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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.

Discussion: Washington Post, Business Insider, neo-neocon, Raw Story, Politicus USA, The American Conservative, IJR, Mediaite and Above the Law

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 …

Discussion: Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, NPR, Daily Wire, CNBC, Daily Kos, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, IJR, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit and Political Wire

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.

Discussion: Vox, CNNMoney, Talking Points Memo, Breitbart, RedState, IJR, CNBC, Daily Kos, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, TheBlaze, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Axios, New York Magazine, Washington Post, Washington Times and The Week, more at Mediagazer »

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.

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and Washington Monthly

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.

Discussion: Politico, DCReport.org, New York Times, IJR and The Guardian

Lesley Clark / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump messes with Sessions, and Senate Republicans are not pleased

Discussion: CNNMoney, Talking Points Memo, Washington Post, The Daily Signal, WWAY-TV, Business Insider, Vox, ThinkProgress, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Above the Law, Politico, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Axios

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House press aide resigns amid shakeup

Discussion: IJR

Betsy Klein / CNN:
Trump slams Sessions, rips DOJ in Twitter outburst

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Conflicting reports emerge over firing of White House press aide

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and IJR

David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Strange, Slow-Motion Defenestration of Jeff Sessions

Discussion: ABC News, Shareblue, Washington Post and Fox News Insider

Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump in phone call: “What would happen if I fired Sessions?”

Discussion: Washington Times, RedState, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller and Shakesville

Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Press aide resigns as White House purge begins: 'I'm going to fire everybody,' says Scaramucci

Discussion: The Guardian and Politico, more at Mediagazer »

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 …

Discussion: Vox, Axios, ABC News, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, The Atlantic, Scared Monkeys, Hullabaloo and Mother Jones

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.

Discussion: Politico, New York Magazine, ThinkProgress, New York Times, Axios, Politicus USA, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, Daily Wire, Mother Jones, The Week, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Talking Points Memo

NBC News:
Senate Passes Key Vote to Move Forward on Health Care Bill

Discussion: Hit & Run, CNBC, ThinkProgress, Washington Free Beacon, NBC News, Jezebel, New York Times and Talking Points Memo

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

Discussion: Washington Post and The Daily Caller

CNN:
Republican senators poised to vote today on health care. What you need to know

Discussion: Vox, CBS New York, Media Matters for America, Washington Free Beacon, Axios, Business Insider and Washington Times

Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump muses on Sessions, health care at press conference

Discussion: The Atlantic, Vox, ABC News and Axios

Jack Torry / The Columbus Dispatch:
Portman will vote to proceed on Senate healath-care vote

Discussion: The Hill, RedState and Talking Points Memo

Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:
Senate votes to launch debate on revamping Obamacare

Discussion: CBS News, Lawyers, Guns & Money, TheBlaze, NBC News, Daily Wire, Reuters, Raw Story, TheStreet, Mother Jones, IJR and The Guardian

Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
What we know about the Senate health-care vote right now

Discussion: JustOneMinute and RedState

New York Times:
Pence Breaks Tie as Senate Votes to Begin Debating Obamacare Repeal

Discussion: The Atlantic, USA Today, Outside the Beltway, NPR and Refinery29

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 …

Discussion: Dallas Morning News, Mother Jones, Conservative News Today, CNBC, IJR, Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit, Refinery29, Hullabaloo, The Daily Caller, BuzzFeed, AOL, Politicus USA, Business Insider and The Week

Niv Elis / The Hill:
Senators mock Trump on hot mic

Discussion: RedState

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 …

Cristina Silva / Newsweek:
TRUMP BOY SCOUT SPEECH IS NAZI HITLER YOUTH RALLY, LEFT SAYS

Discussion: Power Line, Washington Post, Instapundit, Common Dreams, Daily Wire, Washington Free Beacon, CNN and IJR

Washington Post:
Trump's Boy Scouts speech broke with 80 years of presidential tradition

Discussion: The Rush Limbaugh Show, ThinkProgress, IJR, Daily Kos, vice, Shakesville, PEN America, Mashable, Jezebel and The Week

BBC:
Trump boy scout Jamboree speech angers parents

Discussion: NPR, HuffPost, New York Magazine, Breitbart, Mother Jones, New York Times, Friendly Atheist, Daily Wire, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Raw Story, IJR and Business Insider

Eric Boehlert / Shareblue:
Angry parents pull their kids from Boy Scouts after Trump's vindictive, creepy speech

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Times, Raw Story, Vox and RedState

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 …

Discussion: Weekly Standard and CNN

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

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Times, The Hill, ABC News, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, The Root, The Week and Axios

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.

Discussion: NPR, The Verge, The Atlantic, Common Dreams, Althouse, IJR and Talking Points Memo

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:

North Korea could cross ICBM threshold next year, U.S. officials warn in new assessment … North Korea will be able to field a reliable, nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile as early as next year, U.S. officials have concluded in a confidential assessment that dramatically shrinks …

Discussion: The Hill, Axios, Mashable, AOL, vice, The Daily Caller and The Diplomat

CNN:
North Korea promises nuclear strike on US if regime is threatened

Discussion: Washington Post

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” …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Politico, The Resurgent, IJR, ABC News, Business Insider, Axios and Daily Wire

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 …

Discussion: Axios, Reuters, Engadget, CNBC, The Verge, Business Insider, Mashable and 9to5Mac, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

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. …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, JAMA Current Issue and CNN