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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Monday, June 11, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Heckler Disrupts Biden’s Book-Tour Appearance In Wilmington. <#S1>

• Biden Criticizes Trump For Saying Russia Should Be Invited Back To G-7.
<#S2>

• In Op-Ed, Biden, Frist Call For Trump Not To Cut PEPFAR Funding. <#S3>

• Politico: Obama Meeting Privately With Potential 2020 Democratic Hopefuls.
<#S4>

• Brower: Obama-Biden Relationship “Was Not This Bromance From The
Beginning.” <#S5>

• Rapper T.I. Says He Recently Met With Biden. <#S6>

• Biden To Help Raise Cash For Brown In Cleveland June 29. <#S7>

• On Instagram, Tiffany Trump Post Photo Of Herself, Naomi Biden In The
Hamptons. <#S8>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Doubles Down On G7 Criticism As Kudlow, Navarro Slam Trudeau. <#S9>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump Touts “Excitement In The Air” As He, Kim Arrive In Singapore For
Summit. <#S10>

• Putin Welcomes Meeting With Trump, Says Russia Not Interested In G7.
<#S11>

• Rouhani Criticizes US “Unilateralism” Over Nuclear Deal. <#S12>

• Navarro: Administration Taking “Three Strikes You’re Out” Approach To ZTE.
<#S13>

• Assad Alleges West Fueling Civil War, Hoping To Overthrow Him. <#S14>

• Fire Engulfs Warehouse Storing Iraq Election Ballots Amid Recount. <#S15>

• Cuba: Cause Of Illness In US Diplomats Remains Mystery. <#S16>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• NYTimes: Kelly Calls White House “A Miserable Place To Work.” <#S17>

• Giuliani Says Comey Could Be Prosecuted As Result Of DOJ IG Report. <#S18>

• DOJ Seizure Of NYTimes’ Reporter’s Records Sparks Concern Among
Journalists. <#S19>

• Immigrant Families Leaving US Rather Than Risk Separation. <#S20>

• Administration Proposes Emergency Executive Orders To Prop Up Coal,
Nuclear Plants. <#S21>

• Economists Doubt Job Creation, Wage Impact Stemming From Corporate Tax
Cuts. <#S22>

• Puerto Rican Day Parade Includes Reminders Of Hurricane Maria’s
Destruction. <#S23>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• NCI To Provide $10 Million For Clinical Trials Network, Community
Oncology Research. <#S24>

• Cancer Doctors Worry “Right To Try” May Take Advantage Of Desperate
Patients. <#S25>

• Scientists Say New Non-Addictive Pain Killer Is More Powerful Than
Morphine. <#S26>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S27>

• Washington Post. <#S28>
Biden in the News
Heckler Disrupts Biden’s Book-Tour Appearance In Wilmington.

The Wilmington (DE) News Journal
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(6/10, Price) reports, “A heckler interrupted Joe Biden’s hometown book
tour stop Sunday as the former vice president was talking about sexual
assault to demand: ‘What about the girls you molested on C-Span at the
Senate swearing in?’” Appearing in Wilmington, Biden had been speaking
“about his son Beau’s horror over Lewes pediatrician Earl Bradley, who was
convicted of raping and molesting children as young as infants, when the
man...shouted at” him. The News Journal says, “The audience erupted in
anger, booing and shouting at the man to leave. After a few moments, Biden
quieted the crowd enough to respond: ‘This is not Trump world,’ which drew
a deluge of applause and cheers.” The News Journal adds, “Otherwise Biden’s
American Promise Tour, which revolved around his book ‘Promise me, Dad: A
Year of Hope, Hardship and Purpose,’ was a lovefest between the longtime
Delaware senator and his peeps.”

        *Local TV Stations Highlight Biden’s Friday Visit To Atlanta,
Upcoming Stops On Book Tour. *WSB-TV
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Atlanta (6/9) reported on Biden’s Friday visit to Atlanta as part of his
book tour, saying that when he “walked on to an Atlanta stage, it may have
been only a warm with-up act for things to come. Many in the audience
believe that the tour across America , which he is calling the ‘American
Promise Tour,’ is a prelude is a possible run for president.” WSB-TV added,
“At one point, Congressman John Lewis, who appeared onstage with Biden,
appeared to encourage Biden to run, telling him, ‘I hope and pray that you
continue to fight.’” WSB-TV broadcast an audience member saying in a
post-event interview, “He seems like he wants him to run, too. I think
everyone does.”

        WSOC-TV
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Charlotte, NC (6/10) reported that Biden “will be in Charlotte as part of
his ‘American Promise Tour.’ He’ll discuss the biggest political moments of
his career, the life-altering choices he made, and what’s helped him get
through some of the toughest times. Former Charlotte Mayor and Secretary of
Transportation Anthony Foxx will join Biden.” The event “is set for
Wednesday at the Belk Theatre.” WSOC-TV
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Charlotte, NC (6/10) also offered a brief online article on Biden’s slated
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Charlotte, NC (6/10) offered a similar report.

        KMOV-TV
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St. Louis (6/10) reported that Biden will visit “St. Louis this week. He’ll
be at the Peabody Opera House on Thursday to talk about his recently
released memoir titled ‘Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship and
Purpose.’ Tickets are still available to this event on TicketMaster.”
WATN-TV
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Memphis, TN (6/10) reported that “Biden’s ‘American Promise Tour’ will be
at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis this Friday. Topics he’ll
discuss include the biggest political moments of his career, the loss of
his son beau, and finding his purpose. Biden has not formally declared his
intention to run in 2020, but many consider him a frontrunner, if he were
to do so.”
Biden Criticizes Trump For Saying Russia Should Be Invited Back To G-7.

The Hill
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(6/8, Anapol) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday
“criticized President Trump for suggesting that Russia should be reinstated
into the Group of Seven.” Biden is quoted as saying on Twitter, “Putin’s
Russia invaded its neighbors, violated our sovereignty by undermining
elections, and attacks dissidents abroad. Yet our President wants to reward
him with a seat at the table while alienating our closest democratic
allies. It makes no sense.” Biden’s tweet “came hours after Trump told
reporters on Friday that Russia should be invited back to the summit.”
In Op-Ed, Biden, Frist Call For Trump Not To Cut PEPFAR Funding.

In an op-ed on the website of CNN
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(6/8, Biden, Frist), former Vice President Joe Biden and ex-Sen. Bill Frist
(R) write that May “marked the 15th anniversary of the President’s
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. The celebrations included an
important announcement that didn’t receive enough attention: Today, 14
million people who otherwise wouldn’t have access to care are receiving
lifesaving HIV treatment.” However, the Trump Administration has been
seeking “cuts to the global health and humanitarian budget, including
dangerous reductions in PEPFAR funding. This is not the time to pull back.”
Biden and Frist added, “President Trump must lead the global fight against
HIV/AIDS, not surrender it.”
Politico: Obama Meeting Privately With Potential 2020 Democratic Hopefuls.

Under the headline “Inside Obama’s Secret Meetings With 2020 Contenders,”
Politico
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(6/11, Dovere) reports that former President Barack Obama “has in recent
months met with at least nine prospective 2020 Democratic presidential
candidates, including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden and Deval
Patrick, pulling them in for one-on-one sessions at his Washington office.”
Citing “multiple people who have been briefed on the secretive sit-downs,”
Politico says that “the meetings were arranged quietly, without even some
close advisers to the people involved being told of the conversations, in
part because of how much Obama bristles at his private meetings becoming
public knowledge.” Politico adds, “Obama and Biden remain personally close
and speak by phone, and the former vice president also came by for an
in-person meeting in January.” The presidential “race and what Biden’s
going to do haven’t come up in those discussions, though, with Obama
waiting on his friend to make a decision, according to” sources.

        *Democrats Search For Non-Politician To Challenge Trump In 2020. *The
Washington Post
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(6/10, Scherer) reports that Democrats are “pok[ing] around at the
possibility of finding a non-politician candidate to challenge Donald
Trump’s reelection campaign in 2020.” Although the belief is that “there is
a real opportunity for an outsider to take over the party and challenge
Trump,” the “problem has been finding the right person to do it,
particularly in a party whose voter base is more inclined to favor
government experience.” While some big corporate names have explored
running, currently “the only remaining brand-name business leaders besides
[Starbucks’ chairman Howard] Schultz known to be actively considering a run
are the liberal financier Tom Steyer...and the celebrity entrepreneur Mark
Cuban.”

        *NYTimes A1: Potential Democratic Candidates Begin Competing Over
New York Donors. *The New York Times
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(6/9, A1, Goldmacher) reported on its front page that because the campaigns
of potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates will require “an
ever-dizzying amount of money, an early, behind-the-scenes 2020 contest is
already taking place: the New York money primary.” The Times said that “a
parade of nationally ambitious Democrats have been cycling through the
offices and living rooms of the Manhattan money set.” According to the
Times, “top New York donors and Democratic fund-raisers, in more than two
dozen interviews, said that their phones rarely stop buzzing as candidates
blitz one of the densest concentrations of Democratic wealth in the
country.”

        *DNC To Increase Loyalty Requirements On Presidential
Candidates. *Yahoo!
News
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(6/8, Walker) reported that the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and
Bylaws Committee on Friday adopted a new rule that “would force candidates
in Democratic presidential primaries to state that they are Democrats,
accept the party’s nomination if they win the 2020 primary and to ‘run and
serve’ as a member.”

        *DNC Proposal Would Bar Superdelegates From Voting On First Ballot.
*Meanwhile, the Washington Post
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(6/8, Weigel) reported that DNC Chairman Tom Perez on Tuesday suggested
that as part of a compromise, the committee will change its rules so that
“superdelegates would get no vote on the first ballot at the next
Democratic convention.” The Post said that “while they could endorse
whomever they wanted, and while they would be able to attend the convention
and vote on other matters, the 700-odd elected officials and party leaders
who currently have automatic voting status would not vote on the
presidential nominee unless the contest dragged to a second ballot.” The
Post said the proposal “landed with a thud among some party leaders but
mollified Democrats who have called for superdelegates to be abolished.”
Brower: Obama-Biden Relationship “Was Not This Bromance From The Beginning.”

Author Kate Andersen Brower appeared on MSNBC Kasie DC[image: Image removed
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(6/10), where she discussed her new book about US vice presidents, titled
“First in Line.” Brower said that “each relationship” between a president
and vice president “is different and they often disintegrate over time.
[Former Vice President Joe] Biden and [former President Barack] Obama are
the only two that really grew over time together. It was not this bromance
from the beginning, which I was surprised by, because having covered Obama,
I thought that they loved each at the very beginning. Biden was a little
put off at first about having to clear things through Obama – like his
replacement in the Senate. He said, ‘Why do I have to ask the President
what he thinks about this? You know, I can pick my replacement.’ He had
been in the Senate nearly forty years. He thought he deserved the job.”
Rapper T.I. Says He Recently Met With Biden.

Writing for Hollywood Life
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(6/9), Courteney Larocca said that rapper “T.I. posted a photo of him with
his ‘fav VP’ Joe Biden. Is he considering running for president in 2020?”
T.I. “took to Instagram to share a photo of himself and a very blurred out
Joe Biden, 75,” though “the post appears as if it might have been
photoshopped.” T.I. is quoted as writing under the photo, “If you’re the
smartest person in the room...you’re in the wrong room. ... Discussions
about 2020 wit My fav VP Joe Biden!!!! It ain’t about Black or White,
Democrat or Republican, it’s about Decent & Indecent. .. I’m going with the
most righteous option at all times. No Exceptions.”
Biden To Help Raise Cash For Brown In Cleveland June 29.

Drawing from a Cleveland.com report
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that was covered in the June 8 edition of the Office of Vice President
Biden Intelligence Briefing, the AP
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(6/10) reported that Biden “is scheduled to appear at a fundraiser in
Cleveland” on June 29 benefiting the reelection campaign of Sen. Sherrod
Brown (D), who is being challenged this year by Rep. Jim Renacci (R). This
morning, WOIO-TV
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Cleveland (6/11) also reports on the event, saying that Biden will
“headline a reception dinner at Intercontinental Hotel. Reception tickets
are going for as much $1,000 apiece. Dinner tickets run up to almost
$44,000.”
On Instagram, Tiffany Trump Post Photo Of Herself, Naomi Biden In The
Hamptons.

In an online article, People
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(6/10, Petit) reported, “There’s nothing like a weekend getaway to the
Hamptons to blur party lines. President Donald Trump’s daughter Tiffany
Trump shared a photo with Naomi Biden, granddaughter of former Vice
President Joe Biden, on her Instagram Stories Saturday. The duo attended
the University of Pennsylvania together, and their graduation ceremony in
2016 was attended by both the then-future president and Barack Obama’s VP.
Sitting side by side on the weekend trip to the Hamptons, Tiffany, 24,
smiled as Naomi leaned over in Tiffany’s direction in the black and white
snap.” Under the headline “Tiffany Trump And Naomi Biden Take A Selfie,” Yahoo!
Lifestyle
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(6/10, Weiss) also reported on the story.
Leading the News
Trump Doubles Down On G7 Criticism As Kudlow, Navarro Slam Trudeau.

Media reports cast a highly unfavorable light on the Administration’s
rhetoric toward G7 allies, highlighting US officials’ strong criticism of
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. To the AP
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(6/10, Gillies, Thomas, Lucey), the White House “escalated its trade tirade
and leveled more withering and unprecedented criticism” against Trudeau,
“branding” him “a back-stabber unworthy of President Donald Trump’s time.”
The CBS Weekend News
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(6/10, story 3, 2:15, Quijano) referred to “escalating Trump-Trudeau trade
tensions,” the New York Times
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(6/10, Swanson) calls this weekend’s summit “the rockiest annual meeting of
major Western powers in decades,” The Hill
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(6/10, Samuels) says Trump’s top economic advisers “mounted scathing
attacks” against Trudeau, and to the Washington Times
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(6/10, Howell), trade adviser Peter Navarro “used unusually harsh
language...in blasting” the Canadian leader.

        In a series of tweets last night, Trump said
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“Fair Trade is now to be called Fool Trade if it is not Reciprocal.
According to a Canada release, they make almost 100 Billion Dollars in
Trade with U.S. (guess they were bragging and got caught!). Minimum is 17B.
Tax Dairy from us at 270%. Then Justin acts hurt when called out!”

        Trump then tweeted
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“Why should I, as President of the United States, allow countries to
continue to make Massive Trade Surpluses, as they have for decades, while
our Farmers, Workers & Taxpayers have such a big and unfair price to pay?
Not fair to the PEOPLE of America! $800 Billion Trade Deficit. [...
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And add to that the fact that the U.S. pays close to the entire cost of
NATO-protecting many of these same countries that rip us off on Trade (they
pay only a fraction of the cost-and laugh!). The European Union had a $151
Billion Surplus-should pay much more for Military!...[continuting tweet
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pays 1% (slowly) of GDP towards NATO, while we pay 4% of a MUCH larger GDP.
Does anybody believe that makes sense? We protect Europe (which is good) at
great financial loss, and then get unfairly clobbered on Trade. Change is
coming!” He later tweeted
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“Sorry, we cannot let our friends, or enemies, take advantage of us on
Trade anymore. We must put the American worker first!”

        Reuters
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(6/10, Chiacu) reports National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow
accused Trudeau of betraying Trump with “polarizing” statements on US trade
policy that risked making Trump look weak on the eve of a historic summit
with North Korea. Kudlow “lashed out” at Trudeau as “amateurish” and
“sophomoric” for a news conference he gave after Trump left the G7 summit
on Saturday. The comments, Reuters says, “infuriated” Trump, who called
Trudeau “very dishonest and weak” on Twitter
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on Saturday and then sent Kudlow and trade adviser Peter Navarro “to hammer
the message home on Sunday morning news shows in an extraordinary assault
on a close US ally and neighbor.”

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Trump “agreed with the fairly generic trade language in the communique,”
but objected “when Trudeau said Canada would be forced to retaliate for US
tariffs on steel and aluminum and would not agree to a sunset provision in
a new North American Free Trade Agreement.” Said Kudlow, “We were very
close to making a deal with Canada on NAFTA…then we leave and he pulls this
sophomoric political stunt for domestic consumption.” Politico
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(6/10, Palmer) reports Kudlow said Trump “won’t withdraw from NAFTA,” but
added, “I don’t know [if negotiators will reach a deal], because I think,
again, Trudeau’s very unfortunate statements, his betrayal. He betrayed
Trump.” Townhall
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(6/10, Meads) characterizes Kudlow’s interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper as
“tense,” while the Washington Times
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(6/10, Howell), Washington Examiner
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(6/10, Scarry) and Daily Caller
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(6/10, Meads), among other outlets, also report his comments to CNN.

        On CBS’ Face the Nation
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(6/10, Brennan), Kudlow said, “The President is going to negotiate with Kim
Jong-Un of North Korea in Singapore. It is a historic negotiation and there
is no way this President is not going to stand strong, number one. He is
not going to allow other people to suddenly take potshots at him hours
before that summit, and number two, Trudeau should have known better.”

        The New York Times
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(6/10, Weiland) reports Kudlow said Trump pulled out of the G7 joint
statement because a “betrayal” by Trudeau. “We joined the communiqué in
good faith,” Kudlow said. “You just don’t behave that way, OK.? It’s a
betrayal.” He added that Trump “had every right – every right – to push
back on this amateurish Trudeau scheme.” Navarro “echoed Mr. Kudlow’s
criticism” of Trudeau, “though in even harsher terms.” Navarro told [image:
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“There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in
bad-faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab
him in the back on the way out the door.” USA Today
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(6/10, Groppe) reports Navarro called Trudeau’s comments “nothing short of
an attack on our political system.” Bloomberg News
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(6/10, Wingrove) reports Navarro also “blamed Canada for the failure to
finalize a reboot of the North American Free Trade Agreement.” He told Fox,
“We’d have a great deal with Nafta by now if the Canadians would spend more
time at the bargaining table and less time lobbying Capitol Hill, and our
press and state governments here.”

        To the Wall Street Journal
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(6/10, Salama, Vieira, Munoz), Kudlow and Navarro’s comments represent an
escalation of personal attacks on Trudeau, and the Washington Post
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(6/10, Paletta, Achenbach) says the two advisers “echoed” Trump’s
“rhetorical assault on Trudeau, characteristically delivered on Twitter.” ABC
World News Tonight
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(6/10, story 2, 3:45, Muir) said that after G7 summit, Trump’s “relations
with America’s closest friends [are] now plunging to a new low.” NBC
Nightly News
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(6/10, story 4, 1:40, Holt) said US allies were left “stunned. Germans
announcing new tariffs. French President Macron accusing Trump of
incoherence and inconsistency. The Canadians defiant.” Bloomberg News
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(6/10, Niquette) reports “Trudeau’s office...said the what the Canadian
leader said on Saturday was nothing new.” In a written statement in
response to Trump’s tweets, Trudeau’s office said the Prime Minister’s
comments in public and in private with Trump were “nothing he hasn’t said
before” and that he was “focused on everything we accomplished here at the
G7 summit.”

        Politico
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(6/10, Temple-West) says Trudeau’s administration “punched back” on Sunday.
Asked repeatedly by reporters about Navarro’s “special place in hell”
remark, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said: “Canada does not
conduct its diplomacy through ad hominem attacks.” She added, “One thing
that I give thanks for is that I’m not responsible for explaining the
reasoning behind any comments made by the officials of any foreign
government.” Reuters
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(6/10, Hopkins) also reports Freeland’s comments, while the New York Times
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(6/10, Bilefsky, Porter) reports that “it takes a lot to rile” Canadians,
but “after President Trump’s parting shots against Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau...the country reacted with uncharacteristic outrage and defiance at
a best friend’s nastiness.”

        *US Allies Indignant After Summit “Blew Up In Spectacular Fashion.”
*The Washington Post
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(6/10, Witte, McAuley) reports that a day after the G7 summit “blew up in
spectacular fashion,” US allies “were indignant. They were defiant. Yet
they were hardly shocked by the outcome of a critical global gathering that
had gone worse than any that longtime foreign policy players had seen.” To
the US’ closest partners, “the pattern has become disturbingly familiar,”
and “for many in Europe, the question now is how best to preserve any kind
of multilateral cooperation.” The Hill
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(6/10, Sanchez) reports France on Sunday “took a jab” at Trump for his
comments at the G7 summit, saying that the country would stand by the
summit’s joint communique, despite Trump’s refusal to endorse it. In a
statement, Macron’s office said, “International cooperation cannot depend
on fits of anger or little words. Let us be serious and worthy of our
people.” Politico Europe
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(6/10, De La Baume) says France “took a swipe” at Trump, declaring that
international cooperation could not depend on “fits of anger” or “little
words.”

        Bloomberg News
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(6/10, Donahue) reports German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in an
interview Sunday that it’s “a bit depressing” that Trump reneged on the
G7’s joint statement. Said Merkel, “It means that we as Europe have to
stand up for our principles, potentially together with Japan and Canada.”
Merkel, Reuters
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(6/10, Nienaber) reports, also said Europe “will implement counter-measures
against US tariffs on steel and aluminum just like Canada.”

        John King said on CNN’s Inside Politics[image: Image removed by
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(6/10), “I don’t remember a Sunday morning like this where the Canadian
prime minister, the neighbor to the north, is furious at the President. The
President of France, the Chancellor of Germany, the allies left mad at the
President, angry at the President, thinking the President doesn’t get it.
And the President decided after he left to blow up a negotiated document
and essentially stoke a war with the six countries that are viewed as
America’s closest, most trusted allies.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(6/10, Bender, Nissenbaum, Gordon) runs an analysis of Trump’s negotiating
tactics, while Max Boot writes in his Washington Post
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(6/10, Boot) column that Trump’s “outbursts turned the summit into the G-6
vs. G-1,” and his aides “piled on, with...Kudlow accusing Trudeau of a
‘betrayal’ and Peter Navarro saying there’s a ‘special place in hell’ for
the Canadian prime minister. No US officials have ever spoken this way
about any US ally, ever. These are the kind of words that normally precede
military action.”

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(6/10), “The President is counting on two things. One is that the
Republican leadership and the Republican Congress will either stick with
him or at least keep their disgruntlements on the down low. And number two,
he is counting on the fact that the G6 – let’s call them that for the
moment – is not going to push back. They haven’t so far.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(6/10, Board) editorializes that while Trump takes pride in shaking things
up, as President he’ll be judged not on how much of former President
Obama’s legacy he dismantles but on how much he builds of his own.

        *Lawmakers Weigh In On Trump’s Decision Not To Sign Joint
Statement. *The New York Times
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(6/10, Weiland) reports Democrats “expressed alarm” Sunday at Trump’s
decision to back away from the joint G7 statement. Sen. Dianne Feinstein
(D) told CNN’s State of the Union
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“This wasn’t just with Trudeau. This is with our best allies. Not to sign a
statement of solidarity, which stands for everything that we stand for, is
a big mistake.”

        On CBS’ Face The Nation
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(6/10, Brennan), Sen. Ed Markey (D) affirmed his support for Sen. Bob
Corker’s (R) proposed measure that would give Congress greater authority on
US tariffs, saying, “Under Article One of the US Constitution that is a
prerogative of the Congress. Right now, the President is actually driving
our allies away from us as we need them even more, while welcoming in the
Russians. So I think the conversation which Senator Corker has raised is
something that on a bipartisan basis is welcome. I think it is time for the
United States Congress to begin once again to reassert its authority under
Article One to play a key role in the imposition of any tariffs.”

        USA Today
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(6/10, Groppe) reports Sen. John McCain (R) “pushed back Saturday against
Trump’s refusal to sign the G7 statement,” tweeting, “To our allies:
bipartisan majorities of Americans remain pro-free trade, pro-globalization
& supportive of alliances based on 70 years of shared values. Americans
stand with you, even if our president doesn’t.” On ABC’s This Week[image:
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(6/10, Stephanopoulos), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R), responding to McCain’s
comments, said, “I’m not so sure a majority of Americans believe that
globalization and free trade is in our interests. I believe that. John
McCain believes it. But the reason we’re having problems here at home,
Brexit, Italy, there’s a movement all over the world to look inward, not
outward. I think it’s a mistake. But I’m not so sure most Americans agree
with John McCain and Lindsey Graham.”

        The Daily Caller
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(6/10, Rodgers), meanwhile, reports Illinois Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D)
joined Trump “in blasting...Trudeau.” In a statement released Sunday,
Krishnamoorthi said, “While I have serious concerns about President Trump’s
approach to trade talks with Canada, Prime Minister Trudeau has placed our
trade relationship with Canada at risk by publicly feuding with President
Trump on the world stage.”

        Sen. Pat Toomey (R) said on Fox News’ The Journal Editorial
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(6/9), “What I think Congress needs to do is take this authority back. I
don’t think it was ever a good idea to hand it over to the Administration.
... The fact is the President is in my view misusing the national security
provisions as a way to promote a protectionist trade policy.”

        *Axios: Trump Told Macron EU Is “Worse” Than China On Trade. *According
to a report by Axios
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(6/10, Swan), when French President Emmanuel Macron visited Washington in
April, he and President Trump “had a tough conversation about trade that
foreshadowed the breakdown of transatlantic relations at the G7 summit.”
Citing an unnamed source, Axios reports Macron said to Trump, “Let’s work
together, we both have a China problem.” Trump responded that the EU is
“worse than China.”

        *United Steelworkers President: Metals Tariffs Crucial To National
Security. *Leo W. Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers, writes in USA
Today
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(6/10, Gerard) that the Administration’s metals tariffs are not “a simple
job-preservation measure. President Trump levied them to try to secure
sufficient domestic production capacity of these vital metals for defense –
for planes and tanks and for critical infrastructure.” Te Trump
Administration, he argues, “is right that they are crucial to security.”

        *NYTimes’ Leonhardt: “Trump Trying To Destroy” Western Alliance. *New
York Times
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(6/10) columnist David Leonhardt writes that Trump is “trying to destroy”
the alliance between the US and Western Europe. “If a president of the
United States were to sketch out a secret, detailed plan to break up the
Atlantic alliance, that plan would bear a striking resemblance to Trump’s
behavior.” Leonhardt goes on to argue that “whatever the reason, his
behavior requires a response that’s as serious as the threat. For American
voters, it means understanding the real stakes of this year’s midterm
elections. They are not merely a referendum on a tax cut, a heath-care plan
or a president’s unorthodox style. They are a referendum on American ideals
that are older than any of us.”
Foreign Policy
Trump Touts “Excitement In The Air” As He, Kim Arrive In Singapore For
Summit.

All three networks led their broadcasts Sunday night with reports on
President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s arrival in Singapore
ahead of Tuesday’s summit. Early Monday morning, the US President tweeted
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“Great to be in Singapore, excitement in the air!” NBC Nightly News[image:
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(6/10, lead story, 3:10, Holt) said the “world [is] holding its breath”
roughly 24 hours before the two leaders meet face-to-face in Singapore “in
search of common ground over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.” ABC
World News Tonight
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(6/10, lead story, 4:00, Muir) reported that the “eyes of the world now are
on the 36-year old dictator,” whose “new shift to diplomacy comes after a
year of escalating provocations.” Trump “says he’ll know immediately if Kim
is serious.” The CBS Weekend News
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(6/10, lead story, 3:15, Quijano) reported Trump told reporters Saturday
“that he was feeling very good about this upcoming meeting,” but Ben Tracy
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(6/10, story 2, 2:20, Quijano) that Trump “seems to be hedging his bets a
bit, saying that he may not reach a deal with Kim Jong-Un to give up his
nuclear weapons or that if he does, it could become a process that takes
some time.”

        USA Today
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(6/10, Jackson) reports Trump arrived Sunday “prepared to declare victory
in talks with nuclear-armed North Korea – regardless of what happens.” En
route, Trump tweeted
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“We have a chance to achieve a truly wonderful result for North Korea and
the World,” predicting
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that Kim “will work very hard to do something that has rarely been done
before ... Create peace and great prosperity for his land.” The Washington
Times
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(6/10, Miller) reports that when a “reporter shouted out a questions about
how Mr. Trump feels about the high-stakes summit,” he replied, “Very good.”
The Los Angeles Times
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(6/10, Kim) likewise says Trump “expressed confidence Saturday that the
summit would be a success.” CNBC
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(6/11, Chandran) reports on its website that Trump met with Singapore Prime
Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Monday, and said of the upcoming meeting with
Kim, “We’ve got a very interesting meeting in particular tomorrow, I think
things could work out very nicely.” Trump later tweeted
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a 26-second video clip of the meeting, writing, “Thank you Prime Minister
Lee Hsien Loong!”

        NBC Nightly News
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(6/10, story 2, 2:15, Holt) showed Secretary of State Pompeo saying that
Kim “has indicated to me personally that he is prepared to denuclearize,
that he understands that the current model doesn’t work,” but NBC’s Andrea
Mitchell reported that “skeptics are doubtful. ... A more realistic
outcome: the first diplomatic steps to ending Korean War.” Politico
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(6/10, Johnson) reports Pompeo “disputed the notion that the president is
moving the goalposts,” telling reporters Thursday that Trump “has always
understood that this was a process.”

        Kim, meanwhile, landed in Singapore hours ahead of Trump. According
to the AP
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(6/10, Klug, Lucey, Miller), Kim was greeted at the airport by Singapore’s
foreign minister, and later “smiled broadly Sunday evening as he met with”
Prime Minister Lee. Kim told Lee through an interpreter, “The entire world
is watching the historic summit between (North Korea) and the United States
of America, and thanks to your sincere efforts...we were able to complete
the preparations for the historic summit.” Meanwhile, US and North Korean
officials “are set to meet Monday morning in Singapore to make final
preparations for Tuesday’s meeting.”

        Politico
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(6/10, Staff) and Breitbart
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(6/10, Spiering) report Trump was also greeted by Singapore’s Foreign
Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, and according to the New York Post
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(6/10, Moore), Trump is expected to meet with Lee on Monday. The Washington
Post
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(6/10, Fifield) reports Trump and Kim are scheduled to meet face-to-face
Tuesday morning, and the Daily Caller
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(6/10, Pickrell) says the talks will take place at the Capella Hotel on
Sentosa Island. The New York Times
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(6/10, Rich) says Trump, “who has declared that he did not need to prepare
for the two-day meeting, will pit his negotiating skills against the leader
of one of the world’s most isolated countries.”

        Reuters
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(6/10, Holland) reports Trump was accompanied by Pompeo, National Security
Adviser Bolton, Chief of Staff Kelly and Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.
Among those traveling with Kim are Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and Kim Yong
Chol, “a close aide of Kim who has been instrumental in the diplomacy that
culminated in Tuesday’s summit.” Kim Yo Jong, leader Kim’s younger sister,
“was also spotted in his delegation.”

        According to unnamed sources, the Wall Street Journal
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(6/10, Cheng, Jeong, Wong) reports Kim is scheduled to depart Singapore at
2 p.m. Tuesday, just five hours after the summit is set to begin. Trump,
meanwhile, is set to leave Wednesday morning. Bloomberg News
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(6/10, Talev, Olorunnipa, Jacobs) says that “depending on how the talks go,
Trump has signaled the summit could collapse within minutes or stretch into
future meetings and perhaps even include a follow-up encounter at
Mar-a-Lago.” The Washington Times
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(6/10, Miller) reports the Korean Central News Agency said the summit would
address “wide-ranging and profound views on the issue of establishing new
DPRK-US relations, the issue of building a permanent and durable
peace-keeping mechanism on the Korean Peninsula, the issue of realizing the
denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and other issues of mutual
concern.”

        The Washington Post
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(6/10, Nakamura) reports on the crowds gathered in Singapore, where ABC
World News Tonight
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(6/10, story 8, 1:40, Muir) said “so many people [are] lining the
streets...for glimpses of the two leaders. ... The security presence is
enormous.” Meanwhile, in South Korea, “this group gathered to pray for
peace ahead of the meeting, holding these signs of a unified Korean
Peninsula.” NBC Nightly News
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(6/10, story 3, 1:30, Holt) Richard Engel reported from Seoul where the
summit “is seen as a matter of life and death.” Engel added that
“everyone’s hoping that this summit will be successful. There’s talk of
peace. And I don’t think there’s anywhere in the world where they’re more
optimistic, more hopeful that Donald Trump will be able to pull it out. But
there is also this concern because they have so much at stake. If this
summit goes badly, then are we once again in the state where war is on the
table?”

        The Washington Times
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(6/10, Taylor) reports that the “stakes are so high” for Tuesday’s talks
that the “national security community is braced for the possibility of a
rapid spiral toward nuclear brinkmanship if the talks between the two men
turn sour.” An AP
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(6/10, Miller, Lucey) analysis of the talks says Trump’s “seat-of-the-pants
foreign policy is facing its toughest test yet as he attempts...to
personally broker an end to North Korea’s nuclear program.” The” impulsive
American president, who just this weekend sowed chaos within the Western
alliance, is set to face his match on the global stage as he prepares to
meet Kim” on Tuesday.

        Peter Baker writes for the New York Times
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(6/10) that the President over the weekend “escalated a bitter clash with
some of America’s closest allies,” leaving him “estranged from America’s
partners at the very moment he is about to stride onto the most important
world stage he has assumed since taking office. Aides attributed his
outburst over the weekend to his feeling undercut as he prepared to meet
with...Kim...while critics said he had stiff-armed his friends at the
expense of a unified front.” Regardless, Baker says the “rupture with other
major powers was sure to shadow the session between the two in Singapore on
Tuesday.” USA Today
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(6/10, Jackson) similarly says Trump was making “last-minute preparations
Monday for his meeting with Kim...in the shadow of his blow-up with western
allies at the G-7 summit — a good sign to his backers, not so good to
others.”

        *Trump Reviews Intel File On Kim Ahead Talks. *Axios
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(6/10, Swan) reports that over the past ten years, “allied intelligence
agencies have pieced together a profile of the young Kim Jong-un from
extensive interviews with teachers, students, food preparers, and other
staff at the elite Swiss boarding school that Kim attended during his
adolescence, according to a source” who reviewed the files. According to
Axios, “In his intelligence briefings to prepare for his historic summit in
Singapore, President Trump has shown intense interest in the personality
and quirks of the reclusive Kim.”

        *Lawmakers Weigh In On Talks. *The Washington Post
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(6/10, Cunningham) reports that “two top senators indicated Sunday that
they generally agree on what a good nuclear deal with North Korea might
look like, but they differed sharply on whether to back it up with a
military Plan B.” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R) said on ABC’s “This Week” that
he’s “100 percent” pleased with a letter top Senate Democrats sent
President Trump last week insisting that any deal with North Korea must
include a permanent dismantling of the country’s nuclear and
ballistic-missile programs. But Graham “also called on his colleagues to go
a step further and authorize use of military force if diplomatic routes
fail.” Sen. Robert Menendez (D), however, “said he’s not ready to back a
congressional Authorization for Use of Military Force” until he is
confident “the path to peace really isn’t obtainable” without military
action.

        Asked on ABC’s This Week
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(6/10, Stephanopoulos) about Trump’s mindset going into the summit, Graham
said, “I think he’s very much ready. I think what he’ll convey to North
Korea is he wants a peaceful resolution to the nuclear threat as well as to
end the Korean War. The goal is to eliminate their nuclear missile program,
not contain it. Do it in a win-win fashion.” Graham added that there are
“three outcomes: Peace, where we have a win-win solution; military force,
where we devastate the North Korean regime and stop their program by force;
or to capitulate, like we have done in the past. And Donald Trump is not
going to capitulate. So there’s really only two options. Peace or
war.” The Washington
Times
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(6/10, Howell) also reports Graham’s remarks.

        On ABC’s This Week
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(6/10, Stephanopoulos), Menendez said, “We have to give a chance at peace.
That’s why we outlined very clearly what a successful agreement would be. A
complete, irreversible, effort at the denuclearization of the Korean
Peninsula. Pretty much what the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said
before the Senate Relations Committee when I asked him questions, as well
as the National Security Adviser, Ambassador Bolton. Our standard is trying
to define clearly what success is. Getting a deal with North Korea is not
the difficult part. In fact, three administrations, President Clinton,
President Bush, President Obama – have acquired some form of a deal only to
ultimately have them fail.”

        Asked on CBS’ Face The Nation
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(6/10, Brennan), what a deal should entail to gain congressional support
for the lifting of sanctions against North Korea, Sen. Ed Markey (D) said,
“The President first of all is going to have to extract from Kim a
definition of what denuclearization means. Right now, there is a vast gulf
between what the United States and North Korea believe that word means. On
our side, we believe it means a removal of all nuclear weapons and delivery
capacity on the Korean peninsula. Kim does not actually agree with that. We
would also want an inventory of all of their nuclear weapons sites, all of
their ballistic missile sites, all of their development, manufacturing,
research facilities to be made public and for there to be a final way of
ensuring that there is a dismantlement of those facts which is taking place
again on a final basis.”

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(6/10, Tapper), “North Korea is on its way to becoming a clear and present
danger to the United States. I have watched its nuclear programs as
carefully as I could as a member of the Intelligence Committee. They have
done six nuclear tests, they have developed a missile system, they probably
have up to 60, maybe more nuclear weapons. They are trying to fit a nuclear
warhead on an intercontinental ballistic missile. They have not tested that
yet. But when they do, it gives them the ability to hit the United States.
It is a government that is not within the community of nations. It is an
isolated government, unpredictable, with what appears to be a growing
nuclear prowess. I think this sends a lot of danger signals. I think the
President does have a chance to put in motion meaningful dialogue.”

        *NYTimes: China “Jittery” Ahead Of Summit. *The New York Times
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(6/10, Perlez) reports that in the “sudden rush of diplomacy involving
North Korea, China has appeared to have the upper hand, hosting the North
Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, twice before his long-anticipated Singapore
summit meeting with President Trump even begins. Yet as Mr. Kim prepares to
finally meet Mr. Trump in Singapore on Tuesday, some analysts say Beijing
appears to be getting a sudden case of the jitters.” Analysts say Chinese
leaders, “who are unused to being on the outside looking in, are growing
anxious about whether they can keep” Pyongyang “in its current orbit around
China. Leaders in Beijing are worried, experts say, that Mr. Kim might try
to counterbalance China’s influence by embracing the United States.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(6/10, Morrongiello), meanwhile, reports that Kim arrived Sunday in
Singapore on “a Boeing 747 lent to him by the Chinese government.”

        *North Koreans Largely Unaware Of Summit. *The AP
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(6/10, Talmadge) reports that “with all the international attention focused
on Singapore and the historic summit” between Trump and Kim, “most North
Koreans are still largely in the dark about the momentous — and potentially
life-changing — events that are about to take place.” State-run media has
reported that the two leaders plan to meet, “but has offered few specifics,
including where and when.”

        The Washington Post
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(6/10, Murphy), meanwhile, reports that ahead of Tuesday’s summit North
Korean defectors are “considering a question that until recently seemed
foolish to ask: Could they one day return home?”

        *NASIC Commander Says North Korean Missiles Could Reach Continental
US. *David Martin reported on CBS’ 60 Minutes[image: Image removed by
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(6/10) that the Singapore summit “is surely one of the greatest high-wire
acts in diplomatic history – two unpredictable leaders meeting...to
negotiate the total elimination of what, just last year, was considered the
gravest threat facing the United States.” While President Trump “is
demanding the complete dismantlement of North Korea’s nuclear weapons
program,” Kim Jong-un sees “the nuclear warheads and the missiles that
would carry them” as “his country’s most valuable possession.” Martin added
that National Air and Space Intelligence Center commander Sean Larkin says
“the North Korean threat went to a whole new level” last summer. Larkin:
“They demonstrated the ability that they could reach the continental United
States.”
Putin Welcomes Meeting With Trump, Says Russia Not Interested In G7.

The New York Times
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(6/10, Higgins) reports Russian President Vladimir Putin said “Sunday
during a visit to China that he would meet President Trump ‘as soon as the
American side is ready’ but insisted Russia was in no hurry to win
readmission to the Group of 7 nations.” Putin “said the G-7, which ended a
cantankerous summit meeting on Saturday in Canada, represented fewer people
and had less economic heft than the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.” He
told reporters, “True, the seven are still richer in per capita income, as
they say, but the S.C.O. economies are larger, and their population is much
larger, too – half the world’s population.” On the issue of a meeting with
Trump, Putin commented, “The president of the United States has repeatedly
said that he considers this meeting expedient,” and “I agree that this is
indeed the case.”

        The New York Post
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(6/10, Connelly) reports Putin said many of Trump’s decisions deserve
criticism, but “there’s one circumstance that I’ve mentioned previously:
Trump keeps the promises that he made in his campaign,” and one such
promise “was to improve Russian-American relations. I hope that this also
takes place.” He continued, “At any rate, we are ready for this. I believe
that the ball is in America’s court.” The Post notes that Kremlin
“spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Saturday that Putin and Trump
discussed the prospects for a meeting in a March phone call and named
Vienna as a possible location.”

        *Kudlow Defends Trump’s Suggestion That G7 Consider Allowing Russia
To Rejoin. *On CNN’s State Of The
Union
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(6/10, Tapper), White House Trade Adviser Larry Kudlow defended Trump’s
comments suggesting the G7 members consider letting Russia rejoin. Kudlow
said, “Russia was doing very bad things years ago when they were part of
the G8. So you can argue that both sides. President Trump is just throwing
it out there for consideration. There is nothing wrong with that. Dan Coats
is right on the other hand. Russia has a record that is an arm long when it
comes to violating sanctions, damaging people, invading the Crimea, trying
to threaten the rest of Eastern Europe. So, sure, but the two are not mush
mutually exclusive.”

        On CBS’ Face The Nation
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(6/10, Brennan), Kudlow said, “I think Dan Coats was correct in his
accusations, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do business with them, okay?
They are a part of the world story. They are a power. They are a military
power. They are not an economic power, and can we switch back, Margaret.
Look, Trump spend two days, President Trump spent two days, this is
something dear to my heart, talking to these ministers, these heads of
state about free trade, ending tariffs, ending tariff barriers, ending
subsidies, stopping trade wars, moving towards fairness and unfair trading
practices, we are the fastest growing economy in the G7 and he has got a
vision here. He is probably going to be the best trade reformer in several
decades the world has seen.”

        *Navarro Defers To Other Administration Officials On Russia G7
Comments. *On Fox News Sunday
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(6/10, Wallace), White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro was asked about
President Trump’s suggestion that the G7 should consider letting Russia
rejoin. Navarro said, “That one is above my pay grade. Ambassador Bolton,
Mike Pompeo, the President himself deal with issues like that but look
what’s happening now in Singapore. The President is willing to talk to Kim
Jong-Un in the hope that we can deal with denuclearization on the Korean
peninsula. He is willing to talk with any world leader. I think the
philosophy here is that when we have discussions with world leaders we
should get everybody together so that we can basically hammer some of these
problems out.”

        *Lawmakers Object To Trump’s Call To Reintroduce Russia To G7.
*The Washington
Times
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(6/10, Howell) reports that on Sunday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) “rejected
President Trump’s call for the Group of Seven nations summit to let Russia
back in.” She told CNN’s State Of
The Union
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(6/10, Tapper), “I think not only did they seize Crimea, but they also
interfered in the election” there and in the US, which she described as “a
sacrosanct territory.” She added that she believes Putin “gave instructions
to the intelligence services of that country to do just that, and mix it up
in the election, that is unacceptable. So as far as most of us are
concerned, Russia has not yet apologized. Russia has not yet said this will
never happen again. So I do not agree on this point either.”

        Politico
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(6/10, Temple-West) reports Sens. Jeff Flake (R), Lindsey Graham (R), John
McCain (R), and Ben Sasse (R) also objected to Trump’s suggestion. Graham
said Sunday that the move “would be a mistake,” adding, “There is no way I
would ever agree to give them that legitimacy.” Graham told [image: Image
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(6/10, Stephanopoulos), “The Soviet Union may have fallen. But the evil it
represents is alive and well in Putin’s Russia. He’s no friend to the
United States. He’s dismembering democracies everywhere and trying to do so
in our own backyard.”

        *Rice Derides Trump’s Russia Remarks As “Disgraceful.” *The Hill
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(6/10, Samuels) reports former President Obama’s national security adviser,
Susan Rice, “blasted President Trump on Sunday for suggesting Russia be
readmitted to the G7.” She said the President made “a disgraceful
statement” when he suggested that Obama “allowed Russia to take Crimea.”
She asserted, “Rather than understand Russia is our adversary, Russia had
taken on behavior that is absolutely reprehensible… for the president of
the United States to suggest all that is forgotten, that we are together,
that we are fine with one country annexing another country’s sovereign
territory is outrageous.”

        CNN Inside Politics
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(6/10) chief national correspondent John King conceded Russia’s annexation
of Crimea “did happen during the Obama Administration and maybe he thinks
President Obama should have started a war at the time. You can have a
debate about did Obama Administration did they react tough enough, but the
idea that that happened in the last Administration, therefore ‘never mind,
they can come back in.’”
Rouhani Criticizes US “Unilateralism” Over Nuclear Deal.

Reuters
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(6/10) reports Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday “criticized” what
he called US “unilateralism” in withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and
“said he appreciated efforts by China and Russia to maintain the
agreement.” Rouhani told the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization, “The US efforts to impose its policies on others are
expanding as a threat to all. The recent example of such unilateralism and
the defiance of the decisions of the international community by the US
government is its withdrawal” from the nuclear deal. Chinese President Xi
Jinping, speaking after Rouhani, expressed “regret” that Washington had
withdrawn from the deal. China, he added, “is willing to work with Russia
and other countries to preserve” the deal.
Navarro: Administration Taking “Three Strikes You’re Out” Approach To ZTE.

Reuters
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(6/10, Price) reports White House Director of Trade Policy Peter Navarro
threatened to “shut down” the Chinese telecommunications company ZTE Corp’s
US operations “if they do one more additional” action in violation of US
law. Reuters notes ZTE agreed last week “to pay a $1 billion fine to the
United States and to overhaul its leadership in order to end a crippling
ban on the Shenzhen-headquartered firm from buying parts from U.S.
suppliers and allowing it to get back into business.” Politico
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(6/10, Palmer) says Navarro was “responding to criticism on Capitol Hill
about a new Commerce Department deal to put the company back in business.”
Navarro told Fox News Sunday
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(6/10, Wallace) that ZTE is “a bad actor,” and that President Trump’s
decision to allow the company to continue doing business in the US was “a
personal favor to the president of China as a way of showing some goodwill
for bigger efforts, such as the [nuclear summit with North Korea] in
Singapore.” Navarro reiterated, “Everybody understands that in this
Administration. They are on notice. We will have monitors inside the
company. They are changing their management and they’re paying us $1.5
billion in order to continue.”

        In an analysis, the New York Times
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(6/10, Yuan) says “ZTE’s near-collapse has shaken tech entrepreneurs,
investors and ordinary Chinese people alike.” The Times explains that
China’s “technological boom” had “kept many from asking hard questions”
about its foundation, but the ZTE incident revealed that the nation’s
“technology boom, it turns out, has been largely built on top of Western
technology.” Many in China, including investors and “cheerleaders of the
Chinese tech scene,” had “found themselves in a feedback loop of their own
making,” as the “tech boom fits perfectly into Beijing’s grand narrative of
a national rejuvenation.” The ZTE incident cast that progress “into doubt,
and even some of the smartest people in the technology world are asking how
they got it so wrong.”

        *Xi Rejects “Selfish, Shortsighted” Trade Policies. *Reuters
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(6/10, Ross) reports Chinese President Xi Jinping said Sunday that his
country “reject[s] selfish, shortsighted, closed, narrow policies, (we)
uphold World Trade Organisation rules, support a multi-lateral trade
system, and building an open world economy.” Xi added that China
“discard[s] Cold War thinking, group confrontation; we object to acts of
getting one’s own absolute security at the cost of other countries’
security.” Reuters notes Xi “did not mention the United States during a
speech at a summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO),
a regional security bloc led by China and Russia,” but his remarks came
just “hours after Trump said he was backing out of the Group of Seven
communique, thwarting what appeared to be a fragile consensus on a trade
dispute between Washington and its top allies.”
Assad Alleges West Fueling Civil War, Hoping To Overthrow Him.

The AP
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(6/10) reports Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview published
Sunday “that the West is fueling the devastating war in his country...with
the aim of toppling him.” Assad told The Mail
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on Sunday “that Western nations have lied about chemical attacks in Syria
and supported terrorists groups there.” The Syrian leader also “reiterated
his long-held position that the uprising against his rule was part of a
plot to remove a leader that did not go along with Western policies in the
region.” Said Assad, “The whole approach toward Syria in the West is, ‘we
have to change this government; we have to demonize this president, because
they don’t suit our policies anymore.’ They tell lies, they talk about
chemical weapons. They talk about the bad president killing good people,
freedom and peaceful demonstrations.”
Fire Engulfs Warehouse Storing Iraq Election Ballots Amid Recount.

The Washington Post
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(6/10, El-Ghobashy, Salim) reports that a fire “engulfed a depot on Sunday
where ballots from Iraq’s national elections were being stored ahead of a
full manual recount, the latest setback for a process that had already been
mired in accusations of fraud and other violations.” Saad Maan, a spokesman
for Iraq’s Interior Ministry, said the fire had broken out in a Baghdad
warehouse where electronic voting machines and some ballot boxes were
stored. The cause of the fire is unknown, he said, and will be
investigated. The Post says there are “fears that the destruction of
ballots further risks the legitimacy of last month’s election.” Reuters
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(6/10, Aboulenein) reports Iraq’s outgoing parliament speaker Salim
al-Jabouri said Sunday that the election “should be repeated” in the wake
of the fire. “The crime of burning ballot box storage warehouses in the
Rusafa area is a deliberate act, a planned crime, aimed at hiding instances
of fraud and manipulation of votes, lying to the Iraqi people and changing
their will and choices,” Jabouri said in a statement. “We call for the
election to be repeated.”
Cuba: Cause Of Illness In US Diplomats Remains Mystery.

Reuters
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(6/10) reports Cuba said Sunday it “remained baffled by health issues
affecting US diplomats,” after State Department “reported two Cuba-based
functionaries had symptoms similar to previous cases that began in late
2016.” On Friday, the Department said the cases were “similar to those of
24 diplomats and family members taken ill through 2017.” It also issued a
travel warning for its citizens. The Cuban foreign ministry said in a
statement Sunday that those actions politically motivated, pointing out
that “after more than a year of investigations by Cuba and the United
States...there are no credible hypotheses nor scientific conclusions that
justify the actions taken by the US government against Cuba.” The AP
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(6/10, Weissenstein) reports that in the latest episode, Cuba said US
officials “reported on May 29 that a female embassy official had reported
experiencing ‘health symptom’ after hearing the sounds in her home two days
earlier.” Cuba said it sent investigators to the home “who found no
potential source of a sound and were not granted access to the official.”
State Department officials said Friday “they had pulled two workers from
Cuba and were testing them for possible brain injury.”
Domestic Policy
NYTimes: Kelly Calls White House “A Miserable Place To Work.”

The New York Times
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(6/10, Haberman, Rogers) reports that “several high-profile [White House]
aides, including John F. Kelly, the president’s chief of staff, and Joe
Hagin, a deputy of Mr. Kelly’s, are said to be thinking about how much
longer they can stay.” According to “a person with direct knowledge of the
comment,” Kelly last week told senators that the White House was “a
miserable place to work.” The Times cites “several West Wing advisers” who
said that Kelly is “beaten down.”
Giuliani Says Comey Could Be Prosecuted As Result Of DOJ IG Report.

The New York Post
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(6/10, Moore) reports that President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy
Giuliani, said in a radio interview Sunday that former FBI Director James
Comey could face prosecution for his handling of the Hillary Clinton email
investigation based on the report from Justice Department Inspector General
Michael Horowitz, which is expected to be released Thursday. Speaking on
John Catsimatidis’ radio show, Giuliani said, “I think the report of
Horowitz, the IG, and the Justice Department will confirm that Comey acted
improperly with regard to the Hillary Clinton investigation. ... The first
thing we are going to get is a report from Inspector General Horowitz on
Comey’s handling of Hillary, which I think is going to be very very
critical of Comey, as it should be. ... Comey, really, has a chance of
being prosecuted as a result of, but we’ll see.”

        *Giuliani: Mueller Shouldn’t Try To Interfere In Midterms. *In the
same interview, Giuliani “warned” Special Counsel Robert Mueller not to
interfere in the midterm elections, Breitbart
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(6/10, Poor) reports. Giuliani “questioned the duration of Mueller’s probe
and set September 1 as a deadline given November’s midterm elections.” He
said, “Just how long [Mueller] think he can have this job? ... I mean, it’s
supposed to be a temporary one. He should get it done by September 1, and I
say that because elections are coming up. He shouldn’t do a Comey and try
to interfere with the elections. ... Whatever he’s got, he should put up or
shut up. ... We’re very prepared to rebut it all. We’re also prepared to
show how this is not a fair and impartial investigation. The people
conducting it aren’t capable of that.”

        *Grassley Pushes DOJ To Provide Flynn Materials. *The Washington
Examiner
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(6/10, York) reports that in February 2017, Senate Judiciary Committee
Chairman Chuck Grassley and ranking Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein “asked
the Justice Department to turn over the transcript of fired national
security adviser Michael Flynn’s infamous call with the Russian ambassador,
plus other documents related to the Flynn case.” The request was refused
and last month, Grassley “repeated his demand for the Flynn transcript” and
other materials, which the Department again refused. In a May 29, 2018
letter, assistant attorney general Stephen Boyd referred to the Flynn case
as a “pending criminal prosecution,” and “said turning over evidence to
Congress could create ‘the reality or appearance of political
interference.’” Grassley’s “patience appears to be running thin.” In a June
6 response, he wrote, “The department’s reply ... is insufficient. ...
Simply disclosing facts to the committee could not possibly ‘interfere’
with the case at this late date.”

        *Hemingway: White House Must Clean Up Controversy Over Trump Tower
Meeting Letter. *Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist said on Fox News
MediaBuzz
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(6/10), “Last year [White House press secretary Sarah Sanders] specifically
said that Trump didn’t dictate” the letter concerning the 2016 Trump Tower
meeting, but Trump’s attorneys’ letter “says he did. That is something that
needs to be dealt with. No one begrudges her for having had false
information and it’s not even a big deal whether the President dictated
this letter or not. But something needs to be done to restore credibility
when you have said something that’s not true and I am surprised that they
don’t have a better way of cleaning that up.”

        *Ferrechio: Trump Administration Gets More Media Scrutiny,
Criticism Than Any Other. *Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Examiner said
on Fox News MediaBuzz
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(6/10), “I don’t think there was any credible way for her to get out of
this. Can you imagine if she said, ‘Oh, I was given bad information.’ No
way. I think that the press treats his administration with far more
scrutiny, more criticism, more gotcha, gotcha, gotcha than we have seen in
forever. It’s created a very defensive posture clearly for Sarah and the
rest of the crew there. You can’t blame them.”
DOJ Seizure Of NYTimes’ Reporter’s Records Sparks Concern Among Journalists.

The New York Times
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(6/10, Grynbaum) reports that the Justice Department’s seizure of phone and
email records from Times journalist Ali Watkins “raised concerns that the
Trump administration was adopting a highly aggressive approach, continuing
a crackdown that ramped up in the Obama years.” While former Attorney
General Eric Holder’s Justice Department “obtained private records from
reporters at Fox News and The Associated Press,” amid “criticism from the
news media, Mr. Holder strengthened rules meant to minimize the seizure of
journalists’ data.” However, journalists and lawyers said the handling of
Watkins’ case “was a sign that those guardrails might be on their way out,
under a president who relishes taunting the press.”

        *Gaetz Says Sessions No Longer “Cowering” Before Deep State.
*The Washington
Examiner
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(6/10, Chaitin) reports that Rep. Matt Gaetz on Saturday cheered Attorney
General Jeff Sessions after a former top Senate aide “was indicted by a
federal grand jury and arrested last week for giving false statements to
FBI agents during their investigation into leaks of classified information
to the media.” Gaetz told Fox News Watters’ World[image: Image removed by
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“It appears the attorney general has shifted to fully caffeinated coffee.
... Maybe he took some of those supplements for low T, because he’s now
actively pursuing the important work we need the Justice Department to
pursue to stop the leaks instead of cowering in the corner to the deep
state.”
Immigrant Families Leaving US Rather Than Risk Separation.

Mireya Villarreal reported on the CBS Weekend News[image: Image removed by
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(6/10, story 6, 2:05, Quijano) that Washington Gov. Jay Inslee “is fighting
to stop an immigration policy that he says unfairly removes children from
their parents who cross the board illegally, some who are seeking asylum.”
The policy “is meant to act as a deterrent for people attempting to come
into the country illegally.” DHS Secretary Nielsen: “That is why they are
separated, they are breaking the law. The US says if you break the law, you
go to jail and are separated from your family.” Villarreal added there are
“an estimated 54,000 American children living in Mexico. Their situation
has become a byproduct of the immigration debate, families being deported
or forced to leave because they are afraid of being separated.”

        *Feinstein Measure Would Reform Criteria Used To Separate Immigrant
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(6/10, Tapper), Sen. Dianne Feinstein commented on legislation she proposed
to reform the methods by which illegal immigrant children might be
separated from their parents. She said, “We have written a bill. We have 31
co-sponsors. I hope we’ll be able to get it out of the Judiciary Committee.
It has been introduced. And it would prohibit the taking of children in
this manner and then it would provide a number of criteria to remove a
child, what you’d have to have present.”

        *USA Today: “Zero Tolerance” Policy Resulting In Family Separation.
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(6/10, Jervis) reports on the effects of the Administration “zero
tolerance” policy for illegal border crossers and the “family separation
resulting from it.” USA Today focuses on Honduran-national Genin Rodas, who
was recently separated from his five-year-old son while in custody. Roads
was “reunited with his son after four days,” but USA Today says the policy
is “raising questions of legality and ethics by legal experts and immigrant
advocates.” US officials “have not released exact numbers on children being
held or whether parents are being deported without their children,” but one
federal public defender “estimated there are more than 400 children being
held in the McAllen area alone.”

        *Washington State Lawmakers Criticize Border Family Separations. *The
Washington Post
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(6/10, Wang) reports on a gathering of public officials and lawmakers from
Washington State on Saturday that “denounced the Trump administration...for
its policy of separating immigrant families at the Mexican border, accusing
the administration of causing undue trauma to children and parents who
might be legally seeking asylum in the United States.” The Post says that,
despite Seattle’s distance from the southern US border, the debate over the
issue “hit closer to home for the Evergreen State after dozens of
immigrants were transferred last week to the Federal Detention Center in
SeaTac, near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.” Gov. Jay Inslee spoke
to the crowd and said, “We’ve gathered here to say one central message:
Cruelty to children should not be part of American policy.” State Attorney
General Bob Ferguson also “said Washington state officials were looking
into whether they had grounds to sue the federal government to halt the
family separations.”

        *DOJ Releases Documents In Census Citizenship Question Lawsuit. *The
New York Times
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(6/9, Robbins, Benner) reported DOJ released Commerce Department documents
on Friday in relation to a lawsuit over adding a citizenship question to
the 2020 Census. The Times says the documents “show lobbying by
anti-immigration hard-liners for the question’s inclusion, and resistance
on the part of some census officials to asking it.” Kansas Secretary of
State Kris Kobach sent an email to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in July
2017, in which he “urged the addition of the question, saying that
including undocumented immigrants in the decennial count of the United
States population would, among other things, lead to the problem ‘that
aliens who do not actually ‘reside’ in the United States are still counted
for congressional apportionment purposes.’” The Times adds that the pages
released from the Commerce Department “show a chorus of warnings from
scientists, immigrant groups and lawmakers,” but also “includ[e] letters of
support from others who endorse the question, including Representative Bob
Goodlatte, Republican of Virginia.”

        *Immigrant Arrested While Delivering Food To Military Base Receives
Reprieve. *The Washington Post
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(6/10, Selk) reports the immigrant who was arrested at an Army base
delivering food earlier this month was granted a “last-minute reprieve”
from deportation. The case of Pablo Villavicencio “has become a live chip
in the political fight over deportations since he was arrested on a
years-old immigration warrant less than two weeks ago.” The court order on
Saturday “temporarily halting Villavicencio’s immediate removal to Ecuador
means his allies, including New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Democratic
lawmakers, will have at least another month to try to free him from federal
custody.” The judge “ordered the federal government to submit reasons
Villavicencio should be immediately deported and scheduled a hearing for
July 20, buying the jailed Ecuadoran and his supporters a few more weeks to
look for a way to keep him in the country.” The Post adds that
Villavicencio entered the US illegally in 2008, and was ordered removed by
an immigration judge in 2010.
Administration Proposes Emergency Executive Orders To Prop Up Coal, Nuclear
Plants.

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(6/10, story 9, 1:45, Holt) that in a memo leaked to Bloomberg, the
Administration proposed using emergency executive orders “to prop up
America’s faltering coal and nuclear power plants, a promise planted on the
campaign trail.” The plan would “keep those plants open by forcing the
power industry to buy from them for the next two years instead of from
newer, cleaner and cheaper options, like natural gas.” The White House
“cites national security, saying shut downs of coal and nuclear plants
would make the power grid less resilient coming to natural disasters and
intentional attacks but one of the nation’s largest grid operators said
there’s no threat to the system’s reliability or need for such drastic
action. A wide group of industry experts of natural gas to renewable energy
condemns the President’s plan, saying it undermines the free market and
raises the costs to customers.”
Economists Doubt Job Creation, Wage Impact Stemming From Corporate Tax Cuts.

The New York Times
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(6/10, Tankersley) reports that three “prominent economists,” Gabriel
Zucman, of the University of California, Berkeley, and Thomas Torslov and
Ludvig Wier of the University of Copenhagen, have concluded that the recent
corporate tax cuts “are unlikely to stimulate the level of job creation and
wage growth that the Trump administration has promised...because high tax
rates were not pushing much investment out of the United States in the
first place.” The researchers write that “multinational corporations based
in the United States and other advanced economies have sheltered nearly 40
percent of their profits in tax havens like Bermuda, depriving their
domestic governments of tax revenues and enriching wealthy shareholders.”
While the research “does not imply that corporate tax cuts will not help
companies or lead to at least some new investment” it “challenges the
magnitude of the increase that President Trump and congressional
Republicans promised.”
Puerto Rican Day Parade Includes Reminders Of Hurricane Maria’s Destruction.

The New York Times
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(6/10, Newman) reports that as thousands of Puerto Ricans marched in the
annual Puerto Rican Day Parade in Manhattan, there was a different version
of the Puerto Rican flag on display: “black and white instead of red, white
and blue, stripped of color to remind spectators — and anyone in Washington
who might have been watching — of the parade’s grim backdrop: the
destruction and continuing aftermath of Hurricane Maria, and what many view
as the federal government’s inadequate response to the disaster.” In
addition, t-shirts and banners bore the number 4,645, “representing a
recent estimate by public-health experts on the hurricane’s death toll on
the island, far in excess of the official death toll.” The parade was “part
party, part protest march, part memorial, part pep rally, sometimes all in
one person.”
Cancer Research
NCI To Provide $10 Million For Clinical Trials Network, Community Oncology
Research.

The Cancer Letter
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(6/8, Ong) reported the NCI will provide “an additional $10 million to
support trials run with the National Clinical Trials Network and the NCI
Community Oncology Research Program, Norman ‘Ned’ Sharpless said in his
first appearance as NCI director at the annual meeting of the American
Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago.” He explained, “NCI’s major
efforts with regards to large clinical trials are largely supported through
our clinical trials networks like the National Clinical Trials Network. ...
The majority of this funding will be used to augment per patient
reimbursement rates at 180 sites that treat adult or pediatric cancers.”
Sharpless listed the four priority areas for the NCI as being “investing in
basic science, growing the workforce, leveraging Big Data, and modernizing
clinical trials,” the piece added. The article also included the text of
his remarks.
Cancer Doctors Worry “Right To Try” May Take Advantage Of Desperate
Patients.

Bloomberg News
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(6/8, Cortez) reported the consensus emerging from the recent American
Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago was that cancer patients
may most benefit from the recently-passed “Right to Try” law, but “don’t
expect the floodgates to open.” Bloomberg explained, “A key component of
Right to Try is to allow dying patients who ran out of options, through
their doctors, to directly ask drugmakers for access to medicines under
development, eliminating the Food and Drug Administration from the
process,” but some physicians worried “that desperate patients may be taken
advantage of by unscrupulous groups or clinics that could experiment
without oversight from the FDA.”
Scientists Say New Non-Addictive Pain Killer Is More Powerful Than Morphine.

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(6/10, story 9, 2:25, Quijano) that “three Harvard-trained scientists
believe they’ve developed a breakthrough, a non-narcotic pain killer 50
times more powerful than morphine but it’s non-addictive.” They believe
“the answer lies in their molecule Blue 181,” which “works by clinging to a
different receptor in the central nervous system than opioids, eliminating
the narcotic high, abuse and dependence risks.” The team at Blue
Therapeutics “says it could be five years or so before the drug makes it
through clinical trials to see if they confirm its claims.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“The Everyday Toll Of Gun Violence In America.”* An interactive New York
Times
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(6/10) editorial says mass killings, like the 2016 Pulse nightclub
shooting, “garner more attention because they are, by definition, so
horrific,” but they “represent just a fraction of the nation’s gun
violence.” The Times says “most harm done by guns does not prompt such
national self-examination.”
Washington Post.

*“Abiy Ahmed Pulls Off An Astonishing Turnaround For Ethiopia.”* The Washington
Post
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(6/10) editorializes that the “rush of developments” under Ethiopian Prime
Minister Abiy Ahmed’s leadership, including the decision to lift a state of
emergency that left the nation “trapped in a cycle of unrest, repression
and more unrest,” signals “an astonishing turnaround under a new and
dynamic young leader.” Yet, the Post says, it “remains to be seen whether”
Abiy can sustain this reform drive in the face of “opposition from
hard-liners.” One “key question will be whether economic reforms, including
the sale of shares to foreign investors in large state companies and the
privatization of others, will bring in enough hard currency to allow
payments on foreign debts and ease import bottlenecks.” If Abiy succeeds,
the “return of economic dynamism would go far to address the long-festering
unrest; if that is accompanied by genuine political liberalization, the
cause of democracy in Africa could get a historic boost.”

        *“A Wake-Up Call For New Approaches To Suicide Prevention.” *A
Washington
Post
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(6/10) editorial says the recent suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony
Bourdain “should serve to highlight suicide as a serious and growing
public-health problem that demands attention and action.” Their deaths,
alongside a CDC report which said that “nearly 45,000 Americans age 10 or
older died by suicide in 2016...making it the 10th-leading cause of death,”
should “serve as a wake-up call for new, more comprehensive approaches to
suicide policies and strategies.”

        *“The Justice Department’s Reputation Is In The Worst Danger Since
Watergate.” *In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(6/10) criticizes the Justice Department for refusing to defend the ACA
from “a frivolous legal challenge” which claims that the individual mandate
“is suddenly unconstitutional, because Congress last year zeroed out the
amount the uninsured must pay the government.” The Post argues that
“defending major, duly passed federal statutes is a core Justice Department
responsibility,” adding that the Department has “built a reputation for
evenhandedness and independence over the course of decades. That reputation
is now more in danger than it has been since Watergate.”

        *Samuelson Calls For Reforms To Social Security, Medicare. *Robert
Samuelson writes in the Washington Post
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(6/10) that with Social Security and Medicare accounting for a growing
percentage of federal spending due to the aging population, eligibility
ages should be increased and benefits reduced for wealthier recipients, but
“politicians freeze at the mere mention of cuts in Social Security and
Medicare.” Samuelson concludes, “We are passing along to our children a
governmental apparatus that invests heavily in the past and shortchanges
the future. Shame on us.”

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