memeorandum: Scaramucci's tirade — Healthcare's dramatic nightlong coverage — N.Y. Times is failing up (Hadas Gold/Politico)

11:15 AM ET, July 28, 2017

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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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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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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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Mike Allen / Axios:

Mooch to lower profile after New Yorker fracas — Incoming White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci has told associates he plans to dramatically pare back his interactions with journalists following his jaw-dropping comments to The New Yorker, sources with direct knowledge tell Axios.

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Hadas Gold / Politico:

Scaramucci's tirade — Healthcare's dramatic nightlong coverage — N.Y. Times is failing up — SPLITSCREEN FRONT PAGE: This morning is one of those whiplash days between two major stories. The White House Communications Director's stunning interview, which in normal years would likely get him fired …

Tony Lee / Breitbart:
The Scaramucci Show: New Communications Director Unloads Nasty Attack on White House Colleagues to Opposition Party

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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Fox News:
Anthony Scaramucci uses vulgar language to lash out at Priebus, make fun of Bannon in interview

Daniel Lippman / Politico: HEALTH CARE BILL GOES UP IN FLAMES …

Alex Conant / Politico:
Why Trump's White House Won't Stop Leaking

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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 …

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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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New York Times:

Senate Rejects Slimmed-Down Obamacare Repeal as McCain Votes No — WASHINGTON — The Senate in the early hours of Friday morning rejected a new, scaled-down Republican plan to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act, derailing the Republicans' seven-year campaign to dismantle President Barack …

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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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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Bloomberg:
Obamacare Repeal Collapses as Senate GOP Blocks Health Bill

Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Senate ObamaCare repeal bill falls in shocking vote

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Ben Terris / Washington Post:
‘Wait for the show’: High drama and low voices in a long, weird night at the Capitol.

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Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
Obamacare Is Alive Because It Has Made Life Better For Millions

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Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal: Senate ‘Skinny’ Repeal Vote Was All About John McCain

Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
‘Skinny’ repeal isn't just a bad bill — it's an insult

Discussion: Daily Wire

Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Female senators are increasingly on receiving end of insults from male officials

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CNN:
Health care debate: Turmoil in Senate as Republicans revolt against ‘skinny bill’

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Rachael Bade / Politico:
House weighs ‘martial law’ for Obamacare repeal

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Erica Martinson / Alaska Dispatch News:
Murkowski says she's not swayed by pressure from Trump administration over health vote

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Caitlin Owens / Axios:
GOP aides say “skinny repeal” could become law if it passes the Senate

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Associated Press:
The Latest: 2 senators deal a blow to ‘skinny repeal’ effort

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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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Elana Schor / Politico:
Congress sends Russia sanctions to Trump's desk, daring a veto

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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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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.

Discussion: Gizmodo

Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Laurene Powell Jobs's Organization to Take Majority Stake in The Atlantic

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New York Times:

In One Day, Trump Administration Lands 3 Punches Against Gay Rights — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration abruptly waded into the culture wars over gay rights this week, signaling in three separate actions that it will use the powers of the federal government to roll back civil rights for gay and transgender people.

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Emma Green / The Atlantic: Trump's Battle Over LGBT Discrimination Is Just Beginning

Fox News:

Obama official made ‘hundreds of unmasking requests,’ GOP chairman says — An Obama official made “hundreds of unmasking requests” during the final year of the previous administration, according to a letter from a top Republican who raised new concerns that officials sought the identities …

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John Solomon / The Hill:
Intelligence chairman accuses Obama aides of hundreds of unmasking requests

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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 …

Monica Hesse / Washington Post:

Did a 9-year-old called ‘Pickle’ really write that letter to Trump? Yep, he's real. — On Wednesday afternoon, while paddling through a week that began with press secretary Sean Spicer's resignation and was pockmarked by Donald Trump dogging his attorney general, the White House launched …

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MJ Lee / CNN:

Cryptic calls, lip-reading and a thumbs-down: Behind McCain's dramatic vote — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — All of Thursday, the usually talkative senator had declined to show his cards to probing reporters — Washington (CNN)"Mr. McCain." — The clerk read the Arizona senator's surname in the microphone of the tense Senate chamber.