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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.
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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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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 …
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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 …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump in phone call: “What would happen if I fired Sessions?”
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Betsy Klein / CNN:
Trump slams Sessions, rips DOJ in Twitter outburst
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
The Strange, Slow-Motion Defenestration of Jeff Sessions
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Washington Post:
Trump leaves Sessions twisting in the wind while berating him publicly
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Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Trump and Jeff Sessions ‘need to either get together or separate,’ White House spokesman Anthony Scaramucci says
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Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump's public bullying of Jeff Sessions is embarrassing
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Veronica Stracqualursi / ABC News:
The Note: Trump has sights set on belittling Sessions
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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 — President Donald Trump brought his bombastic politics to a Boy Scouts event Monday in West Virginia, drawing cheers from the children gathered at the event and prompting comparisons between his rousing rhetoric and Nazi youth rallies …
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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
Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Trump's Boy Scouts Speech And The Thin Line Between Openness And Recklessness
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
After Trump's partisan speech, Boy Scouts of America reiterates that it is ‘wholly non-partisan’
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Republicans vote to move ahead on Obamacare repeal — Senate Republicans voted Tuesday voted 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 …
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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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Jack Torry / The Columbus Dispatch:
Portman will vote to proceed on Senate healath-care vote
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CNN:
Republican senators poised to vote today on health care. What you need to know
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
What we know about the Senate health-care vote right now
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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.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Conflicting reports emerge over firing of White House press aide
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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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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Inside the Purge — I mentioned yesterday that Anthony …
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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 …
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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Josh Delk / The Hill:
Ivanka Trump retains defense lawyer for Russia investigation — Ivanka Trump will retain criminal defense lawyer Abbe Lowell to counsel her in the ongoing Russia probe, according to the National Law Journal. — Lowell, an attorney for the D.C.-based firm Norton Rose Fulbright …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Senate panel subpoenas Manafort as campaign aides provide Russia information
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
The sad story of Charlie Gard shows there's no limit to right-wing political vampirism — A dying baby and his parents have been exploited by conservatives who want to strip Americans of health care — The sad story of Charlie Gard, a dying British baby who became a cause célèbre …
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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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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 …
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