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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.
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This is not okay — WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a tweet Tuesday for not aggressively investigating Hillary Clinton, most attention focused, understandably, on the implications for Mr. Sessions. Yet even more alarming than the president's assault …
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Republicans warn Trump: Don't fire Jeff Sessions — Congressional Republicans on Tuesday warned President Trump not to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions, fearing it could be the first step in an attempt to kill the federal investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 elections.
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Jeff Sessions won't take Trump's hint — Attorney General Jeff Sessions doesn't plan to take the hint. President Trump continues hitting him in all body parts — apparently hoping he'll resign, which could pave the way for firing special counsel Bob Mueller.
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Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Won't Say if He Will Fire Sessions
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Sophia Tesfaye / Salon:
Breitbart, conservatives, are ready to go to the mat for Jeff Sessions — and turn on Donald Trump
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The Daily Beast:
Jeff Sessions Is Growing ‘Pissed’ at Trump, His Allies Say. And He Doesn't Plan to Quit.
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Sessions planning to announce leak investigations: report
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
There Is No End to the Lies — Republican senators vowed not to consider Obamacare repeal without a satisfactory replacement, and yet, that is exactly what they're doing now. — The reckless Republican decision to begin a chaotic Senate floor fight over the future of health care in America …
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New York Times:
Senate Votes Down Broad Obamacare Repeal — WASHINGTON — The Senate voted narrowly on Tuesday to begin debate on a bill to repeal major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, but hours later, Republican leaders suffered a setback when their most comprehensive plan to replace President Barack …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Senate Republicans still face narrow path to pass health-care bill after procedural victory — (Oliver Contreras For The Washington Post) — THE BIG IDEA: Mitch McConnell is like a quarterback who has just converted on fourth and long. The Senate majority leader kept …
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
First GOP health care bill fails, with many more votes to come
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New York Times:
The Senate's Health Care Travesty
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Stepan Kravchenko / Bloomberg:
Russia Warns of ‘Painful’ Response If Trump Backs U.S. Sanctions — U.S. measures leave no room for better relations, Ryabkov says — Russia readying economic, political retaliation, senator says — Russia threatened to retaliate against new sanctions passed by the U.S. House of Representatives …
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
To America, It Looks Like Chaos. For Trump, It's Just Tuesday. — It started Monday morning with Donald Trump calling his own attorney general “beleaguered.” It continued with an Air Force One flight to West Virginia and a rambling, partisan speech to thousands of hollering Boy Scouts.
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Timothy Gardner / Reuters:
U.S. energy secretary duped into fake interview with Russian comedians — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry optimistically discussed expanding American coal exports to Ukraine and other energy matters during a lengthy phone call this month with a Russian prankster who Perry thought was Ukraine's prime minister.
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Cleve R. Wootson Jr / Washington Post:
Rick Perry thought he was talking to a world leader about pig manure. It was a prank call.
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Many Republicans Doubt Clinton Won Popular Vote — A plurality of Republicans say President Donald Trump received more of the popular vote in 2016 than his Democratic rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. — According to a new Morning Consult/POLITICO poll …
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Paul Beckett / Wall Street Journal:
Transcript: Donald Trump's Interview With The Wall Street Journal — Wall Street Journal editors and reporters interviewed President Donald Trump on Tuesday at the White House. The 45-minute interview took place in the Oval Office. Here are excerpts from the conversation.
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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 …
William Cummings / USA Today:
Sec. of State Tillerson ‘taking a little time off’ but not resigning — 1.6k Shares — Rex Tillerson has no plans to resign as Secretary of State and is “just taking a little time off,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Tuesday amid reports Tillerson was considering stepping down.
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Salena Zito / New York Post:
Why the Rust Belt just gave Donald Trump a hero's welcome — Donald and Melania Trump in Youngstown, Ohio. — MORE FROM: … YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO — This town was on fire. — By 1 in the afternoon on Tuesday every main thoroughfare in downtown Youngstown was filled with happy people heading towards the Covelli Centre.
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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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Katie Rogers / New York Times:
A Hot Microphone Catches Senate Gossip, but No Duel Transpires
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Wasserman Schultz aide arrested trying to leave the country — Imran Awan, a House staffer at the center of a criminal investigation potentially impacting dozens of Democratic lawmakers, has been arrested on bank fraud and is prevented from leaving the country while the charges are pending.
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Michael Lewis / Vanity Fair:
Why the Scariest Nuclear Threat May Be Coming from Inside the White House — Donald Trump's secretary of energy, Rick Perry, once campaigned to abolish the $30 billion agency that he now runs, which oversees everything from our nuclear arsenal to the electrical grid. The department's budget is now on the chopping block.
John Solomon / The Hill:
Newly declassified memos detail extent of improper Obama-era NSA spying — The National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation violated specific civil liberty protections during the Obama years by improperly searching and disseminating raw intelligence on Americans or failing …
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