memeorandum: Google just hired a diversity VP — just as it struggles with a sexist memo from an employee (Kara Swisher/Recode)

Rod Rosenstein addresses efforts to stop White House leaks — This is a rush transcript from “Fox News Sunday,” August 6, 2017. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: I'm Chris Wallace. — The Russia investigation hits up as the Trump White House deals with a barrage of leaks.

Discussion: The Hill, CNN, The Daily Beast, Just Security, Althouse, The Week, RT and The Gateway Pundit

Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner: Rod Rosenstein: Mueller needs to come to me if he wants to chase any crime outside scope of Russia probe

Kelsey Snell / Washington Post:
Rosenstein: Special counsel Mueller can investigate any crimes he uncovers in Russia probe

Discussion: New York Times and Balloon Juice

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Fight over Trump wall could lead to shutdown — Marc Short, the White House director of legislative affairs, says the Trump administration has clear expectations for the fall: “We get tax reform and we also complete funding of the government which includes rebuilding of the military and securing our border.”

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and Washington Monthly

Axios Sneak Peek — An extra quick Sneak Peek today, with Congress on recess and the President on a working vacation for two weeks at his New Jersey golf club. As always, I'd love your tips and feedback: jonathan@axios.com. And please urge your friends and colleagues to join the conversation by signing up for Sneak Peek.

Discussion: Balloon Juice

Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:

Fight over right to sue nursing homes heats up — Consumer groups are making a last ditch effort to stop the Trump administration from stripping nursing home residents and their families of the right to take facilities to court over alleged abuse, neglect or sexual assault.

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Raw Story and The Washington Journal

Adam Behsudi / Politico:

Trump's Trade Pullout Roils Rural America — EAGLE GROVE, Iowa — On a cloud-swept landscape dotted with grain elevators, a meat producer called Prestage Farms is building a 700,000-square-foot processing plant. The gleaming new factory is both the great hope of Wright County …

Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:

Someone in the White House is working overtime to drive a wedge between the president and his national security adviser. — The war on White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster continues, with allies of Steve Bannon using sympathetic media outlets to push a narrative that McMaster …

Discussion: Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story

Julia Manchester / The Hill:

Former DNC chair criticizes ‘whiny’ left … Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Howard Dean ripped what he called the “whiny” portion of the Democratic Party on Saturday in response to criticism of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) by a number of progressives.

Discussion: Political Wire and The Week

Gardiner Harris / New York Times:

Diplomats Question Tactics of Tillerson, the Executive Turned Secretary of State — WASHINGTON — Several times a week the State Department sends a greeting to a foreign country on the occasion of its national day. By tradition, the salutations have been written by low-level diplomats and routinely approved by their superiors.

Discussion: New York Magazine

CNNMoney:

Kayleigh McEnany appears in pro-Trump ‘news’ video after leaving CNN — Kayleigh McEnany appears in Pro-Trump ‘newscast’ after leaving CNN — Former CNN commentator Kayleigh McEnany is now hosting campaign-style videos for President Trump's Facebook page.

Discussion: Philly.com, Washington Free Beacon, The Week, twitchy.com, Business Insider, AOL, Gizmodo, ThinkProgress and Donald J. Trump

Glenn Smith / Post and Courier:

Emails: South Carolina AG coordinated with key figure in statehouse probe on letter booting special prosecutor off case — S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson criticizes his appointed special prosecutor, 1st Circuit Solicitor David Pascoe, during a March 2016 press conference regarding the Statehouse corruption probe.

Discussion: Political Wire

Kevin Robillard / Politico:

Chance to be governor lures members from House — Fully half of the 18 members leaving the House next year jumped in order to run for governor in their states, looking to trade in legislative gridlock for executive orders — and the chance to play a dominating role in redrawing their colleagues' districts in four years.

Discussion: The Week

Paul Rosenberg / Salon:

Trump's malignant pattern: He woos people, rips them off and then abandons them — and he won't stop — Trump has followed the same manipulative script over and over again, in politics as in business. We're the marks — Donald Trump's astonishing New York Times interview from July 19 …

Chicago Sun Times:

Rahm Emanuel: Trump admin trying to blackmail sanctuary cities — Mayor Rahm Emanuel, with Police Supt. Eddie Johnson (left) and U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (right) announces a federal lawsuit challenging the Justice Department's threats to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities and states.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Fox News and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Aaron Lorenzo / Politico:

Tax writers see peril in Trump's Obamacare persistence — Republicans acknowledge that the aggressive timeline they have set up for overhauling the tax code this fall leaves them little room for error. — There could be one problem with that: Obamacare isn't going away.

David Wasserman / FiveThirtyEight:

The Congressional Map Is Historically Biased Toward The GOP — When Democrats think about their party's problems on the political map, they tend to think of President Trump's ability to win the White House despite losing the popular vote and Republicans' potent efforts to gerrymander congressional districts.

New York Times:

Trump Embraces a Senseless Immigration Proposal — President Trump has endorsed legislation that would slash legal immigration by half, mainly by cutting the number of visas granted to relatives of citizens, while favoring people who speak English and have advanced degrees.

Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog

Will Bunch / Philly.com:

How can Kelly save Trump when he was a human-rights disaster at Homeland Security? — Many are poor, most are tired, and all of them are yearning to breathe free as they disembark from buses at Montreal's old colossus, the faded Olympic Stadium. The vast concrete sanctuary is another rock-hard …

Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:

Many Politicians Lie. But Trump Has Elevated the Art of Fabrication. — WASHINGTON — Whit Ayres, a Republican political consultant here, likes to tell his clients that there are “three keys to credibility.” — “One, never defend the indefensible,” he says. “Two, never deny the undeniable.

Susan B. Glasser / Politico:

What's It Like to See a Democracy Destroyed? — What's it like to watch a country implode? To see a democracy destroyed and an economy crater? — Since 2014, American journalist Hannah Dreier has documented just that in Venezuela, once one of the world's wealthiest nations and still home …

Jessica McBride / Heavy.com:

Nicole Mincey: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know — “Nicole Mincey” is a self-described “black conservative” from New Jersey who's been positioned as an entrepreneur running a Trump store of merchandise devoted to the president and who received a shout-out from the president himself.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, The Washington Journal and Mashable

Gizmodo:

Airbnb Won't Put a Roof Over the Heads of Nazis — This Saturday, Virginia's Lee Park is slated to be the meeting place of the Unite The Right rally, a much-publicized gathering of far-right personalities and their sycophants. With less than a week to go, Airbnb has taken active measures …

Discussion: Occidental Dissent and Vox Popoli