Subject: POLITICO Huddle: GOP PLOTS IRAN OPPOSITION -- Negotiators to miss June 30 deadline -- REDISTRICTING DECISION IMMINENT -- Rove v. Cruz
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Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 05:58:53 -0600

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HILL GOP READIES NUKE DEAL OPPOSITION: While Secretary of State John Kerry and U.S. negotiators are racing to finish a final nuclear deal with Iran and other world powers (spoiler: They won't meet the June 30 deadline), the Republican Congress is already ready for a campaign of opposition. A series of closed-door and open hearings organized by Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker have imbued the committee's members with the vocabulary and knowledge to know what they are looking for when the president delivers the nuclear deal to Congress for review. And the sessions have also left GOP lawmakers with a deep skepticism over the direction of the negotiations. As Georgia Sen. Johnny
 Isakson put it: "Every day, the Iranians have more of what they want and we have less than we want. From the briefings, I've got a lot of concern."

Corker tries to influence direction: Corker has been one of the Republicans most amenable to working with the administration over the past couple years, but he says his telegraphed opposition to the emerging deal and his own red lines are part of a mission that he says is intended to create a better deal, not embarrass the president. "I do feel it moving in a non-positive direction," he told us last week. "And I feel like one of my responsibilities is to share publicly those concerns, and privately." Perhaps his toughest words have been saved for Kerry in closed-door meetings; he recalled recently telling the secretary: "John, it's just as much of a legacy to walk from a bad deal." Manu
 Raju and I lift the curtain: 
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NUKE TALKS TO SLIP PAST DEADLINE: The real hard deadline is July 9, after which Congress gets an extra 30 days to review any deal. And it looks like the P5+1 and Iran are going to need that built-in nine-day cushion: AP reports there's no way negotiators will have a final deal by tomorrow evening and senior U.S. officials are acknowledging it "as Iran&#39;s foreign minister prepared to head home for consultations before returning to push for a breakthrough. Iranian media said Mohammed Javad Zarif&#39;s trip was planned in advance. Still, the fact that he was leaving the talks so close to what had been the Tuesday deadline reflected both that the talks had a ways to go and his need to get
 instructions on how to proceed on issues where the sides remain apart - among them how much access Tehran should give to U.N. experts monitoring his country&#39;s compliance to any deal." 
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BIG REDISTRICTING DECISION TODAY: After gay marriage and Obamacare decisions last week, prepare for another big ruling from the Supreme Court. The Arizona legislature is suing the state's redistricting committee over how the congressional districts are drawn, but a ruling on the case is likely to reverberate far beyond the desert. "On the final day of the Supreme Court&#39;s term on Monday, they will issue a ruling that could affect as many as one-third of congressional districts - possibly dramatically remaking the partisan makeup of the next Congress ahead of the 2016 elections ... because other states also use similar commissions to redraw their congressional lines after each decennial
 reapportionment, states and districts far beyond the borders of Arizona could be affected." NPR's Jessica Taylor: 
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EYES ON THE MEDITERRANEAN: Our colleagues at Politico Europe are all over the story of Greece's potential exit from the European Union, as "Greece is hanging on in the euro, possibly the EU, by the thinnest of threads." 
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@jamespmanley: Another sign of the apocalypse? Politico Europe has taken the fine art of live blogging to the Greek exit talks this weekend

Read the live blog, which is already rip-roaring this morning: 
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A fine July 4th recess week to you. Welcome to the Huddle, your play-by-play guide to everything Capitol Hill, where we are hoping for our first real recess of the year. Please send tips to 
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TODAY IN CONGRESS - Both Houses are now in recess until next Tuesday.

AROUND THE HILL - July 4th planning.

ROVE, CRUZ TANGLE OVER AG ENDORSEMENT: Sen. Ted Cruz ratcheted up his feud with Karl Rove late Sunday evening, releasing publicly an email chain from 2009 intended to show that Rove was pushing Cruz to keep an AG campaign donation from former President George H.W. Bush under wraps. Texas Tribune with the backstory: "By Cruz&#39;s telling - which Rove has denied - that was because Rove was raising money for George W. Bush&#39;s presidential library in Dallas, and major donors were backing someone else for attorney general." 
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Rove blasts back: "I am accustomed to being criticized for others' political benefit, but am disappointed in how Senator Cruz decided to raise the name of one of the finest presidents our country has ever known, President George H.W. Bush." His response: 
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RECOVERING: Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) is in fine spirits after prostate cancer surgery on Friday, posting a picture of him and his wife and cracking that he feels "little sore around the middle and cobwebby in the head (so what else is new you say?) but actually feel pretty well." 
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THE CAPITOL ISN'T CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET: Congress has a deliberate 'air gap' between its own networks and the Internet that the rest of us use. If anyone maliciously hacks in and scrambles the Senate committee schedule, they&#39;ll know it&#39;s probably an inside job. Darren Samuelsohn investigates what this means. 
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Key passage: "I stopped Rep. Sean Duffy to ask about some of the privacy and security issues central to the IOT, the Wisconsin Republican and former MTV 'Real World' star - who fashions himself as tech savvy and who is known to take selfies with anyone - looked up quizzically: 'The Internet of Things? What the hell is that?'"

PREPARING FOR LAPSE: When the ball drops midnight Wednesday and the Export-Import Bank loses its charter for the first time in 81 years, conservatives will celebrate but some small businesses won't. "If they're not going to reauthorize it, effectively we won't be able to export anymore," said Don Nelson, president of California-based ProGauge Technologies." Pro's Victoria Guida: 
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SENADORES EN CUBA: A bipartisan crew of senators visited Havana over the weekend, pitching a relaxed travel ban's path to law as starting in the Senate and building in the House. The group: Democrats Ben Cardin of Maryland and Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Republican Dean Heller of Nevada, who told Reuters: "The Senate can move the House, but the Senate&#39;s going to have to act first." 
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THE OLDEST AND BOLDEST: As he closes in on Hillary Clinton, Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders should consider it a compliment that people are now confronting him with questions about him being the oldest president ever if he wins. He argued on ABC on Sunday that he's the most spry 75-year-old in politics. "I don&#39;t think I&#39;ve taken a day off because of sickness in several years. So I believe as somebody who has -- when he was a kid, a long distance runner, I&#39;m blessed with endurance, I&#39;m blessed with health. 
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DISTANT PIPE DREAMS: A D.C. statehood bill from Sen. Tom Carper has fewer cosponsors this Congress than it did last year, per Roll Call: 
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