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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Scaramucci: Trump still doesn't accept intelligence conclusion on Russia — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — Washington (CNN)Newly minted White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci said on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday that President Donald Trump still does not accept …
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Scaramucci vows to take ‘drastic action’ to stop White House leaks — Anthony Scaramucci, the new White House communications director, said Sunday that stopping damaging West Wing leaks is a top priority and that he will take “drastic action” to achieve that goal.
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Scaramucci wrote ‘America deserves better’ than ‘unbridled demagoguery’ in early 2016 op-ed aimed at Trump — STORY HIGHLIGHTS — “Unbridled demagoguery has driven the GOP to an inflection point from which there is no turning back,” Scaramucci wrote in January 2016.
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Adam Peck / ThinkProgress:
Seconds after quoting an anonymous source, Anthony Scaramucci admits the source was Donald Trump — The White House's new communications director just threw his boss under the bus. — Anthony Scaramucci has been on the job for less than 72 hours, and on Sunday he made his first appearance …
Adam Peck / ThinkProgress:
Kellyanne Conway thinks Donald Trump's lies are ok because 'he doesn't think he's lying' — The White House would rather be portrayed as clueless than criminal. — On Sunday morning's broadcast of CNN's Reliable Sources, White House advisor Kellyanne Conway continued to wage war on the media …
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Hullabaloo
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Scaramucci makes liar out of Trump lawyer: I talked pardons ‘in the Oval Office with the president last week’ — White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci on Sunday appeared to contradict official Trump administration talking points when he revealed that he had spoken …
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Fox News and New York Magazine
Jonathan Swan / Axios:NEW!
Trump wishes Reince would take the hint — A much-discussed question at the top of the White House: just what magnitude of indignity would it take for Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to resign? — President Trump knew that appointing Anthony Scaramucci as communications director would humiliate Reince, who fought hard against it.
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Political Wire
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Scaramucci promises ‘dramatic action’ to stop White House leaks — New White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci pledged Sunday “to take drastic” action to stop leaks coming out of the White House. — “I will take dramatic action to stop those leaks,” Scaramucci told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday.”
Peter Baker / New York Times:
White House Signals Acceptance of Russia Sanctions Bill
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The Hill and The Daily Caller
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Scaramucci: New White House communications strategy needed
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Axios, The Daily Caller and Outside the Beltway
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Trump had ‘The Art of the Deal.’ Now Democrats say their economic agenda is ‘A Better Deal.’ — Completely sapped of power in Washington, top leaders of the Democratic Party now believe that the best way to fight a president who penned “The Art of the Deal” is with an economic agenda that they plan to call “A Better Deal.”
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Schumer: Democrats were ‘namby-pamby’
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Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller and The Week
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 7-23-17: Jay Sekulow, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Sen. Chuck Schumer
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Salon, Politicus USA, AOL and twitchy.com
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Dems to announce ‘A better deal’ economic agenda on Monday: report
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Washington Free Beacon
Simon Walters / Daily Mail:
Donald Trump has been asked to make a ‘dummy run’ visit to Britain later this year for brief talks with Theresa May to show he can avoid embarrassing Queen — Donald Trump has been asked to make a ‘dummy’ State visit to Britain this year to show he can avoid embarrassing the Queen.
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Political Wire and Axios
Charles Sykes / The Contrarian Conservative:
What Trump Is Doing To The Conservative Character — Curious minds want to know: how would conservatives react if Donald Trump fired special prosecutor Robert Mueller? If he issued sweeping pardons of his family members and cronies, or even himself? — Would that cross a red line …
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RedState
Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
Trump's ‘Great National Infrastructure Program’? Stalled — WASHINGTON — As a candidate, President Trump billed himself as a new breed of think-big Republican, pitching a $1 trillion campaign pledge to reconstruct the nation's roadways, waterworks and bridges — along with a promise to revive the lost art of the bipartisan deal.
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Political Wire
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
This presidency can't be saved. It's all downhill from here. — In light of news reports that President Trump's team is scouring the record for conflicts of interest on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's team (the essence of chutzpah) and contemplating pardons (of aides and/or himself) …
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Booman Tribune
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Glenn Beck Dishes on Tomi Lahren: 'I Would've Fired Her the Day I Met Her' — During a conversation with Mediaite columnist John Ziegler, Glenn Beck offered some harsh words and significant insight into Tomi Lahren's departure from TheBlaze. Not the least significant detail was that Beck …
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IJR
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David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:NEW!
De Blasio Compared to ‘Cowardly Lion’ After Fleeing Confrontation With Angry Queens Woman — A CBS New York reporter compared Mayor Bill de Blasio to the “cowardly lion” from The Wizard of Oz after he fled a confrontation on Thursday with an angry 63-year-old Queens woman.
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IJR and Conservative News Today
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