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Following the news that 'repeal' would not garner the votes required to pass, President Trump said he was disappointed in the Senate's failure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and argued that Republicans should now let the law fail on its own.

Trump on the health care vote: In 2018, "we have to get more Republicans elected because we have to get it done" https://t.co/KRJZifYsXU

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 18, 2017

Maxine Waters, the Democratic Representative from the progressive paradise of California, has been an active participant in the "Resist 45" movement.  She has frequently appeared on political talk shows to call for President Trump's impeachment for, among other things, his clearly 'bigoted' travel ban (which has since been upheld by the Supreme Court) and his support of Russian President Vladimir Putin...even as Putin continued his invasion of 'Korea' (no, that's not a typo...it's an actual quote).

Back in April when Senate Republicans implemented the "nuclear option" to confirm Neil Gorsuch with just 51 votes, instead of the typical 60, moderate Republicans like John McCain only reluctantly agreed to using the legislative gimmick saying it was a "slippery slope" on the path to nuking the entire legislative filibuster.  We wrote about the issue in a post entitled "Gorsuch "Nuclear Option" Could "Fundamentally Transform" The Senate Forever."

Via The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board,

Even Donald Trump might agree that a major reason he won the 2016 election is because voters couldn’t abide Hillary Clinton’s legacy of scandal, deception and stonewalling. Yet on the story of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, Mr. Trump and his family are repeating the mistakes that doomed Mrs. Clinton.

Shortly after CNN reported late on Monday that according to Russian deputy foreign minister Rybakov, the Russian government was "almost" at a deal on getting back property seized by the US...

Just in: Russian Dep Foreign Minister Rybakov says Russian government "almost" at a deal on getting back property seized by the US

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) July 17, 2017