KUSHNER SAYS HE HAS 'NOTHING TO HIDE' ON RUSSIA

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President Trump's child in-law, Jared Kushner, developed Monday from a private, two-hour-long meeting with congressional specialists and said his gatherings a year ago with Russians were not some portion of Moscow's crusade to upset the presidential race. 'The majority of my activities were legitimate and happened in the ordinary course of occasions of an exceptionally novel crusade,' Mr. Kushner said on the White House grounds. 'I didn't conspire with Russians, nor do I am aware of anybody in the battle who did.' He said President Trump won the decision since he had a superior message and ran a more quick witted crusade than Hillary Clinton, not on account of he had assistance from Russia. 'Recommending generally derides the individuals who voted in favor of him,' Mr. Kushner said in short comments. He took no inquiries from columnists."

Focuses finger at Trump Jr. - WaPo: "Likewise take note of the remarkable care that went into Kushner's portrayal of the meeting. He guarantees he arrived sufficiently late to miss the implicating some portion of the meeting. Trump Jr. conceded in his second proclamation that the Russian attorney raised the crusade (after an underlying statemen guaranteeing the meeting was just about Russian appropriations) … Kushner's announcement does not deny through and through either that the meeting addressed the battle or that any records had been offered to the Trump camp, which the email bind seems to affirm. Whatever it does is protect Kushner from those realities."

Trump Jr. includes all the more powerful lawful help - Axios: "Donald Trump Jr., who seemed shy of experienced counsels with his email discharge and numerous announcements about the Trump Tower meeting with a Russian legal counselor, is getting assistance from Washington stalwart Fred Fielding in front of the current week's Capitol Hill appearance. Handling was White House direction to Presidents George W. Shrubbery and Ronald Reagan, and appointee advise in the Nixon White House."

Additionally adds previous Grassley help to group - Reuters: "The president's most seasoned child, Donald Trump Jr., has included a legal advisor with congressional experience to his legitimate group, the legal advisor told Reuters on Sunday. Trump Jr. has contracted Karina Lynch of the law office Williams and Jensen, Lynch affirmed in an email to Reuters. … Lynch's history on her law office site depicts her as having knowledge on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. She was likewise investigative guidance to Senator

Charles Grassley, as indicated by her law office life story."

Spox Sanders says Trump will sign Russia sanctions - Reuters: "The White House said on Sunday that U.S. President Donald Trump was interested in marking enactment toughening sanctions on Russia after Senate and House pioneers achieved concurrence on a bill before the end of last week. Congressional Democrats said on Saturday they had concurred with Republicans on an arrangement permitting new endorses focusing on Russia, Iran and North Korea in a bill that would confine any potential exertion by Trump to attempt to lift sanctions against Moscow. 'We bolster where the enactment is currently… " White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told ABC's 'This Week with George Stephanopoulos' program."

TRUMP TO REVIVE PITCH FOR OBAMACARE CUTS BILL

Reuters: "A seven-year Republican push to rescind and supplant Obamacare faces a noteworthy test this week in the U.S. Senate, where officials will choose whether to push ahead and vote on a bill whose points of interest and prospects are questionable. The Senate will choose as ahead of schedule as Tuesday whether to start debating a medicinal services charge. Be that as it may, it stayed misty which variant of the bill the representatives would at last vote as officials arranged to get notification from U.S. President Donald Trump later on Monday. Trump a week ago at first proposed he approved of letting previous President Barack Obama's mark law crumple before later asking Republican legislators to hash out an arrangement. The Republican president is planned to create an impression on medicinal services at 3:15 p.m. following a meeting with individuals the White House said were hurt by the Affordable Care Act. 'Republicans have a last opportunity to make the best decision on Repeal and Replace following quite a while of talking and crusading on it,' Trump tweeted on Monday."

Watch: Trump takes off as GOP legislators chip away at social insurance - President Donald Trump is leaving on battle style occasions in key states to rally his supporters. Here's the reason Fox News Politics Editor Chris Stirewalt thinks Trump is making a keen move. WATCH HERE

Previous GOP congressperson cautions against voting in favor of riddle enactment - Former Sen. David Durenberger, R-Minn., cautions his previous associates about the potential traps in the current week's vote. USA Today: "A vote in these conditions will appropriately incite outrage and doubt improbable to subside. Take it from me: A no vote on the Motion to Proceed this week is the special case that will be faultless in the years to come. I have had my arm curved by the best of them — presidents and Senate pioneers and gathering whips alike. I know how awkward it can be. For the most part, they could endeavor a persuading contention about what is great about the bill for the nation or my state. Be that as it may, I never would have voted in favor of something so broad without knowing the response to every one of the inquiries above. Never in every one of my years did I encounter the level of harassing we see today. It doesn't look great in Minnesota, and I presume it doesn't look any better in your state."

GOP FUNK DEEPENS

Politico: "The Republican Party is more intense than it's been in over 10 years — but it has never appeared to be so feeble. Proceeding with mayhem in the White House has been punctuated by the inability to convey on the GOP's seven-year promise to update Obamacare, and hosts many asking whether the get-together can profit by the broad triumphs it has accomplished at the government, state, and nearby levels. In front of the current week's pivotal Senate vote on human services, White House assistants are now considering how to separate President Donald Trump from Congress and how to pursue the Republicans who vote no — a thought the president appears to be partial to, as indicated by individuals who have addressed him. A few people said he intends to keep up the battle, regardless of how the current week's vote goes."

Byron York: Small ball scores runs as well - WashEx: "A two-section arrangement could be not too far off. The initial segment: Instead of seeking after the huge administrative win, given the divisions among Republicans on Capitol Hill, Trump may be astute to bring down his point, to play what is regularly disparagingly alluded to as 'little ball.' Why continue stressing for the grand slam … when they could endeavor littler activities and achieve more? … Which prompts section two of the Trump arrangement: disregard endeavoring to goad useless Hill Republicans without hesitation and focus on practicing the official specialist of the administration. Trump's 100-day report card depended intensely on official activity."

DEMS UNVEIL 'BETTER DEAL' MESSAGE

The Hill: "Democrats in the two chambers will assemble in rustic Virginia on Monday to divulge another national informing effort went for facilitating the financial strain on average workers Americans –– and impelling their gathering back to control with a specific end goal to check a disagreeable president in Donald Trump. Behind Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the Democrats are trusting their most recent informing pitch will demonstrate a powerful complexity to the Republicans' approach motivation and draw voters to their side in one year from now's midterm decisions. … In its initially stage, discharged Monday morning, the Democrats' battle concentrates on three wide regions: making new occupations; bringing down professionally prescribed medication costs; and controlling the energy of organizations. Prominently missing from the motivation are the social issues –– things like conceptive rights, migration change and firearm control –– that have, now and again, characterized the gathering."

Ouch! - WaPo: "'When you lose to some individual who has 40 percent ubiquity, you don't accuse different things — Comey, Russia — you point the finger at yourself,' Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a meeting seeing the new arrangement. 'So what did we foul up? Individuals didn't comprehend what we remained for, simply that we were against Trump. Furthermore, still trust that.'"

Juan Williams on Dems concentrating on message - The Hill: "This level headed discussion about the correct message and the correct gathering of people for congressional Democrats going into 2018 reaches out to vulnerability about the correct contender to keep running for president in 2020. Who might be on the ideal ticket for Democrats to keep Trump from a moment term in the White House? … Even with a forward-looking political motivation on Capitol Hill, developing stars among the governors and Trump's ceaseless inconveniences, the Democrats are as yet playing second fiddle to the day by day Trump emissions in the press."

Bernie keeping entryway open to 2020 - The Hill: "Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who fought Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic essential and made a progressive development among millennials, is having exchanges about running for president once more. 'Yes, is the appropriate response,' said one Sanders relate who assisted with the congressperson's past offered, in light of an inquiry concerning whether the Independent representative from Vermont had started to consider another run. 'He supposes he's earned the privilege to run once more, and he accepts in the event that he would have been the [Democratic] applicant he would have won against Trump.' The source additionally proposed that Sanders is making his arrangements on account of different hopefuls."

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