To Your Health: The NY Times reports that Sen. John McCain’s blood clot surgery may be more serious than initially thought, and he may be out of action for weeks, endangering the Senate health care bill. The can’t vote without him.

Further delay in the health care vote might allow opposition to build as the Senate moves toward other pressing business, including tax reform and passing spending bills to keep the government running.

Fake President: Feeling the heat from the Russia mess, President Trump went on a Twitter rampage yesterday, defending his son Donald Jr., trashing the news media as well as his defeated opponent Hillary Clinton, and declaring that his popularity ratings aren’t so bad. “The ABC/Washington Post Poll, even though almost 40% is not bad at this time, was just about the most inaccurate poll around election time!”

He has the lowest ratings of any president this early in his tenure.

With the Russia connection swirling around his oldest son, Trump was in protective daddy mode for his 39-year-old kid. “Hillary Clinton can illegally get the questions to the Debate & delete 33,000 emails but my son Don is being scorned by the Fake News Media?”

As for the news media, the President of the United States said, “With all of its phony unnamed sources & highly slanted & even fraudulent reporting #Fake News is DISTORTING DEMOCRACY in our country!”

He can rant, but Trump has not been able to divert attention from his son’s campaign meeting with a lawyer claiming she represented the Russian government.

Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said on ABC, “This is about as clear of evidence you could find of intent by the campaign to collude with the Russians, to get useful information from the Russians,”

David Remnick writes in The New Yorker that, “James Clapper, the former director of National Intelligence, said that the e-mails were probably “only one anecdote in a much larger story,” adding, “I can’t believe that this one exchange represents all there is, either involving the President’s son or others associated with the campaign.”

Remnick also says, “Social-media wags delighted in reviving the Trump-as-Corleone family meme and compared Donald, Jr., to Fredo, the most hapless of the Corleone progeny. This was unfair to Fredo.”

Nation: Nine members of an extended family were killed and a 13-year-old boy is missing after a flash flood swept through an Arizona swimming hole in the Tonto national Forest. It’s monsoon season in Arizona and heavy rains sometimes bring instant and deadly floods. The local fire chief said, “They had no warning. They heard a roar and it was on top of them.”

Center Court: Tennis great Roger Federer won his 8^th Wimbledon championship yesterday, a new men’s record. It his second Grand Slam title this year and the 19^th of his career. He totaled Croatia’s Marin Cilic, 6-3, 6-1, 6-4.

Who Knew?: After 36 seasons and 12 doctors, the BBC television series “Doctor Who” will have its first female doctor. Jodie Whittaker, who was in the excellent British crime series Broadchurch, will take the part after Peter Capaldi departs in January.

The Obit Page: Actor Martin Landau, who played one of the versatile agents in the Mission: Impossible television series and won an Oscar playing Bela Lugosi in the movie Ed Wood, has died at age at age 89.

Landau earned his fame playing a homosexual killer in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 North by Northwest. He played roles with intensity. He portrayed a desperate ophthalmologist who has his mistress killed in Woody Allen’s 1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors.

Landau spent five successful years as a cartoonist for the NY Daily News, but he quit to become an actor.  He told The Jewish Journal in 2013, “To this day, I can still hear my mother’s voice saying, ‘You did what?!’”

>George Romero, the director who spawned the zombie horror movie with his 1968 cult hit “Night of the Living Dead,” has died at 77.

“Night” cost about $100,000 to make and reaped a fortune. He made a series of “Dead” movies, one of which, Dawn of the Dead, film critic Roger Ebert called “one of the best horror films ever made.’’

Fasten Seat Belts: Conservative harpy Ann Coulter has gone to war with Delta airlines because a flight attendant moved her from an aisle seat to a window.

She tweeted, “Hey @Delta, if it was so important for the dachshund-legged woman to take my seat, she should have BOOKED THE SEAT IN ADVANCE. Like I did.”

And she said, “It cost me $10,000 of my time to pre-select the seat I wanted, investigate type of plane & go back periodically to review seat options”

Obviously, she is not making the best use of her time.