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9:05 AM ET, July 29, 2019

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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
John Ratcliffe: AG William Barr will deliver justice to any Obama officials who committed crimes  —  A top Republican investigator said accountability is coming for any of those individuals who may have committed crimes during the Trump-Russia investigation.
Discussion: RedState, Fox News and Mediaite
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New York Times:
Dan Coats to Step Down as Intelligence Chief; Trump Picks Loyalist for Job  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump announced on Sunday that Dan Coats would step down as director of national intelligence after a fraught tenure marked by tension with the Oval Office, and he tapped one of his staunch defenders …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe to replace Dan Coats as DNI
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is leaving office after clashing with Trump on national security
Discussion: The Atlantic, POLITICUSUSA and Vox
New York Times:
Gilroy Festival Shooting in California Kills at Least 3  —  At least three people were killed and 15 more were injured in a shooting at a garlic festival in Gilroy, Calif., on Sunday, the authorities said.  —  A suspect carrying an assault-style rifle was fatally shot by the Gilroy police …
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Justin Doom / ABC News:
At least 3 killed, including 6-year-old, in shooting at garlic festival in California  —  At least three people, plus a suspect, died after a shooting at the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival in California.  —  Among those killed on Sunday was a 6-year-old boy, his grandmother told ABC San Francisco station KGO.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Racism Infests the Republican Party  —  As his latest foray into bigotry shows, the president is feeling empowered by the lack of opposition from within the GOP.  —  Back in February, Representative Elijah Cummings, a black Democrat, stood up for his friend, Representative Mark Meadows, a white Republican.
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Hannah Knowles / Washington Post:
Trump attacked Baltimore. The city's newspaper wrote a scathing response.
Discussion: Axios, VICE, The Resurgent and twitchy.com
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:   CNN's Stelter Bashes Fox News Over Trump's Cummings Attacks: Fueling POTUS's Racism With ‘Distorted View of the Country’
Kamala Harris / Medium:
My Plan For Medicare For All  —  There is perhaps no more complicated or more personal issue for Americans than health care.  I know this from my own personal life, caring for my mother as she battled colon cancer.  And I also know it from talking to so many Americans in this campaign …
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New York Times:
Kamala Harris Sets Up Debate Showdown on Health Care With New Plan
Discussion: twitchy.com
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Kamala Harris' new health plan: Medicare for all — with private insurers
Discussion: Axios, Washington Post and CNN
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
With Sunday surge, nearly half of House Democrats back impeachment inquiry  —  Four more rank-and-file Democrats called for opening an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on Sunday, inching lawmakers closer to a significant symbolic milestone: a majority of all House Democrats.
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Rebecca Klar / The Hill:   No. 3 Senate Democrat calls for House to begin impeachment proceedings against Trump
U.S. Congresswoman Suzan Delbene:
DelBene Supports Impeachment Inquiry
Discussion: Rolling Stone
Patrick Reevell / ABC News:
Vladimir Putin critic Alexey Navalny hospitalized with suspected poisoning, doctor says  —  A doctor for Russia's most prominent opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, has suggested the activist has been poisoned after he was hospitalized Sunday after falling mysteriously ill in a Moscow jail.
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Gabriela Resto-Montero / Vox:
Russian police crack down on protesters during the largest demonstrations in a decade
Discussion: CNN, New York Post and Foreign Policy
Rebecca Buck / CNN:
First on CNN: Booker reaches donor threshold for future debate  —  (CNN)As Sen. Cory Booker prepares to take the stage this week for the CNN Democratic debate in Detroit, his campaign tells CNN that he has qualified to participate in the third debate coming up this fall.
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:   ‘He realizes now that he screwed up’: Biden scrambles to recover from debate flop
Axios:
One 2020 candidate has a target on his back for the second debates
Discussion: CNN
Kevin M. Kruse / New York Times:
The Real Problem With Trump's Rallies  —  There are a lot of similarities between the president and George Wallace of Alabama.  But there's also one big difference.  —  Mr. Kruse is a professor of history at Princeton.  —  President Trump's political rallies are certainly a spectacle, but a spectacle we've seen before.
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Hot Air:   Tapper To Rashida Tlaib: Why Do You Only Want To Boycott Israel And Not, Say, Egypt Or Pakistan Or Saudi Arabia?
New York Times:
Federal Inquiry of Trump Friend Focused on Foreign Lobbying  —  WASHINGTON — As Donald J. Trump was preparing to deliver an address on energy policy in May 2016, Paul Manafort, his campaign chairman, had a question about the speech's contents for Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a top campaign fund-raiser and close friend of Mr. Trump.
Rebecca Tan / Washington Post:
Kushner owns lots of Baltimore-area apartments.  Some are infested with mice.  —  In a now-viral tweetstorm on Saturday, President Trump characterized Rep. Elijah E. Cummings's Baltimore-based congressional district as a “rodent infested mess” where “no human” would want to live.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Connie Bruck / New Yorker:
Alan Dershowitz, Devil's Advocate  —  The noted lawyer's long, controversial career—and the accusations against him.  —  “A lie is a lie is a lie,” Whoopi Goldberg said.  It was May 2nd, and she was on the set of “The View,” the daytime talk show that she co-hosts.
Jake Sherman / Politico:
DCCC in ‘complete chaos’ as uproar over diversity intensifies  —  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is in full-blown turmoil.  —  Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairwoman Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) was set to make an unplanned trip to Washington from her district Monday amid …
Discussion: National Review and Political Wire
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
How Robert Mueller shielded Trump's budget deal  —  Before President Trump agreed to support a 2-year budget deal that would inflate the national debt and allow $320 billion in new spending, he monitored Fox News for signs of rebellion.  But instead of bringing up fiscal responsibility and the national debt …
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John Huey / Washington Post:   Robert Mueller and what all men of a certain age know
 
 
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The print reader-in-chief: Inside Trump's retro media diet
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Don't get complacent. Things really are that bad under Trump.
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Goes the Extra Mile to Make His Point About Drug Prices
Washington Post:
Trump thinks racist rhetoric will help him in 2020. The data suggest otherwise.
Discussion: Political Wire
Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Seven 2020 Democrats Pledge to Focus First Bill on Fighting Corruption
Washington Post:
Independent Democratic effort to defeat Trump raises more than $23 million, group says
Bill Ruthhart / Chicago Tribune:
As Democrats descend on Detroit for presidential debate, black voters offer a warning: Don't take us for granted
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside Donald Trump's ‘brilliant and sinister’ merchandising operation
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Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Facebook Connected Her to a Tattooed Soldier in Iraq. Or So She Thought.
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Leftists Rule at the Whitney
Steve Contorno / Tampa Bay Times:
Rick Scott on ‘Meet the Press’ admits he hasn't read new Senate report on Russian election hacking
Discussion: Florida Politics
Laurence H. Tribe / USA Today:
We are finally on the path to Trump impeachment and saving what our Founders gave us
Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Beers, nostalgia and worry in Michigan as historic GM plant closes
 

 
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