Subject: The Evening: More Putin, ISIS Claims, Fillmore East and More
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The Evening: More Putin, ISIS Claims, Fillmore East and More
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** Good Evening,
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It's Friday, June 2nd.

** Putin Ridicules Allegations
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President Vladimir Putin of Russia today denied that Moscow had colluded with members of Donald Trump’s campaign team before the new administration took office, and said that U.S. allegations that Russia tipped the 2016 presidential election on behalf of Trump “reminds me of anti-Semitism and blaming the Jews.” The Kremlin leader said that Democrats, having lost the election, were trying to put the blame on Russia to cover for their own campaign failures.

“It reminds me of anti-Semitism,” Putin said, his voice rising. “A stupid man who can’t do anything right would blame everything on the Jews,” as the Washington Post’s David Filipov reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/putin-ridicules-allegations-of-collusion-between-trump-aides-and-russian-officials/2017/06/02/46d2c9be-477e-11e7-b08b-1818ab401a7f_story.html?utm_term=.7b7880a75319&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c9e146c2df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c9e146c2df-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: CSIS’s Heather Conley has an important, related report: The Kremlin Playbook (https://www.csis.org/analysis/kremlin-playbook?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c9e146c2df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c9e146c2df-145367789) .

** ISIS Claims Responsibility for Philippine Casino Attack
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The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a rampage at a Manila casino early Friday that left at least 36 people dead, renewing terrorism concerns about an incident the Philippines government said was a botched one-man robbery attempt. The statement echoed others in which the Islamic State says it was behind attacks, but to which there was no operational link to the group, as the
Wall Street Journal’s Ben Otto and James Hookway report (https://www.wsj.com/articles/islamic-state-claims-philippine-casino-attack-1496408476?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c9e146c2df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c9e146c2df-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See CSIS’s interactive report Turning Point: A New Comprehensive Strategy for Countering Violent Extremism (https://www.csis.org/features/turning-point?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c9e146c2df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c9e146c2df-145367789) .

** Jobs Report Leaves Fed Room to Raise Rates
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Employment grew in May, according to data released Friday by the government, offering the latest official snapshot of the economy. 138,000 jobs were added last month. Economists had expected a gain of about 185,000. With this latest jobs report out of the way, the runway is now clear for the Federal Reserve to raise benchmark interest rates when it meets on June 13 and 14, as the
New York Times’ Patricia Cohen reports (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/business/economy/jobs-report.html?_r=0&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c9e146c2df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c9e146c2df-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See “Unemployment rate fell in May for the wrong reasons: Slack still remains (http://www.epi.org/blog/unemployment-rate-fell-in-may-for-the-wrong-reasons-slack-still-remains/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c9e146c2df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c9e146c2df-145367789) ,” from the Economic Policy Institute’s Elise Gould.

** In That Number
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** 2,000
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The number of shipyard workers the U.S. Navy wants to hire to help repair surface warships—per Vice Adm. Thomas Moore, who spoke at CSIS on Thursday. Source: Military.com (http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/06/02/navy-to-hire-more-than-2000-new-federal-shipyard-workers.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c9e146c2df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c9e146c2df-145367789) .

** Critical Quote
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** “Trump should reassure Aung San Suu Kyi that Washington will continue to support Myanmar despite the country’s difficult and fitful transition to democracy.”
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—CSIS’s Murray Hiebert authored a new commentary today, “Trump Should Call Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi (https://www.csis.org/analysis/trump-should-call-myanmars-aung-san-suu-kyi?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c9e146c2df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c9e146c2df-145367789) .”

** iDeas Lab
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Die Welt
ChinaPower is tracking the latest maritime disputes occurring in the South China Sea. See the latest encounter between Indonesia and Vietnam on May 21 (http://chinapower.csis.org/maritime-forces-destabilizing-asia/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c9e146c2df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c9e146c2df-145367789) .

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and video.

** Optics
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Die Welt (Photo Credit: Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Michael Battles.) An Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II flies in an undisclosed location after receiving fuel from a KC-10 Extender while supporting Operation Inherent Resolve on May 31.

** Recommended Reading
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“C.I.A. Names New Iran Chief in a Sign of Trump’s Hard Line (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/world/middleeast/cia-iran-dark-prince-michael-dandrea.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c9e146c2df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c9e146c2df-145367789) ,” by the
New York Times’ Matthew Rosenberg and Adam Goldman.

** This Town Monday
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Join CSIS’s Global Food Security Project at 3:30 p.m. to discuss the four looming famines in Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen (https://www.csis.org/events/four-famines-unprecedented-need-underfunded-response?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c9e146c2df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c9e146c2df-145367789) and the urgent steps the global community should take to respond to the crisis.

Join the Brookings Institution at 9:00 a.m. for “Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama Bin Laden And Al-Qaida In Flight (https://www.brookings.edu/events/the-exile-the-stunning-inside-story-of-osama-bin-laden-and-al-qaida-in-flight/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c9e146c2df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c9e146c2df-145367789) .”

** On Demand
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This week, CSIS hosted “The Navy’s Maintenance Challenge: Resetting the Fleet (https://www.csis.org/events/navys-maintenance-challenge-resetting-fleet?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c9e146c2df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c9e146c2df-145367789) ,” featuring Vice Admiral Thomas J. Moore, commander of Naval Sea Systems Command.

** Sounds
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The CSIS Podcast released a new episode today, “Trump Pulls Out of Paris” on what the U.S. withdrawal might mean for the global climate agenda.

You can listen on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/the-csis-podcast/id383703191?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c9e146c2df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c9e146c2df-145367789) or SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/trump-pulls-out-of-paris?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c9e146c2df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c9e146c2df-145367789) .

** Smiles
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What a smile this week corresponding with all of you about Gregg Allman, the Allman Brothers Band and “Live at The Fillmore East.” My friend Bill sent me an incredible email the other day in which he discussed the fact that he saw James Brown perform live at the Apollo in 1960!

I maintain that “Live at The Fillmore East” is the greatest live record in music history. At least it sounds the best to me.

Recorded over the course of several nights in March 1971, it captured the Allman Brothers performing with blistering energy and maximum precision while they virtually invented an entire genre of music—southern rock.

This clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeLDLVImwYA&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c9e146c2df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c9e146c2df-145367789) comes from a show at the Fillmore East six months earlier. While the audio mix drowns out Gregg Allman’s vocals this is still an extraordinary document. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. Have a great weekend.
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