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6:40 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
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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  —  President Trump announced on Twitter Sunday that he will nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) to replace Dan Coats as director of national intelligence, confirming Axios' earlier reporting that Ratcliffe was favored for the job.
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
Associated Press:
Coats out as national intel director, clashed with Trump
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.
Discussion: RedState, Mediaite and Axios
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Laurence H. Tribe / USA Today:
We are finally on the path to Trump impeachment and saving what our Founders gave us  —  Nancy Pelosi spared moderate Democrats a floor vote on impeachment, but she has unleashed her committee chairs to do exactly what needs to be done.  —  CONNECT  —  Don't let anybody fool you …
Discussion: Washington Post and ABC News
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
Congressman Denny Heck:   STATEMENT: Rep. Denny Heck Supports an Impeachment Inquiry
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
CNN's Stelter Bashes Fox News Over Trump's Cummings Attacks: Fueling POTUS's Racism With ‘Distorted View of the Country’  —  CNN's Brian Stelter opened Reliable Sources on Sunday by dissecting the Donald Trump-Fox News feedback loop that led to the president's attacks on Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD).
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Dan Rodricks / Baltimore Sun:
People who refuse to see or hear Trump's racism in attack on Baltimore are beyond reach, but here goes
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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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Politico:
Kamala Harris' new health plan: Medicare for all — with private insurers  —  Slower than Bernie Sanders, but more ambitious than Joe Biden: How Harris aims to achieve universal health coverage.  —  Sen. Kamala Harris on Monday unveiled a plan to achieve universal coverage by growing Medicare …
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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 …
Discussion: Bloomberg and BuzzFeed News
CNN:   Hoping for a Warren-Sanders clash? Their campaigns say don't hold your breath
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?  —  I would happily boycott Egypt or Saudi Arabia for human rights violations, Tlaib insists, responding to Tapper's question.  —  Okay, he says.  Then why don't you?
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 …
Kate Briquelet / The Daily Beast:
When Epstein Was Cosmo's Bachelor of the Month  —  In July 1980, the predatory financier was featured as the magazine's “Bachelor of the Month” seeking a “cute Texas girl.”  —  Long before Jeffrey Epstein boasted of his billionaires-only client list—and long before his arrests …
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
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.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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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Jack Nicas / New York Times:
Facebook Connected Her to a Tattooed Soldier in Iraq. Or So She Thought.
Axios:
One 2020 candidate has a target on his back for the second debates
Discussion: Politico and CNN
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
Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Beers, nostalgia and worry in Michigan as historic GM plant closes
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Why Democrats Are So Far From Consensus on 2020
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
How Mueller's Lawyers Spun the OLC Guidance on Indicting a Sitting President
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Stories That Divide Us
Discussion: twitchy.com
Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren's plan for private equity has good aims but misses the mark
New York Times:
Under Brazil's Far Right Leader, Amazon Protections Slashed and Forests Fall
Discussion: The Guardian
 

 
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Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo hires Josh Line, who was most recently Paramount Global's chief brand officer, as its CMO to revive its brand as “one of the OGs of the internet”
 
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