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First: It's jury selection day in Georgia. Whoever is picked will make a historic decision whether to charge Donald Trump with trying to sabotage the 2020 election results in that state.
Plus: A deal for one ally, a diss from another. Turkey relents and says yes to letting Sweden join the NATO alliance, but Ukraine upstages the big Biden win with a demand for respect and entering NATO now and not later.
And: Donald Trump says he has problems with Iowa's governor and he plans to skip the headline event for Iowa GOP voters.
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First: President Biden heads abroad for a big NATO summit, but a conversation on if and how quickly to bring Ukraine inside the alliance threatens to fracture unity across Europe.
Plus: Ron DeSantis falls back on blaming a familiar culprit to explain why his campaign stumbled off the blocks: the media.
And: A New York Times column features what might be the ugliest headline of the Biden presidency.
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After ceding the Fourth of July campaign trail to his rivals, Donald Trump returns to campaign. Does absence make voter’s hearts grow fonder? Plus, after a controversial attack on a fellow member, the Freedom Caucus votes to oust Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Also, Democratic anxiety rises as the possibility of a third-party candidate gets more real by the day.
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First: New and exclusive reporting about Special Counsel Jack Smith's questions about an Oval Office meeting at which a trio of Trump staffers pushed him to erase the 2020 election.
Plus: While hiring remains solid, new job numbers fall short of expectations. Does it all point to another rate hike from the Fed that could crunch your credit?
And: The Freedom Caucus purges Marjorie Taylor Greene from its ranks over questions about where her loyalties lie, to the hard right or to the House speaker.
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First: After two previously unsuccessful attempts to get Walt Nauta in front of a judge, the Donald Trump aide charged alongside the former President pleaded not guilty to six federal charges in a Florida courtroom today. Meanwhile, new CNN reporting provides a window into what federal prosecutors knew before the Mar-a-Lago search.
Plus: Ron DeSantis tries to have his cake and eat it, too, but he risks angering the Trump base by attacking the former president while defending a video that critics say crosses the line into outright homophobia.
And: A new ad the Mike Pence team says Donald Trump doesn't deserve a second term because he's soft on dictators.
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First: Republicans pound the pavement, put on their best everyman polos and look for votes between burgers, dogs, and fireworks. Fourth of July provides a 2024 test, one Donald Trump bets he's fine just skipping.
Plus: A First Amendment victory or a green light to conspiracy theorists? A judge calls a Biden effort to stop disinformation from running wild Orwellian while telling top White House officials to cut off contact with social media companies.
And: Cocaine found at the White House. A positive lab test prompts an obvious question for the Secret Service: Whose coke was it?
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First: A top Ron DeSantis aide gives a blunt readout on the Florida governor's standing in the 2024 race and the uphill fight to catch Donald Trump. New reporting this hour on why he said what he said.
Plus: GOP presidential hopefuls Pence, Scott, DeSantis, Suarez and Burgum are all walking in parades today, but not Donald Trump - more evidence he's running a very different kind of campaign.
And: No Labels says they want to give voters a third-party alternative, but some critics wonder if what they really want is to deny Joe Biden the presidency.
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First: A new video from presidential candidate Ron DeSantis heavy on anti-woke headlines catches a lot of attention. One Republican group says the Florida governor is dabbling in outright homophobia.
Plus: Mike Pence pleads innocent in the court of public opinion. The former vice president denies he was part of a newly revealed pressure campaign to get Arizona's governor to overturn the 2020 election.
And: The treasury secretary heads to China this week at a tense moment between Washington and Beijing.
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The Supreme Court has flexed its muscles over key aspects of American life. It struck down President Biden’s debt forgiveness plan, limited protections for the LGBTQ+ community and ended race based affirmative action in college admissions.
Plus: Our panel discusses reform for the Supreme Court, a move President Biden says could politicise the Supreme Court forever.
And: While Ron DeSantis focuses on “wokeness” in his campaign, polls indicate Donald Trump is ahead in the GOP Presidential nominations.
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Today at the Supreme Court: Two new rulings, two 6-3 decisions, two more sweeping changes to American life. The Court tilts the scales to the right on speech versus gay rights and on a signature Biden policy to zero out student debt. The latter ruling sparked fury in Congress and celebration on the GOP campaign trail. Republicans say the justices ruled correctly. Democrats say they are controlled by the MAGA right.
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