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RSN: Jane Mayer | A Parlor Game at Rebekah Mercer's Has No Get Out of Jail Free Card

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26 June 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News Jane Mayer | A Parlor Game at Rebekah Mercer's Has No Get Out of Jail Free Card  Jane Mayer, The New Yorker Mayer writes: "Members of the right-wing family that helped put Trump in the White House can relive the campaign in an elaborate dinner-party game." READ MORE Robert Mueller. (photo: James Berglie/TNS) Mueller Obtains Erik Prince's Communications Mallory Shelbourne, The Hill Shelbourne writes: "'As Mr. Prince told the Daily Beast he has spoken voluntarily with Congress and also cooperated completely with the special counsel's investigation, including by providing them total access to his phones and computer, a spokesperson for Prince told ABC." READ MORE Activists in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. (photo: Getty Images) Supreme Court Sends Case on North Carolina Gerrymandering Back to Lower Court Robert Barnes, The Washington Post Bar...

The Daily 202: Liberal hostility toward Trump aides could galvanize the GOP base

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Liberal hostility toward Trump aides could galvanize the GOP base Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, left, watches a baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the New York Yankees on Saturday in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Chris O'Meara/AP) BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Republican who is close with President Trump, was accosted by liberal activists on Friday night as she watched a documentary called “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”  Ironically the film highlights Fred Rogers’s teachings of love and kindness, but Bondi had to be escorted from the theater in Tampa by police as partisans screamed at her. “I'm not Mister Rogers,” one of the activists told  the Tampa Bay Times  afterward. “I don't have the poise or temperament of Mister Rogers.” “We're coming to where you're watching a movie or eating dinner," added another. “Sorry, not sorry.” It’s a far c...