The Note: Health care not dead yet

— -- WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY

THE TAKE with ABC News' Rick Klein

If this was a make-or-break moment, what the break part looks like can lead to all sorts of directions. It's easy enough to imagine enough GOP tweaks and goodies to get to 50 Senate votes in a few weeks, with the conservative holdouts getting just enough of what they want to get health care passed. It's also easy to foresee a restless, angry summer of town halls that makes it unlikely that anyone budges, leaving a tense status quo where presidential tweets stir the pot but not any action. But is it ridiculous to suggest there might be a moment for actual governing? Probably, but it doesn't have to be that way. With Democrats' still backing Obamacare, and Republicans in the still-unfamiliar position of governing, every political leader has a stake in the health care laws, just as all their constituents did already. There are changes – even major ones – that could pass with supermajorities if slogans are just filtered out of the congressional water. Even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is talking about it as a backup option, though he's making his declaration - "we'll have to sit down with [Chuck] Schumer" - sound more like a threat than a roadmap. But if President Trump meant it when he said it would be "OK" if health care overhaul doesn't happen – if he's interested in governing instead of sloganeering – the break could lead to a better set of laws and a real opportunity to lead.

DON'T EXPECT OPPOSITION TO BACK DOWN

Leader McConnell may have decided to punt a vote on health care for now, but that doesn't mean the protests and pressure will die down. Democrats and patient advocacy groups opposing the bill were cautious not to pat themselves on the back Tuesday; instead they again pointed people to the phones. Today, at noon, doctors, nurses, students and seniors at risk of losing care under the bill plan to storm one Senate office building. Later in the day, women's groups will be on the front lawn, linking arms around the Capitol building itself. Tuesday until late in the day, the American Heart Association had patients walking the halls. It is possible at home, out of the limelight of D.C., lawmakers could strike some deals. Conservatives would like to get rid of requirements on insurers, like the rule that they must allow kids on parents' plans until age 26. Moderates, maybe, could be won over with more direct spending in Medicaid expansion states or the provision to defund Planned Parenthood taken out. But finding the motivation to communicate with their colleagues will be hard with folks undoubtedly confronting them about the bill at every July 4th parade and BBQ, ABC News' MaryAlice Parks notes.

WHAT TO WATCH TODAY

The Senate Intelligence Committee holds an open hearing on Russian intervention in the European elections.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"If we don't get it done, it's just going to be something that we're not going to like and that's OK and I understand that very well," President Trump on Senate health care bill after the vote was delayed.

NEED TO READ with ABC News' Adam Kelsey

Pro-Trump PAC pulls ad it launched against GOP senator who opposed health bill. A political action committee supporting President Trump launched an attack advertisement against a member of the president's own party, Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada, over his opposition to the Senate health care bill, then pulled it later the same day. America First Policies PAC said it was pleased the senator "has decided to come back to the table" to negotiate. http://abcn.ws/2sfTnjZ

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort registers as a foreign agent for past work for Ukraine. Former Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort registered with the Department of Justice's Foreign Agents Registration Act unit for his work on behalf of a political party in Ukraine. He is among the people whose activities are under scrutiny as part of the House and Senate investigations into Russia's suspected interference in the U.S. election. http://abcn.ws/2sZeUKR

Roger Stone to testify next month before House Intelligence Committee. Roger Stone, a longtime associate of President Trump, will testify before the House Intelligence Committee July 24 in a closed-door session, ABC News has learned. "Roger Stone has been maligned by innuendo and misinformation regarding all of the events surrounding this investigation," an attorney for Stone said in a statement. http://abcn.ws/2sfONlM

Tillerson urges negotiation to end Gulf crisis but Saudis say no. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held another round of meetings Tuesday in an effort to end the crisis among its Gulf allies but was met with a continued impasse. As the top U.S. diplomat urges restraint and negotiation, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates say their demands on neighbor Qatar are nonnegotiable. http://abcn.ws/2sfTcFl

WHO'S TWEETING?

@burgessev: "Trump doesn't bring us any votes. He just doesn't," said one person familiar with the majority leader's thinking http://politi.co/2sfQ2S2

@nickpugz: The WSJ weighs in on Horizon bill, takes a dig at Princeton U. http://on.wsj.com/2s17F47

@Fahrenthold: UPDATE: Fake Time mag w/@realdonaldtrump on the cover was hung in at least FIVE of his clubs, including Mar-a-Lago. http://wapo.st/2uhDNRM

@SopanDeb: GOP sen left WH saying Trump doesn't grasp basics of health bill he's trying to sell, per@GlennThrush/@jmartNYT: http://nyti.ms/2to5sno

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