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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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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: Washington Monthly
Lesley Clark / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Trump messes with Sessions, and Senate Republicans are not pleased  —  President Donald Trump is getting a bitter Washington lesson when he messes with Jeff Sessions - you don't pick a fight with one of the Senate's guys.  —  It's a lesson that could cost him politically in a Senate …
Washington Post:
Trump leaves Sessions twisting in the wind while berating him publicly  —  President Trump and his advisers are privately discussing the possibility of replacing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and some confidants are floating prospects who could take his place were he to resign or be fired, according to people familiar with the talks.
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 …
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 …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump in phone call: “What would happen if I fired Sessions?”  —  President Trump, in one of his hallmark rituals, recently called a longtime political associate and asked out of the blue: “What would happen if I fired Sessions?”  — Trump has been openly undermining Attorney General Jeff Sessions …
Betsy Klein / CNN:
Trump slams Sessions, rips DOJ in Twitter outburst
Washington Post:
Trump's Boy Scouts speech broke with 80 years of presidential tradition
Julia Marsh / New York Post:
Ex-Jets player sues Jeff Sessions to legalize marijuana
BBC:
Trump boy scout Jamboree speech angers parents
Associated Press:
AP sources: Trump speaks to advisers about firing Sessions
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.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Conflicting reports emerge over firing of White House press aide  —  Conflicting reports emerged Tuesday over whether a White House press aide had been fired, with the staffer himself saying that no one had informed him he had lost his position.  —  “No one has told me anything …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Inside the Purge  —  I mentioned yesterday that Anthony …
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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Samantha Schmidt / Washington Post:
Rep. Farenthold of Texas says he would challenge female GOP senators to a duel — if they were South Texas men
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” …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Obamacare repeal vote still too close to call  —  Senate Republicans neared a dramatic vote Tuesday to start dismantling Obamacare claiming that momentum is on their side — but not sure they actually have the votes.  —  At stake are not just the seven-year-old campaign pledge to repeal Obamacare …
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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.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Senate panel subpoenas Manafort as campaign aides provide Russia information  —  A Senate committee said Tuesday it sent Paul Manafort a subpoena compelling his testimony in its Russia probe, even as he and Jared Kushner were providing information to other congressional investigators …
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Josh Delk / The Hill:
Ivanka Trump retains defense lawyer for Russia investigation
Discussion: Shareblue
New York Times:   Manafort Talks With Senate Investigators About June 2016 Meeting With Russians
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 Daily Caller
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
The Korean Games of Thrones
Discussion: CNBC
Bloomberg:
Scaramucci Seeks Federal Tax Break on SkyBridge Sale  —  Agreement to sell firm came before he joined administration  —  Ex-government ethics chief says deal probably doesn't qualify  —  Anthony Scaramucci wants to put off a tax bill that could reach millions of dollars on the pending sale …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump White House Tests a Nation's Capacity for Outrage  —  GLEN JEAN, W.Va. — Remember that time President George W. Bush told his attorney general to investigate Al Gore for his “crimes”?  Or President Barack Obama called for a Justice Department prosecution of John McCain?
NBC Universal:
MSNBC MOST WATCHED OF ALL CABLE NETWORKS IN WEEKDAY PRIME FOR 1ST TIME IN NETWORK HISTORY  —  MSNBC Was Also #1 from 7pm to Midnight in Total Viewers for All of Cable for the Week  —  For the first time in the network's 21-year history, MSNBC finished the week as the most-watched cable …
CNN:
Videos suggest Russian government may be arming Taliban  — Two videos obtained by CNN suggest the Taliban have received improved weaponry supplied by the Russian government  — Russia's Foreign Ministry declined to comment but has previously called claims they are arming the Taliban “utterly false”
Josh Delk / The Hill:
US Navy ship fires warning shot at armed Iranian vessel in Persian Gulf  —  A U.S. Navy ship in the Persian Gulf fired warning shots on Tuesday at an armed Iranian patrol boat, which did not respond to the warnings, U.S. defense officials told CNN.  —  Officials believed the Iranian vessel …
Discussion: CNN and IJR
EurekAlert!:
What do Trump's tweets say about his personality?  —  Researchers analyze tweets of Donald J. Trump and compare his personality traits with other influential business leaders  —  The Twitter messages of Donald J. Trump, the entrepreneurial businessman turned US president, show that he is creative …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Ted Barrett / CNN:
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Matthew Diebel / USA Today:
Petition calls for Confederate monument to be replaced by statue of Snooty the manatee
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
How Obamacare saved Detroit
Newsday:
President Trump coming to LI to discuss MS-13, Rep. King says
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Wall Street Journal:
More U.S. Cars Are Being Made in Mexico
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
IMGE breaks from IJR
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Sean Hannity asked people to bash Jake Tapper on Twitter. Most did just the opposite.
David Brooks / New York Times:
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Scaramucci says it's ‘probably’ correct Trump wants Sessions gone
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