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Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump “loved” Scaramucci's quotes — but he hates being upstaged — Top Republicans tell us that yesterday may have been an inflection point in the West Wing meltdown — that if behavior like this continues, apparently sanctioned by the President, people will finally leave.
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Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:
Why Anthony Scaramucci's Rant Probably Ticked Off the FBI … In his immediately infamous phone call to a New Yorker staff writer, Anthony Scaramucci didn't just say the White House chief of staff was a “f-king paranoid schizophrenic” or accuse the president's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, of engaging in autofellatio.
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon — He started by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. It escalated from there. — On Wednesday night, I received a phone call from Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump says he wants a ‘general’ to replace Priebus: report — President Trump has said privately that he wants to appoint “a general” to replace White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, The New York Times reports. — The president, the Times reported on Thursday, has so far focused …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Trump's hardball tactics backfire as ‘skinny repeal’ goes down — THE BIG IDEA: President Trump's attacks on Republican senators are finally catching up with him, and Lisa Murkowski will not be bullied. — A last-ditch effort to keep the Obamacare repeal effort alive went …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
House Republicans despair after health care collapse
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The Onion:
Onion Fact Checks: Anthony Scaramucci's ‘New Yorker’ Interview
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Mooch to lower profile after New Yorker fracas
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Scaramucci's tirade — Healthcare's dramatic nightlong coverage — N.Y. Times is failing up
Tony Lee / Breitbart:
The Scaramucci Show: New Communications Director Unloads Nasty Attack on White House Colleagues to Opposition Party
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Ezra Klein / Vox:
I do not know how to convey how appalling the GOP's health care process or policy is
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mccain.senate.gov:
STATEMENT BY SENATOR JOHN McCAIN ON VOTING “NO” ON “SKINNY REPEAL” — Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) released the following statement today on voting “no” on the so-called “skinny repeal” of Obamacare: — “From the beginning, I have believed that Obamacare …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
The night John McCain killed the GOP's health-care fight — It was the most dramatic night in the United States Senate in recent history. Just ask the senators who witnessed it. — A seven-year quest to undo the Affordable Care Act collapsed — at least for now — as Sen. John McCain …
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
How McCain tanked Obamacare repeal — Paul Ryan couldn't persuade him. Neither could Mike Pence. And in the end, President Donald Trump couldn't reel in John McCain either. — The president made a last-ditch effort, calling the Arizona senator and key holdout on the GOP's Obamacare repeal measure …
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
John McCain saved Republicans from themselves — On Thursday, Sen. Lindsey Graham made a demand: He would vote for the terrible healthcare bill being offered before the Senate, a bill he thought would cause health-insurance market disaster if enacted, as long as he received clear assurances …
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New York Times:
Senate Rejects Slimmed-Down Obamacare Repeal as McCain Votes No
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Enough about McCain. It was Collins, Murkowski and red-state Democrats who killed Trumpcare.
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Bloomberg:
Obamacare Repeal Collapses as Senate GOP Blocks Health Bill
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Senate ObamaCare repeal bill falls in shocking vote
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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Obamacare Is Alive Because It Has Made Life Better For Millions
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BuzzFeed:
Part Four: The Secrets Of The Spy In The Bag — Vladimir Putin's former media czar was murdered in Washington, DC on the eve of a planned meeting with the U.S. Justice Department, according to two FBI agents whose assertions cast new doubts on the US government's official explanation of his death.
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Is Woody Allen Without the Humor — Half his tweets show utter weakness. They are plaintive, shrill little cries, usually just after dawn. — The president's primary problem as a leader is not that he is impetuous, brash or naive. It's not that he is inexperienced, crude, an outsider.
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New York Post:
Couple jump to their deaths because they 'can't afford' health care — A couple jumped to their death in Murray Hill early Friday. — Seth Gottfried — Manhattan parents struggling to pay their doctor's bills jumped to their deaths early Friday - leaving double suicide notes pleading …
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Russia Seizes 2 U.S. Properties and Orders Embassy to Cut Staff — MOSCOW — Russia seized two American diplomatic properties on Friday and ordered the United States Embassy in Moscow to reduce its staff by September, in the Kremlin's first retaliatory steps against proposed new American sanctions.
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Andrew Roth / Washington Post:
Russia demands U.S. reduce diplomatic staff in new round of conflict over election hacking
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US Food and Drug Administration:
FDA announces comprehensive regulatory plan to shift trajectory of tobacco-related disease, death — Agency to pursue lowering nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels and create more predictability in tobacco regulation … For Immediate Release — The U.S. Food and Drug …
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Anna Edney / Bloomberg:
Tobacco Shares Plunge After FDA Proposes Cut to Cigarette Nicotine
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Sally Q. Yates / New York Times:
Sally Yates: Protect the Justice Department From President Trump — The spectacle of President Trump's now daily efforts to humiliate the attorney general into resigning has transfixed the country. But while we are busy staring at the wreckage of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' relationship …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump job approval swings lower — After a brief rebound, President Trump's job approval rating has swung lower in the latest Harvard-Harris Poll survey. — Forty-four percent say they approve of the job Trump is doing, a 4-point drop from June and down near the previous low of 45 percent in May.
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Gillian B. White / The Atlantic:
Emerson Collective Acquires Majority Stake in The Atlantic — David G. Bradley, the chairman and owner of Atlantic Media, is announcing this morning that he is selling a majority stake in The Atlantic to Emerson Collective, an organization led by philanthropist and investor Laurene Powell Jobs.
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USA Today:
Russia probe could reveal Trump's closest-held secrets — Since Election Day, President Trump's businesses have sold at least 30 luxury condos and oceanfront lots for about $33 million. That includes millions of dollars in properties to secretive shell companies, which can hide the identities …
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The Daily Caller
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Mark Meadows: New healthcare bill is coming ‘that can get to 51’ — Rep. Mark Meadows, a key negotiator in the effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, said a new effort is underway to write a bill that can pass the Senate that would include proposals offered by Sens. Lindsey Graham, Bill Cassidy, Ted Cruz, and Rob Portman.
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