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Ron DeSantis wants you to ignore his current predicament that he's spending too fast and furious and is cutting staff and that seven weeks in he can't cut into Donald Trump's lead. 

Plus: Backlash ... then backtrack. A top Democrat crosses the line into anti-semitism, earns a rebuke from her own party and then revises her words. 

And: Does Joe Manchin want to run for president on a third-party ticket? Today he makes a splashy appearance in New Hampshire alongside a group that some worry might cut into Biden. 

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First: With six months until the Iowa caucuses, GOP campaigns continue shift: Desantis cuts staff and shifts media strategy while Trump claims Desantis is "dividing the party." 

Plus: With rising wages, falling inflation, and booming stocks, why don't Americans agree that the The Biden Economy is "a fabulous economic recovery?" Can the President change their minds? 

And: A culture war comes for the Pentagon, the FBI and more—how the Republicans made the US military the latest frontline in the battle over "woke."

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First: Republicans pass a crucial bill that assures the US Is ready to fight wars after putting a deliberate conservative stamp on it. 

Plus: A new report reveals that prosecutors asked Jared Kushner whether Donald Trump believed his own election lies. 

And: The countdown to the caucuses is on as the former president decides to play hooky and skip a big summit. 

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First: Joe Biden promises Ukraine will get into NATO ... eventually. And his message to Vladimir Putin was impossible to misunderstand. Putin is losing. 

Plus: The Secret service ends its investigation into cocaine found at the White House without answering the biggest riddle: Whose was it? 

And: Ron DeSantis spurs some second thoughts among the wealthiest Republicans and sends one on a scouting trip to South Carolina. 

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At day two of the NATO summit, President Biden tells his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, "We're not going anywhere. You're stuck with us." That promise comes as the west outlines that Ukraine's path toward NATO membership. But exactly when Ukraine can walk down that road remains a life-or-death decision. Inside Politics host Dana Bash is joined by Wolf Blitzer, who reports live from Lithuania. 

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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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