Cruelty, Incompetence and Lies  —  Graham-Cassidy, the health bill the Senate may vote on next week, is stunningly cruel.  It's also incompetently drafted: The bill's sponsors clearly had no idea what they were doing when they put it together.  Furthermore, their efforts to sell the bill involve obvious, blatant lies.

Sandoval doubles down on criticism of Heller-sponsored measure; state analysis highlights up to $2 billion loss  —  Gov. Brian Sandoval said Thursday that the flexibility fellow Republican Sen. Dean Heller promised will be good for Nevada in a health-care bill he's sponsoring is a “false choice” …

The key states that would lose funding under Graham-Cassidy  —  A new estimate obtained by Axios from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) projects that Alaska, home to key swing vote Sen. Lisa Murkowski, would lose 38% of federal funding for premium subsidies and Medicaid by 2026 under the Graham-Cassidy proposal.

Axelrod: I cried when they passed Obamacare  — David Axelrod: When ACA passed, I was reminded of my daughter's struggle with epilepsy and high cost of her medical care  — The new GOP health-care bill would plunge many Americans into the same situation my family was in, he writes

U.S. Monitored Manafort After He Left Trump Campaign  —  The surveillance came as part of a counterintelligence probe into Russian interference with presidential election  —  U.S. authorities placed Paul Manafort under surveillance after he was ousted as Donald Trump's campaign manager …

Trump says this is all a hoax.  Mueller, Congress and Facebook disagree.  —  Special counsel Robert Mueller and three congressional committees are investigating Russian interference in the election, but President Trump is still telling his fans it's a “hoax.”

Price traveled by private plane at least 24 times  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has taken at least 24 flights on private charter planes at taxpayers' expense since early May, according to people with knowledge of his travel plans and a review of HHS documents.