The House inches closer to impeachment after Trump’s racist week, CNN selects the Democratic debate lineups with an NBA lottery-style drawing, and Stacy Stanford from the Utah Health Policy Project joins Jon, Jon, Tommy, Dan, and Erin Ryan on stage in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Show Notes

Impeachment

• House shoots down attempt to immediately impeach Trump (Politico)
• House Votes to Kill Trump Impeachment Resolution (NYT)
• The 95 Members who voted to back impeachment (via Manu Raju)
• Pro-impeachment Dems fear Al Green’s renegade push (Politico Tuesday 7/16)
• HOUSE DEMOCRATS JUST SHOT DOWN AN ATTEMPT TO IMPEACH TRUMP (Vanity Fair)
• Here’s Why Impeachment Polling Is All Over The Place (Huffington Post June)
• GOP polling: Impeachment unpopular in swing districts (The Hill 7/8)
• Poll: Democratic support for impeachment grows (Politico 6/19)
• Poll: Support For Impeachment Hearings Grows, But Americans Split On Way Forward (NPR 6/18)

The House and Cabinet Members

• House Holds Barr and Ross in Contempt Over Census Dispute (NYT)
• Can’t Impeach Trump? Go After His Cabinet. (The Atlantic 7/16) – By Garrett Epps
• Why Democrats’ oversight machine is moving so slowly against Trump (Politico)
• Mother Jones – House Votes to Hold Top Trump Officials in Criminal Contempt for Withholding Census Documents
• Moderate Democrats are getting skittish about confronting Trump’s racism. Seriously? (WaPo)

Mueller

• Mueller testimony delayed by 1 week (Politico)
• Here are the major questions surrounding Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony (ThinkProgress)
• Former solicitor general under President Obama, Neal Katyal breaks down the three critical questions for Bob Mueller that will deliver revealing answers in his upcoming testimony (MSNBC)
• Empty Wheel – By Marcy Wheeler – RENEWING MY OBSESSION WITH PAUL MANAFORT’S IPODS: ROBERT MUELLER’S 2,300 MEDIA DEVICES
• Lawfare – By Quinta Jurecic – How Congress Should Think About Mueller’s Testimony (July 9)
• NYT: Investigation Into Trump Campaign Finance Violations Is Over, Judge Says
• NYT: House Votes to Kill Trump Impeachment Resolution
• Politico: House shoots down attempt to immediately impeach Trump

2020

• CNN: Here are the 2020 Democratic candidates who qualify for CNN’s debate
• Dave Weigel: Mike Gravel won’t make debate stage
• The AP: CNN plans to set Detroit debate lineup reminiscent of sports
• WaPo op-ed: CNN, don’t make the same mistake NBC did in setting your Democratic debate lineups
• Politico: DNC tinkers with format for next debates
• Vox: 5 winners and 18 losers from the Democratic presidential fundraising quarter
• WaPo: The Trailer: What we learned from the latest fundraising reports
• CNN: CNN Poll: Biden, Sanders and Warren top the 2020 Democratic field in New Hampshire
• NYT: Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris Have Made Waves. Some Progressives Remain Skeptical.
• Politico: Harris, Warren surge in new California poll
• Recode: Presidential candidate Michael Bennet is way behind in the polls. But he believes he can win the nomination — and beat Trump.
• Politico: Booker struggling with black voters and Hispanics cool on Castro
• WaPo: Democratic hopeful Beto O’Rourke raises a lackluster $3.7 million in second quarter
• FiveThirtyEight: Who’s In Danger Of Missing The Third Debate?
• WaPo: Which 2020 Democrats are on the endangered list?
• WILX: Democratic Presidential candidates will attend state’s NAACP dinner before debate
• NBC News – Democrats duel over health care in new campaign dust-up
• Politico: Sanders calls on Democratic rivals to reject drug, insurance industry donations
• ABC News: Bernie Sanders accepted pharma executives’ donations prior to new pledge
• Politico: How Joe Biden would address agriculture and rural issues
• CNN: Bernie Sanders defends Medicare for All plan against ‘misinformation’ as fight with Biden heats up
• WaPo: Sanders toughens his critique of Biden, signaling more clashes ahead
• The Hill: Warren introduces bill targeted at food insecurity on college campuses
• NYT: Mark Sanford, Once Targeted by Trump, Weighs Primary Challenge Against Him
• WaPo: ‘Win where we won’: As Trump’s campaign boasts of going on offense, its efforts appear squarely aimed at defending his 2016 map
• WaPo: More than 3 million people gave to Democrats via ActBlue, signaling another big year for online small-dollar donations