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Remarkable NYT interview today with President Trump in the Oval Office, in which he castigated his own attorney general as being “extremely unfair … to the president” for recusing himself from the Russia probe, accused James Comey of using the Steele dossier as leverage over Trump to keep his job, and warned that Special Counsel Robert Mueller would cross a red line if he investigated Trump family finances beyond any Russia connection. There’s much more.
TPM’s Cameron Joseph talked to some disgruntled GOP House members who cast risky votes for Obamacare repeal only to see it die in the Senate: “I just find it interesting to note the number of geniuses serving in the United States Senate,” said one, after Speaker Paul Ryan warned members not to disparage the Senate. Give it a read.
Great reporting from Alice Ollstein and Tierney Sneed on the GOP clusterf*** in the Senate over Obamacare repeal. The new repeal bill fashioned by Mitch McConnell is expected to be unveiled late morning today. Here’s what will make or break their last ditch effort to pull this off.
The email thread setting up that notorious meeting between a “Russian government attorney” and Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort is way worse than you imagined. Read it.
From a cross-country road road trip with his wife, the Democratic elder unleashes a tweet barrage for the ages against Donald Trump: “Dude, get your head in the game.”
