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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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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
A Trump Tower of Absolute Folly — Donald Trump's campaign against his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, in which he is seemingly attempting to insult and humiliate and tweet-shame Sessions into resignation, is an insanely stupid exercise. It is a multitiered tower of political idiocy …
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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
Trump and Sessions locked in silent battle — Donald Trump is playing an elaborate game of chicken with Jeff Sessions. And they are not on speaking terms. — Sessions has sent word to the White House that he has no plans to resign and wants to stay as attorney general even amid daily humiliation …
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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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Washington Post:
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 …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Eyes Tax-Code Overhaul, With Emphasis on Middle-Class Break — In Oval Office interview with the Journal, president again criticizes Sessions — In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, President Trump continued to criticize Attorney General Jeff Sessions over his decision …
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Paul Beckett / Wall Street Journal:
Transcript: Donald Trump's Interview With The Wall Street Journal
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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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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Republicans warn Trump: Don't fire Jeff Sessions
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Sessions planning to announce leak investigations: report
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The Daily Beast:
Jeff Sessions Is Growing ‘Pissed’ at Trump, His Allies Say. And He Doesn't Plan to Quit.
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Won't Say if He Will Fire Sessions
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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:
GOP senators must do whatever it takes to get to 50 votes on Obamacare repeal, says HHS secretary — Do whatever “gets us to 50 votes so that we can move forward on a health-care reform legislation,” Tom Price says. — A plan to repeal and replace Obamacare by Senate Republicans failed …
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The Senate's Health Care Travesty — Ignoring overwhelming public opposition to legislation that would destroy the Affordable Care Act, Senate Republicans voted on Tuesday to begin repealing that law without having any workable plan to replace it. — The majority leader, Mitch McConnell …
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New York Times:
Senate Votes Down Broad Obamacare Repeal
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Brian Beutler / New Republic:
There Is No End to the Lies — Republican senators vowed …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Senate rejects ObamaCare repeal, replacement amendment
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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
First GOP health care bill fails, with many more votes to come
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Trump to ban transgender people from all military service — President Trump on Wednesday said he would ban transgender people from any military service. — Trump made the announcement, which would represent a major shift in military policy, on Twitter. He said he had made the decision …
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Trump announces ban on transgender people in U.S. military — President Trump said he will ban transgender people from serving in the military in any capacity, a reversal of the Obama administration decision that would have allowed transgender recruits to serve, he announced Wednesday on social media.
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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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Ari Natter / Bloomberg:
Rick Perry Got Punked in a Fake Interview With Russian Pranksters
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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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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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Feds arrest IT staffer for Wasserman Schultz trying to leave country
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Wasserman Schultz staffer arrested trying to leave the country
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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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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Half of Trump voters say Trump won popular vote
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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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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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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 …
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Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Clinton book to double down on Russia, Comey message — 's upcoming book will double down on Russia's interference and James Comey's involvement in her stunning election defeat, according to sources familiar with the memoir. — Privately, Clinton has told friends and longtime associates that she …
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