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9:45 AM ET, July 29, 2019

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New York Times:
Gilroy Festival Shooting in California Kills at Least 3  —  At least three people were killed and 12 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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San Francisco Chronicle:
Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: 3 killed, 15 wounded, gunman dead  —  A gunman with an assault-type rifle opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday evening, killing three and wounding 15 others, some critically, before being killed by police, Gilroy police said.  A 6-year-old boy was among the dead.
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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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:   CNN's Stelter Bashes Fox News Over Trump's Cummings Attacks: Fueling POTUS's Racism With ‘Distorted View of the Country’
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.
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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 …
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
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
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.
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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Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Kamala Harris' new health plan: Medicare for all — with private insurers
Discussion: Axios, Washington Post and CNN
New York Times:
Kamala Harris Sets Up Debate Showdown on Health Care With New Plan
Discussion: twitchy.com
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
Discussion: NBC News
Axios:
One 2020 candidate has a target on his back for the second debates
Discussion: CNN
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Don't get complacent.  Things really are that bad under Trump.  —  The economy is humming.  We're not at war (much).  So he can't be that bad, right?  —  Steadfast NeverTrumpers may find it hard to believe, but I'm hearing that argument more and more lately, as people try to come to terms …
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
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
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?
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
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
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside Donald Trump's ‘brilliant and sinister’ merchandising operation  —  Brad Parscale had just boarded a Jet Blue flight earlier this month when the paper straw he was using ripped in half.  —  As he tried to keep his iced tea from spilling onto his suit, the annoyed Trump campaign manager tweeted …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
Trump thinks racist rhetoric will help him in 2020.  The data suggest otherwise.  —  Backlash to Trump's rhetoric could offset any gains.  —  President Trump's “go back” tweets, directed at four congresswomen of color, elicited strong condemnation of both the president …
Discussion: Political Wire
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
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
The print reader-in-chief: Inside Trump's retro media diet  —  He slams the mainstream media as dishonest liars.  He calls journalists the “enemy of the people.”  He rages at the television hosts he watches during his “Executive Time.”  He hasn't held a traditional White House press conference …
John Huey / Washington Post:
Robert Mueller and what all men of a certain age know  —  John Huey is a former editor in chief of Time Inc. and lives in Charleston, S.C.  —  As a man of a certain age, I have a few thoughts on last week's testimony by former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and the avalanche of punditry that has ensued in its aftermath.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:   How Robert Mueller shielded Trump's budget deal
 
 
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