memeorandum: Biden to Visit a Saudi Arabia That Is Closer to Russia Than Ever (Wall Street Journal)

7:45 AM ET, July 13, 2022

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Trump hid plan for Capitol march on day he marked as ‘wild’, panel says — New evidence and testimony showed the president's tweet promoting a protest on Jan. 6 united extremist groups and led to calls for violence — Gift Article — Donald Trump scrawled the words on Twitter …

Politico:
‘His own choices’: Select panel says Trump — not his advisers — set Jan. 6 in motion

Discussion: Insider, NPR, Washington Post, The Dispatch, New York Times, Fox News, Mother Jones, CNN, Maryland Matters, Today's Edition Newsletter, The Hill, Just The News and Axios

Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Proof: Trump Planned the Mob's March to the Capitol

Discussion: Washington Post, ABC News, New Yorker, The Federalist, Common Dreams, NPR, The Dispatch, Insider, NBC Los Angeles and New York Times

Washington Post:
The Jan. 6 hearing showed how lies can kill

Discussion: New York Times, CNBC, NPR, Mediaite, Raw Story, Vox, HuffPost, Occupy Democrats, Fox News, CBS News, WRIC-TV, Media Matters for America, Reuters and Washington Examiner

Washington Post:
Jan. 6 panel escalates showdown with Trump over influencing witnesses

Discussion: Slate, Associated Press, Letters from an American, RADAR, New York Times, NBC News, PBS NewsHour, Al Jazeera, Washington Post, TheGrio, The Guardian, CBS News and Reuters

Washington Post:
Dramatic moments from deprogrammed right-wingers indict the whole GOP

Discussion: PoliticusUSA

Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
‘He is not an impressionable child’: Cheney lays marker on Trump, crime

Discussion: Politico, CNN, CNBC, Insider, Occupy Democrats, NBC News, littlegreenfootballs.com, VICE, Washington Times, The Hill, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, Forbes, Deadline, HuffPost, WGN-TV, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, Common Dreams and USA Today

Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
What the Jan. 6 Committee Needs to Ask in the Big Finale

Discussion: American Prospect, CBS News, The Guardian, BuzzFeed News, Raw Story and ABC News

Tony Plohetski / Austin American-Statesman:

Exclusive: Watch Uvalde school shooting video obtained by Statesman showing response — Editor's note: The video footage, audio, and events described in this story are disturbing. Discretion is advised. This exclusive story and video are being made available free of charge as a public service.

Manny Garcia / Austin American-Statesman:

Why the Austin American-Statesman chose to publish video from inside Robb Elementary — The American-Statesman is publishing a video account of the delayed police response at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde after a gunman walked into two classrooms and killed 19 children and their two teachers.

Discussion: Insider, CNN, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Associated Press, Mediaite, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, NBC Los Angeles and New York Post

Uvalde Video / KVUE-TV:
Hallway footage in Uvalde school shooting obtained by KVUE

Discussion: Courthouse News Service, TMZ.com, ABC13 and CNN

NBC News:
Uvalde school's classrooms lacked a basic security feature — and it's missing across America

Discussion: Raw Story, HotAir and KXAN-TV

Will Horner / Wall Street Journal:

Global Oil-Supply Crisis Shows Signs of Easing, IEA Says — Lower demand and a stronger-than-expected Russian supply are helping to ease tightness, International Energy Agency says — The worst oil-supply crisis in decades is showing tentative signs of easing as flagging economic growth weighs …

Marc Caputo / NBC News:

Trump hosts controversial Saudi-funded golf tournament as he mulls 2024 bid — Money. Revenge. Disruption. International intrigue. — These hallmarks of Donald Trump's business brand are all colliding in his latest political controversy involving the world of professional golf.

Discussion: IJR

Wall Street Journal:

Biden to Visit a Saudi Arabia That Is Closer to Russia Than Ever — The oil-rich kingdom has rebuffed Washington's pleas for more oil to hold down global prices — DUBAI—As President Biden prepares to visit Saudi Arabia, the oil-rich kingdom is closer than ever to Russia and has no plans …

Discussion: New York Magazine

New York Times:
Nukes, Oil and a Prince's Redemption: A Trip Fraught With Perils for Biden

Discussion: Politico, UPI, Washington Post, Fox News, NewsNation, NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth, Wide World of News, CNN, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Reuters, Just The News, USA Today, Informed Comment, The Times of Israel, NPR and Bloomberg

Hans Nichols / Axios:

House centrists mull Manchin counteroffer: No new taxes — Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) is gauging support among House centrists for a counteroffer to the emerging Senate reconciliation package, with one big clause: No new taxes. … That could deprive President Biden — and vulnerable lawmakers …

Discussion: Political Wire

Ella Nilsen / CNN:

More than 200 congressional staffers urge Pelosi and Schumer to act on climate or risk dooming younger generations — “We've crafted the legislation necessary to avert climate catastrophe. It's time for you to pass it,” the staffers wrote in a letter, sent to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer …

Burgess Everett / Politico:
Sidelined by Covid, Schumer goes hard from Brooklyn

Discussion: American Prospect

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:

Tears, Screaming and Insults: Inside an ‘Unhinged’ Meeting to Keep Trump in Power — Even by the standards of the Trump White House, a meeting on Dec. 18, 2020, that was highlighted Tuesday by the Jan. 6 committee was extreme. — Give this article- - - Read in app

Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo, Bloomberg and Rolling Stone

Washington Post:

‘Unhinged’: The White House meeting that preceded Trump's ‘will be wild’ tweet — Gift Article — Late on a Friday night about six weeks after Donald Trump lost his reelection, a fistfight nearly broke out in the White House between the president's fired national security adviser and a top White House aide.

Discussion: NBC News, Associated Press, Talking Points Memo and USA Today

CBS News:

Charges: Man lit his camper on fire, defaced own garage to appear targeted due to Trump flag — MINNEAPOLIS - A Brooklyn Center man faces federal charges after he lit his own camper on fire to make it look like a politically-motivated crime, and then allegedly filed several fraudulent insurance claims.

Discussion: Patch and Raw Story

Ankush Khardori / Politico:

A Former Mueller Prosecutor Takes Merrick Garland to Task — Few people know complex federal criminal investigations as well as Andrew Weissmann does. — Over the course of his career, Weissmann has worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, as a deputy and eventually director …

Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner

Ankush Khardori / Politico: Is ‘convergence’ the new ‘collusion’? — With help from Alice Miranda Ollstein

Andrew Solender / Axios:

Logs show 10 House Republicans attended White House meeting on pressuring Pence — Ten Republican members of Congress attended a Dec. 21 White House meeting focused on efforts to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to help overturn the 2020 election, according to the Jan. 6 committee.

Discussion: Insider and Patterico's Pontifications

Washington Post:

Twitter sues Elon Musk, setting stage for epic legal battle — The lawsuit is the first legal volley in what will likely be one of the most watched and contentious business trials in recent history — Listen — Gift Article — Twitter filed suit Tuesday against Elon Musk to force …

Discussion: CNBC, TechCrunch, New York Times, SFist, Townhall, HotAir, KTLA, Mediaite, The Verge, The Western Journal, Fortune, Deadline, Washington Examiner and AppleInsider

New York Times:
Twitter Sues Elon Musk to Force Him to Complete $44 Billion Acquisition

Dan Friedman / Mother Jones:

Leaked Audio: Before Election Day, Bannon Said Trump Planned to Falsely Claim Victory — “That's our strategy. He's gonna declare himself a winner.” … On the evening of October 31, 2020, Steve Bannon told a group of associates that President Donald Trump had a plan to declare victory on election night—even if he was losing.

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, The Atlantic, Insider and Raw Story

Henry Rodgers / The Daily Caller:

EXCLUSIVE: Cassidy Hutchinson Begged Senior Trump Officials For ‘Financial Assistance’ After Being Subpoenaed By J6 Committee — The Jan. 6 Committee's key witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, asked former Senior Trump officials for financial assistance and legal help in February after she was subpoenaed …

Catherine Belton / Washington Post:

The man who has Putin's ear — and may want his job — Russian security chief Nikolai Patrushev is one of the Russian president's few close advisers — Listen — Gift Article — When Russian President Vladimir Putin held the final meeting of his Security Council before launching …

Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Poll Shows Tight Race for Control of Congress as Class Divide Widens — Nonwhite and working-class Democrats worry more about the economy, while white college graduates focus more on cultural issues like abortion rights and guns. — With President Biden's approval rating mired in the 30s …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Big League Politics, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and The Hill

Jacob Ogles / Florida Politics:

Mehmet Oz bragged about hunting in Florida, but he's never held a license — He also claimed to own a hunting ranch in Florida. — Television personality Mehmet Oz spent months in a Pennsylvania Senate race touting a history of hunting in Florida. But the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission …

Sam Karlin / The Advocate:

Louisiana's abortion ban was again blocked by judge. A hearing is set for Monday. — The decision again opens the door for the state's clinics — Louisiana's law banning abortions has once again been blocked by a court, the latest in a back-and-forth legal battle over abortion access in the state.

Discussion: New York Times, CBS News, WAFB-TV, HuffPost and Associated Press

Craig Mauger / Detroit News:

Whitmer's leads over GOP rivals raising doubts about red wave, poll finds — Lansing — Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has leads over all five of her potential GOP challengers less than four months before Election Day, raising doubts about whether a Republican wave will make landfall in Michigan.

Discussion: Political Wire