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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why Trump doesn't admit Russian election interference  —  Was Russia's effort to interfere in the 2016 election the most important issue on the table at President Trump's Helsinki summit with President Vladimir Putin?  No. But it's not an unimportant issue either, and Trump knew the American press is obsessed with it.
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump surprised at fierce criticism of Putin news conference  —  Commentators slam Trump for summit performance  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump was upbeat immediately after his news conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, but by the time he returned stateside …
Bill Goodykoontz / USA Today:
Sean Hannity's interview with Donald Trump after the Russia summit was just embarrassing … President Donald Trump's talk with Sean Hannity on Fox News after the summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin was certainly not journalism.  —  A lot of media people wasted no time and spared …
Wall Street Journal:
The Trump First Doctrine  —  Putin respects strength but Trump showed weakness.  —  Donald Trump left for Europe a week ago with his reputation enhanced by a strong Supreme Court nomination.  He returned Monday with that reputation diminished after a tumultuous week of indulging what amounts to the Trump First Doctrine.
Axios:
Trump officials embarrassed by Putin show  —  President Trump sucking up to Vladamir Putin after the summit in Helsinki yesterday was such an unbelievable, indelible moment that many deflated White House officials didn't even bother to defend or explain it.  —  Between the lines …
Washington Post:
‘Very much counter to the plan’: Trump defies advisers in embrace of Putin  —  Administration officials had hoped that maybe, just maybe, Monday's summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladmir Putin would end differently — without a freewheeling 46-minute news conference …
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
The Republican Party Is Now the Blame America Party … At some point in the last week or so, “Make America Great Again” became “Blame America First.”  —  What we saw on Monday from Helsinki is why conservatives (like me) can't back Trump—even with two Supreme Court picks.
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump calls summit with Putin a great success, ‘even better’ than meeting with NATO allies.  Some in GOP disagree.  —  President Trump on Tuesday portrayed his widely panned summit with Russian President Vladi­mir Putin as a great success, saying that it had gone “even better” than a meeting with NATO allies the week before.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Critics of Trump Have a New Word in Their Vocabulary: Treason
Discussion: The Atlantic, RedState and Axios
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Come home, Ambassador Huntsman, your country needs you
Discussion: Fox News
McClatchy Washington Bureau:   Diplomats say it's settled. They can't rely on Trump.
Patrick J. Buchanan / The American Conservative:   Trump Calls Off Cold War II
Tim Hains / RealClearPolitics:
Rand Paul: “Trump Derangement Syndrome” Has Gone Over The Top And People Have Lost The Big Picture
Discussion: CBS News, Breitbart and Instapundit
Rebecca Morin / Politico:
Trump lashes out at media coverage of his Putin meeting
Discussion: BBC and Breitbart
Jamelle Bouie / Slate:
Donald Trump Is Fulfilling All of Those Obama Conspiracy Theories
Discussion: NBC News, Bloomberg and MSNBC
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Putin tussles with Chris Wallace in Fox interview
Discussion: Washington Post and Politico
Roger Kimball / American Greatness:
What Critics Missed About the Trump-Putin Summit
New York Times:
Why Won't Donald Trump Speak for America?
Politico:
Rand finds lots to like in Trump's presser with Putin
Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
Fox & Friends Works Overtime to Explain Directly to Trump What He Got Wrong  —  It's no secret that Fox & Friends is President Donald Trump's preferred morning show, and perhaps banking on his watching on Tuesday, the hosts addressed him directly to explain to him how he screwed up yesterday …
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Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Maria Bartiromo: Trump's Presser ‘Was Probably the Low Point’ of His Presidency
Discussion: TVNewser and CNN
David Morgan / Reuters:
U.S. Treasury moves to protect identities of ‘dark money’ political donors  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury said on Monday that it will no longer require certain tax-exempt organizations including politically active nonprofit groups, such as the National Rifle Association and Planned Parenthood …
Discussion: Common Dreams and Axios
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New York Times:
I.R.S. Will No Longer Force Kochs and Other Groups to Disclose Donors
Discussion: OpenSecrets.org
The Daily Beast:
MGM Resorts Sues Victims of Las Vegas Mass Shooting  —  MGM Resorts International has reportedly filed federal lawsuits against hundreds of victims of last year's mass shooting in Las Vegas in an apparent bid to pre-empt any compensation claims.  MGM, which owns the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino …
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Rachel Crosby / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Lawsuits claim MGM has no liability to Las Vegas shooting victims
Kim Zetter / Motherboard:
Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States  —  Remote-access software and modems on election equipment ‘is the worst decision for security short of leaving ballot boxes on a Moscow street corner.’  —  The nation's top voting machine maker …
Emily Stewart / Vox:
How to watch Barack Obama's speech in South Africa  —  The Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture is his first major public address since leaving office.  —  Former US President Barack Obama will deliver a speech on Tuesday at the 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Obama reflects on “strange and uncertain times” in Mandela speech
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Neck and Neck in CD48  —  6-in-10 partisan voters satisfied with their nominee  —  West Long Branch, NJ - The race for California's 48th Congressional District between Republican incumbent Dana Rohrabacher and Democratic challenger Harley Rouda is virtually tied according to the Monmouth University Poll.
Discussion: Roll Call and Mediaite
Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Trump's ‘Missing DNC Server’ Is Neither Missing Nor a Server … Donald Trump turns to right-wing conspiracy theories when he's cornered, and he was cornered on Monday.  Standing feet away from Vladimir Putin at a press conference following their Helsinki tete-a-tete, a reporter challenged Trump …
Discussion: Daily Wire and Motherboard
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Patti Greco / Cosmopolitan:
The Great CNN Baby Boom  —  AN UNPRECEDENTED NUMBER OF THE NETWORK'S MOST PROMINENT WOMEN ARE PROVING THEY CAN HANDLE A MADDENING NEWS CYCLE  —  When Brianna Keilar saw her CNN colleague Pamela Brown adjust her dress  —  , she became suspicious.  “We were sitting on set …
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
One Country, Two Radically Different Narratives  —  The United States is one country, but Americans are living in two separate worlds.  —  In one version of America, the country is headed in the totally wrong direction.  Billionaires control politics.  Foreign governments meddle in elections.
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PRRI:
American Democracy in Crisis: The Challenges of Voter Knowledge, Participation, and Polarization
Discussion: The Atlantic and Political Wire
Beck Dorey-Stein / New York Times:
I Was a White House Stenographer.  Trump Wasn't a Fan.  —  On Friday, at a news conference with Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain a reporter asked President Trump about disparaging comments he had made about her to The Sun newspaper.  He denied ever having said them and declared …
Discussion: AOL and Raw Story
Hot Air:
Too Good To Check: The Great “Mariia Butina In The Oval Office” Photo Fiasco  —  A fleeting sensation on Twitter this morning from Mic reporter Emily Singer, worthy of more than 1,500 retweets:  —  See the redheaded woman in the doorway, her face just visible over the shoulder of the guy in the blue tie?
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
A Congressional Candidate Used to Be a Rapper.  Will It Matter?  —  RHINEBECK, N.Y. — Antonio Delgado is a lot of things: a Rhodes Scholar, a graduate of Harvard Law School, a former lawyer at one of the country's largest lobbying firms, and now the Democratic nominee for Congress …
Colin Kalmbacher / Law & Crime:
Legal Experts Say Manafort Could Be Cutting Plea Deal as Judge Suddenly Delays Proceedings  —  The judge overseeing Paul Manafort's federal court case on charges of tax evasion and bank fraud in Virginia delayed proceedings in a surprise move on Monday afternoon.
Discussion: Raw Story, CANNONFIRE and POLITICUSUSA
 
 
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CBS News:
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