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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 …
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
The standoff between Trump and Sessions escalates … The public standoff between the White House and the nation's senior law enforcement official took another strange turn Tuesday as President Trump escalated his verbal attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was urged by fellow conservatives to stand his ground.
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.
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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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 …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Eyes Tax-Code Overhaul, With Emphasis on Middle-Class Break
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Washington Post:
This is not okay — WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP attacked Attorney …
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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Press aide resigns as White House purge begins: 'I'm going to fire everybody,' says Scaramucci
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Lesley Clark / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump messes with Sessions, and Senate Republicans are not pleased
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.
Tara Golshan / Vox:
Trump says the motion to proceed means Obamacare repeal is in “good shape.” Not so fast. — President Donald Trump is optimistic on health care. — The Senate voted to move to debate on some version of a health bill Tuesday afternoon, and as far as Trump is concerned, “once you get that motion …
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
BREAKING: O'Care Repeal Survives In Senate, But GOP Still Has No Plan
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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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New York Times:
Trump Finds Reason for the U.S. to Remain in Afghanistan: Minerals — WASHINGTON — President Trump, searching for a reason to keep the United States in Afghanistan after 16 years of war, has latched on to a prospect that tantalized previous administrations: Afghanistan's vast mineral wealth …
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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Eric Boehlert / Shareblue:
Angry parents pull their kids from Boy Scouts after Trump's vindictive, creepy speech
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CNN:
North Korea promises nuclear strike on US if regime is threatened — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — The US intelligence community assesses that North Korea has accelerated its intercontinental ballistic missile program — Washington (CNN)North Korea threatened a nuclear strike on “the heart of the US” …
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
North Korea could cross ICBM threshold next year, U.S. officials warn in new assessment
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Co-founder of firm tied to Trump dossier agrees to speak to Senate panel — The co-founder of the firm tied to the controversial opposition research dossier on President Trump has agreed to speak to the Senate Judiciary Committee behind closed doors, the top lawmakers on the panel said Tuesday.
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Judiciary Committee to turn the Russia investigation back on Fusion GPS
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Senate panel subpoenas Manafort as campaign aides provide Russia information
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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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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
How Jared Kushner Helped the Russians Get Inside Access to the Trump Campaign — If you read Jared Kushner's statement to congressional committees looking for evidence of a crime, there isn't much there. But if you read it from the perspective of the Russians trying to gain a toehold …
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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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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
House passes Russia sanctions bill, setting up veto dilemma for Trump — The House on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to advance new financial sanctions against key U.S. adversaries and deliver a foreign-policy brushback to President Trump by limiting his ability to waive many of them.
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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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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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