slow-Motion Defenestration of Jeff Sessions
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans vote to move ahead on Obamacare repeal — Senate Republicans voted Tuesday to open debate on repealing Obamacare, dramatically reviving an effort that many GOP lawmakers left for dead just a few days ago. — The vote is a huge political win and turnaround for Senate Majority …
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Dylan Scott / Vox:
Skinny repeal: the last-ditch idea to save the Senate health care bill — “Skinny repeal” is the latest ploy from GOP leaders. — Sources suggest that Senate Republicans are weighing a last-ditch idea to pass some kind of health care bill in the coming days: a narrowly focused Obamacare repeal bill.
NBC News:
Senate Passes Key Vote to Move Forward on Health Care Bill — WASHINGTON — With Vice President Mike Pence casting a tie-breaking vote, Republicans moved forward on health care reform Tuesday afternoon as the Senate successfully passed a key motion to proceed to debate on the House-passed bill.
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Senate votes to launch debate on revamping Obamacare
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
BREAKING: O'Care Repeal Survives In Senate, But GOP Still Has No Plan
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Is Optimistic Senate Will Vote to Begin Debate on Bill to Repeal Obamacare
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CNN:
Republican senators poised to vote today on health care. What you need to know
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump muses on Sessions, health care at press conference
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Jack Torry / The Columbus Dispatch:
Portman will vote to proceed on Senate healath-care vote
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
What we know about the Senate health-care vote right now
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Senators on hot mic: Trump is ‘crazy,’ 'I'm worried' — At the end of a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday morning, Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) didn't switch off her microphone. Apparently speaking to Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the ranking Democrat of the committee …
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
The 29 most cringe-worthy lines from Donald Trump's hyper-political speech to the Boy Scouts — Washington (CNN)On Monday night, President Donald Trump jetted to West Virginia to address the annual Boy Scout Jamboree. And oh what a speech it was! — Trump ranged from the current health care bill …
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Cristina Silva / Newsweek:
TRUMP BOY SCOUT SPEECH IS NAZI HITLER YOUTH RALLY, LEFT SAYS
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Washington Post:
Trump's Boy Scouts speech broke with 80 years of presidential tradition
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Eric Boehlert / Shareblue:
Angry parents pull their kids from Boy Scouts after Trump's vindictive, creepy speech
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Trump's Boy Scouts Speech And The Thin Line Between Openness And Recklessness
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Judiciary Committee to turn the Russia investigation back on Fusion GPS — On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee is set to finally hold the hearing that was derailed earlier this month by the unfolding scandal over a meeting between top Trump officials and a Russian lawyer.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Senate panel subpoenas Manafort as campaign aides provide Russia information
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Miriam Rozen / National Law Journal:
Ivanka Trump Has ‘Confidential’ Relationship with Kushner Lawyer Abbe Lowell
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Sharon Begley / STAT:
Psychiatry group tells members they can defy ‘Goldwater rule’ and comment on Trump's mental health — leading psychiatry group has told its members they should not feel bound by a longstanding rule against commenting publicly on the mental state of public figures — even the president.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Boehner predicts Republicans will ‘never’ repeal and replace Obamacare — Former House speaker John A. Boehner, who has mostly avoided public commentary since leaving Congress two years ago, told a business gathering last week that Republicans are “not going to repeal and replace Obamacare” …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Says Apple CEO Has Promised to Build Three Manufacturing Plants in U.S. — Apple declined to comment on president's remarks, which didn't include where or when plants would be built — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said in an interview that Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook …
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Ted Barrett / CNN:
Senate won't let Trump make recess appointments — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)Senators are planning to continue procedural moves to prevent the Senate from formally adjourning for recess next month in order to prevent President Donald Trump from making recess appointments …
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Talking Points Memo and Business Insider
Joe Concha / The Hill:
MSNBC finishes first in primetime basic cable for first time ever — MSNBC finished as the most-watched network in all of basic cable in primetime on Monday, for the first time in its 21-year history, according to Nielsen Research. — The Comcast-owned network averaged 2.34 million viewers …
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New York Times:
N.F.L. Brains … Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist, has examined the brains of 202 deceased football players. A broad survey of her findings was published on Tuesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association. — Of the 202 players, 111 of them played in the N.F.L. …
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