Scaramucci Fired

• Scaramucci out as WH communications director by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• Anthony Scaramucci sacked as Trump media chief (BBC)
• Scaramucci removed as White House communications chief (Al Jazeera)
• Scaramucci Out As White House Communications Director by Geoff Bennett (NPR)
• Trump ousts Scaramucci as communications director by Tara Palmeri & Josh Dawsey (Politico)
• The Spectacular Self-Destruction of Anthony Scaramucci by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)

Putin / Russia Sanctions

• Putin to Kick Out 755 US Diplomatic Staff in Revenge for Sanctions by David Gilbert (VICE)
• Kremlin says up to Washington to decide which embassy staff to cut by Maria Tsvetkova and Jack Stubbs (Reuters)
• Putin is playing hardball with Trump. And Trump is conspiculously silent by Aaron Blake (The Washington Post)

Healthcare

• “Why Shouldn’t It Hurt”? Trump Threatens to Begin Sabotaging Obamacare by Isobel Thompson (Vanity Fair)
• Trump on healthcare: ‘Why should Congress not be paying what public pays?’ by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
• It’s not impossible: Four ways Republicans could still take action on Obamacare by Amber Philips (The Washington Post)
• Trump aims at insurers in battle over healthcare subsidies by Susan Heavey and Caroline Humer (Reuters)
• Trump studying executive action on healthcare, senator Rand Paul says (Reuters)

Kelly – Chief of Staff

• Trump swears in new chief of staff by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• Trump: No doubt Kelly ‘will do a spectacular job’ as chief of staff by Nolan D. McCaskill (Politico)
• Trump praises new chief of staff for avoiding controversy by Roberta Rampton (Reuters)
• John Kelly’s greatest challenge now is ‘without question’ Trump himself, expert says by Amy B. Wang (Washington Post)

News

• Trump to award first Medal of Honor to Vietnam Army medic by Darlene Superville (AP)
• Timeline: Foreign Efforts To Hack State Election Systems And How Officials Responded by Pam Fessler (NPR)
• Trump bump: Court fights draw big money into attorney general races by Dan Levine and Lawrence Hurley (Reuters)
• Trump says White House not in chaos by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
• Trump says no ‘Chaos!’ at White House, but continues threats by Eileen Sullivan (The NY Times)
• Trump risks US being seen as ‘kleptocracy’, says ex-ethics chief Walter Shaub by David Smith (The Guardian)
• Trump dictated son’s misleading statement on meeting with Russian lawyer by Ashley Parker, Carol D. Leonnig, Philip Rucker and Tom Hamburger (Washington Post)
• Report: Trump Cabinet members attend weekly Bible study by Olivia Beavers (The Hill)
• The company behind Keystone XL isn’t even sure if there’s a need for the pipeline anymore by Natasha Geiling (ThinkProgress)
• Report: President Trump himself crafted his son’s misleading Russia statement by Andrew Prokop (Vox)

Analysis

• 4 Ways Far-Right Groups Are Winning The Social Media Battle by Kirk Siegler (NPR)
• Paul Krugman: Trump Isn’t an Aberration—He’s the Logical Conclusion of 40 Years of Conservative Lies by Ilana Novick (AlterNet)
• Is this Trump’s worst-ever Twitter move? Threatening Congress could become an epic disaster by Bob Cesca (Salon)
• Donald Trump’s shocking disloyalty by Ezra Klein (Vox)
• How Donald Trump’s kleptocracy is ruining American democracy by Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
• An overview of the firings, resignations and withdrawn nominations of the Trump White House (updated) by Philip Bump (Washington Post)

Opinion

• My Party Is in Denial About Donald Trump by Jeff Flake (Politico)

News

• Mike Pence in Estonia to ease Russia concerns in Baltic (Al Jazeera)
• Despite all his promises, Trump has done nothing about the devastating opioid epidemic by Jalal Baig (Salon)
• Newt Gingrich plays Goebbels for Trump in insane attack on justice department and Mueller by Steven Rosenfeld (Salon)
• Forget Breitbart: the White House has a new favorite rightwing media outlet by Lois Beckett (The Guardian)
• Trump urges Republican senators not to give up on healthcare (Reuters)
• Putin, Responding to Sanctions, Orders U.S. to Cut Diplomatic Staff by 755 by Neil MacFarquhar
  

Analysis

• Trump Is on the Losing Side of the Culture War With Transgender Military Issue by Steve Chapman (Reason.com)
• Donald Trump called gang members “animals.” That’s dehumanizing — and dangerous. by Brian Resnick (Vox)
• Author Tom Nichols on how Trump won: “People looked up from their phones and said, ‘Where’s my money?’” by Chauncey Devega (Salon)
• Trump Tries to Regroup as the West Wing Battles Itself by Peter Baker (NY Times)
• Amtrak’s $630m Trump budget cut could derail service in 220 US cities by Tom Dart (Guardian)
• Trump’s new weapon? His Cabinet by Devin Henry (The Hill)

Opinion

• Why Anthony Scaramucci’s Paranoid Schizophrenia Insult Was Offensive by Rebecca Chamara (Teen Vogue)
• President Trump’s Really Weak Week by Maureen Dowd (NY Times)

News

• Trump says G.O.P. Senators ‘Look like fools’ after Health Bill’s failure by Maggie Haberman (The NY Times)
• Foxconn’s $10bn move to the US is no reason to celebrate by Zoe Sullivan (The Guardian)
• Trump insults and threatens GOP senators in long rant after health bill failure by Avi Selk (Washington Post)
• As Trump steams, Senate Republicans consider new repeal effort by Burgess Everett, Josh Dawsey, and Rachel Bade (Politico)

Analysis

• John Kelly, Trump’s new Chief of staff, ‘won’t suffer idiots and fools’ by Andrew deGrandpre (The Washington Post)
• Republicans’ failure to ‘repeal and replace’ Obamacare may cost them at the ballot box by Mike DeBonis and Amber Phillips (The Washington Post)
• How Schumer held Democrats together through a health care maelstrom by Jennifer Steinhauer (The NY Times)
• ‘The President is a pyromaniac’: The week Trump set fire to the White House by David Smith (The Guardian)
• Trump tries to regroup as the West Wing battles itself by Peter Baker (The NY Times)
• The Trump administration’s chaos has reached an astounding new level by Andrew Prokop (Vox)
• How tax breaks could break tax reform by Brian Faler (Politico)
• The Kremlin is done betting on Trump and planning how to strike back against U.S. sanctions by Andrew Roth (Washington Post)
• The White House’s calamitous week by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
• Could Trump Pardon Himself? Probably Not by Nina Totenberg (NPR)

Opinion

• Trump’s latest desperate gamble: Damaged president tries to save himself by persecuting transgender Americans by Lucian K. Truscott, IV (Salon)
• Sure, “give up” on Ivanka — but don’t take your eyes off her by Erin Keane (Salon)

Healthcare

• Mccain provides the dramatic finale: Thumb down by Carl Hulse (The NY Times)
• On policy, Republicans find they cannot beat something with nothing by Jennifer Steinhauer (The NY Times)
• Republicans try to regroup after healthcare failure, Democrats exult by Matt Flegenheimer (The NY Times)
• 5 takeaways from the failed Senate effort to repeal Obamacare by Thomas Kaplan (The NY Times)
• A look inside the Senate’s late night by Tanner Curtis (The NY Times)
• ‘Wait for the show’: High drama and low voices in a long, weird night at the Capital by Ben Terris (The Washington Post)
• Why the Senate’s Obamacare repeal failed by Perry Bacon Jr. (FiveThirtyEight)
• What McCain did was hard. What Murkowski and Collins did was much harder. by Alexia Fernández Campbell (Vox)
• How repeal died– and could rise again by Vann R. Newkirk II (The Atlantic)
• Republicans are starting to call for Mitch McConnell’s head by Matthew Sheffield (Salon)
• Analysis: GOP failure to replace the health law was years in the making by Julie Rovner (Salon)
• 3 winners and 2 losers from the failure of the latest Senate Health bill by Dylan Matthews (Vox)
• Opinion: Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, the Health Vote Heroines by Gail Collins (NY Times)
• Opinion: My Late Husband Had the Same Cancer as John McCain, and Health Insurance Was a Godsend by Nora McInerny (Self.com)

North Korea

• North Korea fires another missile, its latest toward putting the U.S. within reach by Anna Fifield (The Washington Post)
• The inevitability of North Korea’s weapons by Adam Taylor (The Washington Post)

Scaramucci

• In the Mooch’s debut screw-up, the language was bad. The cluelessness was worse. by Margaret Sullivan (The Washington Post)
• Scaramucci in furious, foul-mouthed attack on White House rivals by David Smith (The Guardian)
• Anthony Scaramucci, explained by Matthew Yglesia (Vox)
• Scaramucci’s wife files for divorce by Judy Kurtz (The Hill)
• Opinion: Scaramucci learned his press tactics from Wall Street. They’ll only get uglier. by Heidi N. Moore

Priebus/Kelly

• • Trump names Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly as White House chief of staff, ousting Reince Priebus by Abby Phillip, Robert Costa and Philip Rucker (Washington Post)
  • Reince Priebus gets pushed out of the White House: Trump fires his chief of staff by Sophie Tesfaye (Salon)
  • Report: Reince Priebus literally got kicked out of the Presidential motorcade by Dylan Matthews (Vox)
  • Why John Kelly is the perfect pick for Trump’s new chief of staff (or at least why Trump thinks he is) by Dara Lind (Vox)
  • With Priebus out, Trump moves still further from the Republican establishment by Amber Phillips (The Washington Post)
  • Reince Priebus’ ouster as Chief of Staff, explained by Andrew Prokop (Vox)

News

• Russia demands U.S. reduce diplomatic staff in new round of conflict over election hacking by Andrew Roth (The Washington Post)
• Ryan: We want to do tax reform ‘better’ than health care by Louis Nelson (Politico)
• Trump encourages Senate to change rules after health care defeat by John Vervohek and Alexander Mallin (ABCnews.go)
• Democrats move to revoke Jared Kushner’s security clearance by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)

Analysis

• Federal Court: Public Officials Cannot Block Social Media Users Because of Their Criticism by Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
• Trump’s speech encouraging police to be ‘rough,’ annotated by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
• There are three branches of government, and two are in distress by Dan Balz (The Washington Post)

Opinion

•  Protect the Justice Department From President Trump by Sally Yates (NY Times)

Trans Soldiers

• Justice Dept. weighs in against protections for gays in the workplace by Alan Feuer (The NY Times)
• Chelsea Manning: President Trump, trans people in the military are here to stay by Chelsea Manning (The NY Times)
• Growing GOP backlash to transgender troop ban underscores Trump’s political miscalculation by James Hohmann (The Washington Post)
• Joint Chiefs: ‘No Modification’ to transgender policy from Trump tweet by Bryan Bender and Jacqueline Klimas (Politico)
• Military to Trump: We won’t ban transgender service members just because you tweeted about it by German Lopez (Vox)
• Pentagon has made no change yet to its transgender policy, says highest-ranking officer in U.S. military by Thomas Gibbons-Neff (The Washington Post)

Healthcare

• Senate GOP leaders work to round-up votes for modest health-care overhaul by Juliet Eilperin, Kelsey Snell, and Sean Sullivan (The Washington Post)
• Republican healthcare debate: What is a ‘skinny repeal’ of Obamacare? by Ben Jacobs and Laura Gambino (The Guardian)
• Republicans Obamacare repeal has revealed a political system where words have no meaning by Ezra Klein (Vox)
• ‘Skinny’ repeal of Obamacare would leave 16 million more people uninsured in a decade by Amy Goldstein (The Washington Post)
• “Skinny” repeal isn’t skinny at all by Sarah Kliff (Vox)
• Senate Healthcare Vote: Narrow repeal measure takes shape by Robert Pear, Thomas Kaplan, and Avantika Chilkoti (The NY Times)
• Panicked Republican Senators Discover That Bill Can Become Law by Jim Newell (Slate)
• Donald Trump threatens to punish Alaska to get back at Lisa Murkowski because of health care by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Reporter who broke rules to stream White House press briefing drew on experiences growing up under dictatorship by Andrew Buncombe (Independent) 
• Republicans’ Obamacare repeal drive has revealed a political system where words have no meaning by Ezra Klein (Vox)
• I do not know how to convey how appalling the GOP’s healthcare process or policy is by Ezra Klein (The NY Times)
• Health care debate: McConnell unveils bill, would leave 15 million uninsured by Robert Pear, Thomas Kaplan, and Emily Cochrane (The NY Times)
• ‘I am totally burned out:’ Patients watch healthcare debate with dread by Jan Hoffman (The NY Times)
• Read the Senate ‘skinny repeal’ bill (The NY Times)

News

• Graham: Firing Mueller would be ‘beginning of the end’ of Trump’s Presidency by Darren Samuelsohn (Politico)
• The Trump White House just went full reality TV by Aaron Blake (The Washington Post)
• Scaramucci denies reporting Priebus to FBI, cites Joe Paterno, vows to ‘inject’ Trump into America by Osita Nwanevu and Ben Mathis-Lilley (Slate)
• Scaramucci Hints Priebus Was Behind a Leak. But There Was No Leak. by Peter Baker (NY Times)
• House approves spending bill with funds for Trump’s border wall by Cristina Marcos and Niv Ellis (The Hill)
• Anthony Scaramucci called me to unload about White House leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon by Ryan Lizza (The New Yorker)

Analysis

• Anthony Scaramucci’s vulgar New Yorker interview is beyond words by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
• Republicans are starting to draw red lines on Trump firing Sessions and Mueller by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
• The Real Reason the White House has such a leak problem by Dara Lind (Vox)
• The White House Press Briefing was an alternative reality on Thursday by Carly Sitrin (Vox)

Opinion

• ‘First They Came For …’ By Charles M. Blow (NY Times)

Trans Soldiers

• Trump: US military will ‘not accept’ transgender people (Al Jazeera)
• Trump: Transgender people ‘can’t serve’ in US military (BBC)
• Taking Care of Trans Soldiers Costs About the Same as Four of Trump’s Trips to Mar-a-Lago by Jack Moore (GQ)
• Trump Says Transgender People Can’t Serve In Military by Laurel Wamsley (NPR)
• Trump’s Transgender Ban Could Force Out Thousands of Service Members by Emma Green (The Atlantic)
• Twitter reacts to Trump’s decision to ban transgender Americans from the military by Annabel Thompson (ThinkProgress)
• ‘Trans Lives, Safety and Service Matter.’ Read Laverne Cox on Trump’s Transgender Military Ban by Joey Nolfi (TIME)
• Chelsea Manning responds to Trump’s transgender military ban: ‘Sounds like cowardice’ by Harriet Agerholm & Tom Batchelor (Independent)
• What Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in US military actually means by Andrew Griffin (Independent)
• Twitter Explodes over Trump’s Sudden Ban on Transgender Troops Maya Kosoff (Vanity Fair)
• Rep. Scott Peters Files Legislation To Block Trump’s Military Trans Ban by Jenna Amatulli (Huffington Post)
• Here’s What Trans Veterans Are Saying About Trump’s Trans Military Ban By Julia Reinstein and Sarah Karlin (Buzzfeed)
• Opinion: Trump’s Contempt for Transgender Heroes by Jennifer Finney Boylan (NY Times)
• Pentagon spends 10 times more on erectile disfunction meds than transgender services by Robin Eberhart (The Hill)
• Sanders threatens to halt briefing as transgender troop ban dominates by Madeline Conway (Politico)
• Hill Democrats slam Trump’s military transgender ban, while GOP is caught by surprise by Mike DeBonis and Ed O’Keefe (The Washington Post)
• ‘It will be fun to watch [Democrats] have to defend this’: Why Trump’s transgender military ban should frighten the GOP by Aaron Blake (The Washington Post)
• Inside Trump’s snap decision to ban transgender troops by Rachel Bade and Josh Dawsey (Politico)
• Trump’s contempt of transgender heroes by Jennifer Finney Boylan (The New York Times)

Healthcare

• John McCain Voted to Approve the Bill He Said He Would Not Vote For by Jack Moore (GQ)
• Republicans Grasp for Health-Care’s ‘Lowest Common Denominator’ by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
• Obamacare repeal battle back on the Senate floor by Richard Cowan (Reuters)
• Senate delays vote on healthcare repeal by Jordain Carney (The Hill)
• Health Care Vote: Senate Rejects Repeal Without Replace by Thomas Kaplan and Eileen Sullivan (NY Times)
• ‘Skinny’ Obamacare repeal still lacks votes to pass by Burgess Everett, Seung Min Kim, and Jennifer Haberkorn (Politico)

Russia / Senate Hearings

• Trump And Congress Are Probably On A Collision Course Over Russia by Nate Silver (FiveThirtyEight)
• Foreign Agents Take Center Stage In Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing by Brian Naylor (NPR)
• Bill Browder’s Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee by Rosie Gray (The Atlantic)

Sessions

• Trump slams Attorney General Sessions, FBI in latest tweets (Reuters)
• U.S. attorney general to unveil leak probes soon: reports (Reuters)
• On Twitter, Trump continues attacks on Sessions by Nolan D. McCaskill (Politico)
• Opinion: A Trump Tower of Absolute Folly by Russ Douthat (NY Times)
• Senate Republicans have tolerated Trump’s controversies. His treatment of Sessions is different. by Paul Kane (The Washington Post)

News

• Moscow warns new U.S. sanctions take ties into uncharted waters (Reuters)
• US parents are pulling their children out of Boy Scouts over Donald Trump’s ‘drunk stepdad’ speech by Chris Baynes (Independent)

Opinion

• To America, It Looks Like Chaos. For Trump, It’s Just Tuesday. by Michael Kruse (Politico)

Healthcare

• John McCain Is Coming Back to the Senate to Vote on Health-Care Repeal by Jack Moore (GQ)
• Senators To Vote On Whether To Proceed With Health Care Debate by Brian Naylor (NPR)
• Republican Senate leader to hold healthcare vote within hours (Reuters)
• Americans share their ACA success stories with John McCain before he votes on health care reform by Taylor Link (Salon)
• GOP promised lower premiums, more competition. Skinny repeal delivers the opposite. by Sarah Kliff (Vox)
• Senate Republicans don’t know what’s in their health bill or what it would do. They’re voting anyway. by Dylan Scott (Vox)
• Senate Health Care Decision: Critical Republicans to Vote Yes by Thomas Kaplan, Robert Pear, and Reed Abelson (NY Times)
• Live: Senate Votes on Considering the Republican Health Care Bill by Staff (NY Times)
• Republicans vote to move ahead on Obamacare repeal by Jennifer Haberkorn, Seung Min Kim, and Burgess Everett (Politico)
• Senate Democrats can’t stop a healthcare vote. Here’s what they’ll do instead. by Jeff Stein (Vox)
• John McCain’s incongruous speech by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
• Your guide to the next steps in the Senate health care debate by Dylan Scott (Vox)
• The Senates healthcare travesty (The NY Times)
• ‘Skinny’ Obamacare repeal would clash with Republicans’ healthcare promises by Margot Sanger-Katz (The NY Times)
• Senate rejects ObamaCare repeal, replacement amendment by Jordan Carney (The Hill)
• Senate Republicans Clear Key Health-Care Hurdle by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)

Boy Scout Speech

• Trump boy scout Jamboree speech angers parents (BBC)
• Trump’s political speech to Scouts inspires parental outrage by Julie Bykowicz (AP)
• Trump’s Boy Scouts Speech And The Thin Line Between Openness And Recklessness by Domenico Montanaro (NPR)
• Trump Goes on Unhinged Rant in Front of Thousands of Children by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
• All The Ways Donald Trump Violated The Boy Scout Law Last Night by Lee Moran (Huffington Post)
• Boy Scouts of America distances itself from partisan politics after Trump speech (Politico)
• The Boy Scouts are stunned by Donald Trump’s jaw-dropping speech by yMatthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Trump’s speech to boy scouts irks some in ‘nonpartisan’ organization by Sandhya Somashekhar and David A. Fahrenthold (The Washington Post)

Sessions

• Trump assails Sessions for ‘very weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes’ by Louis Nelson (Politico)
• The Strange, Slow-Motion Defenestration of Jeff Sessions by David A. Graham (The Atlantic)
• Sessions’ allies say Trump using Twitter attacks to force resignation by Julia Edwards Ainsley (Reuters)
• Donald Trump launches major attack on ‘very weak’ Attorney General Jeff Sessions, amid rumours he is set to fire him by Tom Batchelor (Independent)
• Sessions sets limits on U.S. federal funding for sanctuary cities (Reuters)

Russia

• Why Russia Revelations Never Seem To Change Anything by Julia Azari (FiveThirtyEight)
• Why Trump Might Fire Robert Mueller by Peter Beinart (The Atlantic)
• Manafort Talks With Senate Investigators About June 2016 Meeting With Russians by Eileen Sullivan, Adam Goldman, and Maggie Haberman (NY Times)
• Capitol Hill throws up red flags as Trump moves on Sessions and possibly Mueller by Mike DeBonis (Washington Post)

News

• A Guide to Trump’s $1 Trillion Defense Bill by William D. Hartung (The Nation)
• Trump welcomes Lebanese prime minister Hariri to White House by Darlene Superville (AP)
• Trump, without evidence, cites Ukraine ties to ex-rival Clinton (Reuters)
• Federal judge blocks Trump from deporting almost 1,500 Iraqis by Emily Shugerman (Independent)
• Breitbart turns on Donald Trump with attack on President’s treatment of Jeff Sessions by Andrew Griffin (Independent)
• Conflicting reports emerge over firing of White House press aide by Jordan Fabian (The Hill)
• Scaramucci on Leaks: ‘I’m Going to Fire Everybody’ by Julie Hirschfeld Davis (NY Times)
• House votes overwhelmingly to approve new Russia sanctions (Reuters)

Analysis

• Just How Conservative Was Neil Gorsuch’s First Term? by Oliver Roeder (FiveThirtyEight)
• Senators on hot mic: Trump is ‘crazy’; ‘I’m worried’ by Philip Bump (Vox)

Opinion

• This is not okay by Editorial Board (Washington Post)
• I’d Like to Report a Scam Against the Elderly by Jack Shafer (Politico)

Jared Kushner

• Kushner, in statement, says ‘I did not collude’ with foreign government (Reuter)
• Jared Kushner is blaming his subordinates for leaving out details on security forms by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Kushner Statement to Congress: “I Did Not Collude” by Osita Nwanevu (Slate)
• Read Jared Kushner’s Statement On His Meetings With Russians by Hayley Miller (Huffington Post)
• Opinion: Jared Kushner just threw Donald Trump Jr. under the bus. Bigly. by Greg Sargent (Washington Post)
• Analysis: Jared Kushner’s ‘I did not collude’ statement, parsed by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
• Trump son-in-law Kushner defends conduct after Senate testimony (BBC)
• Jared Kushner Blames Basically Everyone—Donny, His Assistant, His Tough Job—for the Russia Headache by Emily Jane Fox (Vanity Fair)
• What Jared Kushner’s Statement Reveals About Russian Methods by Julia Ioffe (The Atlantic)
• Jared Kushner’s Statement To Congress About Russia, Annotated (NPR)
• Jared Kushner’s Russia defense raises more questions than it answers by Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
• Opinion: Jared Kushner’s only excuse: He doesn’t know what he’s doing by Dana Milbank (The Washington Post)

Russia Investigation

• Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, and why Trump is so afraid of it, explained by Zack Beauchamp, Andrew Prokop (Vox)
• Feinstein calls for Sessions to testify in light of new Russia report by Austin Wright (Politico)

Healthcare

• The Senate Health Care Vote, Simplified by Gisele Grayson (NPR)
• In 24 hours, the Senate will vote on a mystery health care bill by Sarah Kliff (Vox)
• Senate Republicans Don’t Know What Health Care Bill They’re About To Vote For. That’s Nuts. by Jeffrey Young (Huffington Post)
• McCain returning to Senate in time for health vote by Jordain Carney (The Hill)

Anthony Scaramucci

• Anthony Scaramucci Is Already Off to a Horrible Start as White House Communications Director by Jack Moore (GQ)
• Remember When President Obama Articulately Shut Down Anthony Scaramucci in 2010? by Jack Moore (GQ)
• Anthony Scaramucci: 5 things to know about the financier turned communications director by Kelly Swanson (Vox)

News

• Democrats Bet on a Populist Message to Win Back Congress by Clare Foran (The Atlantic)
• Donald Trump’s approval ratings are hitting a record low by Charlie May (Salon)
• Trump asks why ‘beleaguered’ Sessions isn’t investigating Clinton by Louis Nelson (Politico)
• Federal judge allows Trump commission’s nationwide voter data request to go forward by Spencer S. Hsu (Washington Post)
• U.S. judge allows Trump election commission to seek voting data by Lawrence Hurley (Reuters)
• Donald Trump Might Replace Jeff Sessions with a Different Angry Old Bigot by Jay Willis (GQ)
• Donald Trump may be thinking of replacing Jeff Sessions with Rudy Giuliani: report by Matthew Rozsa (Salon)
• Alt-right activists say Trump and Bannon are giving them “space to destroy” by keeping FBI away by Matthew Sheffield (Salon)
• Tillerson may make early exit from State Department: report by Robin Eberhardt (The Hill)
• Trump leaves Sessions twisting in the wind while berating him publicly by Sari Horwitz, Matt Zapotosky, and Robert Costa (The Washington Post)

Analysis

• Bad News For House Republicans: Clinton Won’t Be On The Ballot In 2018 by Harry Enten (FiveThirtyEight)
• Trump insists that senators (who won without him) owe him loyalty (that isn’t returned) Philip Bump (Washington Post)
• The Case for Impeaching Trump If He Fires Robert Mueller by Conor Friedersdorf (The Atlantic)

Opinion

• Trump marginalizes experts, debases expertise by James Hohman (Washington Post)

News

• White House uncertain on fresh sanctions against Russia (BBC)
• White House says open to legislation toughening Russia sanctions by Idrees Ali (Reuters)
• Donald Trump lawyer denies looking into presidential self-pardons (BBC)
• Scaramucci Says Trump Is Still Unsure that Russia Meddled in the Election by Emma Stefansky (Vanity Fair)
• Donald Trump to be blocked from easing Russia sanctions after US Congress agrees legislation by Samuel Osborne (Independent)
• Trump lawyer: Supreme Court will decide on presidential self-pardon by Kevin Robillard (Politico)
• Paul says president likely has authority to pardon himself by Rebecca Savransky (The Hill)
• Kushner to face intel committee on Monday behind closed doors by Devlin Barrett (Washington Post)
• Scaramucci outs Trump as anonymous source disputing Russian hack intel by Olivia Beavers (The Hill)
• Donald Trump to make ‘dummy run’ visit to UK: report by Cathy Buyuk (Politico)
• Another lawsuit seeks Trump’s tax returns by Josh Gerstein (Politico)

Analysis

• 5 reasons why health care bill would fail, 3 why it may not by Alan Fram (AP)
• How Trump Got It Wrong in Saying The Times ‘Foiled’ Killing of ISIS Leader by Michael R. Gordon (NY Times)
• Why Trump’s solo meeting with Putin was a big no-no by Loren DeJonge Schulman (Politico)

News

• Mixed signals from Trump White House on health care strategy by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar & Ken Thomas (AP)
• NAACP Holds First Trump-Era Convention With No National Leader by Hansi Lo Wang (NPR)
• Trump pushes his ‘complete power’ to pardon (Politico)
• Trump Asserts ‘Complete Power to Pardon’ in Saturday Tweetstorm by Adam Serwer (The Atlantic)
• The GOP Escalates Its Battle With the CBO by Vann R. Newkirk II (The Atlantic)
• Pardon me? Legal experts doubt Trump could absolve himself in Russia inquiry (The Guardian)
• Trump: Mueller and Sessions should investigate Clinton ties to Russia by Alicia Cohn (The Hill)
• Trump attacks NY Times for ‘sick agenda’ on national security by Alicia Cohn (The Hill)
• Grassley calls on ‘leaker’ to release Sessions-Russia conversation by Josh Delk (The Hill)
• U.S. investigators seek to turn Manafort in Russia probe: sources by Julia Edwards Ainsley and John Walcott (Reuters)
• Congress reached deal on Russia sanctions, setting up tough choice for Trump by Matt Flegenheimer and David E. Sanger (The NY Times)
• Trump’s new communications director deletes old tweets to avoid “distraction” by Daniel Politi (Slate)
• In tweet storm, Trump decries ‘illegal leaks’ and asserts ‘all agree’ he has complete power to pardon by Ashley Parker and David Nakamura (The Washington Post)