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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 08:59:49 -0400

Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*To: Vice President Joe Biden*

*Wednesday, June 13, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden Rips Trump’s Agreement With Kim. <#S1>

• Biden Says Democrats “Better Run Scared” In Midterms. <#S2>

• Beau Biden Recognized For His Work On Protecting Children From Child
Abuse. <#S3>

• Local TV Stations Highlight Biden’s Slated Stop In Charlotte Today. <#S4>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Touts “Great Progress” On North Korea To Media Skepticism,
Democratic Criticism. <#S5>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump: Trudeau’s Criticism Of US Tariffs Will “Cost Him A Lot Of Money.”
<#S6>

• Rouhani Asks Macron For Action To Save Nuclear Deal. <#S7>

• Israeli Minister: Social Media Monitoring Has Thwarted Hundreds Of
Attacks. <#S8>

• Bolton Got $115,000 To Speak At Ukrainian Steel Magnate’s Foundation’s
Events. <#S9>

• Norway To Invite More US Marines Amid Russia Tensions. <#S10>

• May Wins Parliament Vote Over Brexit Plans. <#S11>

• US Unveils “Unofficial Embassy” In Taiwan. <#S12>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Media Analyses: Court Decision On AT&T-Time Merger A Loss For Trump, DOJ.
<#S13>

• Rosenstein Threatened To Subpoena House Intelligence Committee. <#S14>

• South Carolina Rep. Sanford’s Loss Among Host Of Primary Results
Yesterday. <#S15>

• Sessions Defends Decision On Restricting Asylum. <#S16>

• Azar Says He Wants To Preserve Protections For Preexisting Conditions.
<#S17>

• Trump Reportedly To Nominate CFPB Head Next Week. <#S18>

• Kwame Kilpatrick Asks Trump For Sentence Commutation. <#S19>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• Study: AI May Be Better At Identifying Skin Cancer Than Dermatologists.
<#S20>

• Texas HPV Coalition Launching Education Campaign To Boost Vaccination
Rates. <#S21>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S22>

• Washington Post. <#S23>
Biden in the News
Biden Rips Trump’s Agreement With Kim.

The Washington Times
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(6/12, Boyer) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden blasted
President Trump’s “deal with North Korea on denuclearization Tuesday,
saying Mr. Trump got taken to the cleaners by Kim Jong-un. ‘Talking to
dictators is one thing; embracing them is another,’ Mr. Biden said” in a
statement. He added, “So far, this is not a deal that advantages the United
States or makes us safer.” Biden, “who hasn’t ruled out a bid for the
presidency in 2020, said Mr. Trump’s deal has ‘reduced our leverage and
signaled a weakening of our alliance in return for vague promises to begin
nuclear negotiations – the same kind of promises that the North Korean
regime has made to American presidents of both parties in the past – and
broken repeatedly.’” The Los Angeles Times
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(6/12, Cloud) also reports Biden’s reaction – in a story headlined “Trump’s
Decision To Halt Military Exercises With South Korea Leaves Pentagon And
Allies Nervous” – and The Hill
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(6/12, Anapol) reported that Biden said Trump “gave Kim ‘many sought-after
wins up front without getting anything in return.’” Biden “also argued that
the deal between Trump and Kim shows an inappropriate embracing of a
dictator, and that it does not make the US safer. ‘While we should never
refuse to speak with our adversaries, neither can we ignore the horrendous
human rights abuses North Korea’s leaders perpetrate against their own
people,’ Biden said.”

        Mediaite
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(6/12, Feldman) reported that Biden “is also troubled by the lack of prep
Trump said he took in advance of the meeting: ‘By his own admission, the
President did not prepare for the Singapore meeting – an inexcusable and
irresponsible approach to a high-stakes negotiation. Going forward, I hope
that the President and his team will focus on what’s necessary for our
safety and security– – the complete, verifiable, and irreversible
denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. That is a goal we all
share.’” On CNN’s
Newsroom
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(6/12), host Brooke Baldwin read Biden’s statement.
Biden Says Democrats “Better Run Scared” In Midterms.

The Washington Examiner
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(6/12, Bedard) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden “is putting
Democrats on notice that they better ‘run scared’ to keep their jobs in the
2018 elections. ‘Pretend it’s Wednesday, November 7, 2018: the day after
this year’s midterm elections. Now, pretend the headlines all say the
Republicans held the House and the Senate,’ he said in an email to
supporters.” Biden went on to write, “Now, I’m not saying we’re going to
lose. But I learned a long time ago that you better run scared if you want
to win.” Biden added “that he is confident in his party in the fall
elections, but not overly. ‘We have to stay motivated; we better run
scared. We won’t win if we don’t,’ he emailed to supporters of his group,
American Possibilities.” National Review
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(6/12, McArdle) similarly reported on Biden’s email.
Beau Biden Recognized For His Work On Protecting Children From Child Abuse.

KYW-TV
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Philadelphia (6/12) reported that the National Children’s Alliance on
Tuesday “recognized the late Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden for his
commitment to protecting victims of child abuse. Former Vice President Joe
Biden accepted the award in Washington on behalf of his son.” KYW-TV
broadcast Biden saying, “It all came down to his passion to protect
children. It’s the one thing that drove his public service. And it’s why
this matters so much to our family that you recognized it.” WFOR-TV[image:
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Miami (6/12) broadcast Biden making the same remark, and added that he
“also said Americans don’t take enough about preventing sexual abuse,
especially in the wake of several prominent sex-abuse scandals.” WSHM-TV[image:
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Springfield (MA)'s CBS 3 News (6/12) also reported on the award honoring
Beau Biden.
Local TV Stations Highlight Biden’s Slated Stop In Charlotte Today.

This morning, WSOC-TV
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Charlotte, NC (6/13) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden today
“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 has helped him get through some of the toughest times. Former
Charlotte Mayor and Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx will join
Biden. The event is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Belk Theatre.” WCNC-TV[image:
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Charlotte, NC (6/13) and WXII-TV
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Winston-Salem, NC (6/13) this morning similarly report on Biden’s scheduled
stop in Charlotte.
Leading the News
Trump Touts “Great Progress” On North Korea To Media Skepticism, Democratic
Criticism.

Following his historic Singapore summit, President Trump tweeted
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yesterday, “Heading back home from Singapore after a truly amazing visit.
Great progress was made on the denuclearization of North Korea. Hostages
are back home, will be getting the remains of our great heroes back to
their families, no missiles shot, no research happening, sites closing...”
He later added
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“Got along great with Kim Jong-un who wants to see wonderful things for his
country. As I said earlier today: Anyone can make war, but only the most
courageous can make peace!”

        Further, Trump tweeted
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this morning, “Just landed – a long trip, but everybody can now feel much
safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from
North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive
experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!” He added in a
second tweet
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this morning, “Before taking office people were assuming that we were going
to War with North Korea. President Obama said that North Korea was our
biggest and most dangerous problem. No longer – sleep well tonight!” In a
later tweet
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this morning, Trump added, “We save a fortune by not doing war games, as
long as we are negotiating in good faith – which both sides are!”

        The summit, however, sparked widespread skepticism from the media,
which criticized the joint statement signed by the leaders as too vague,
and generally cast Trump as having accomplished little. In fact, the
coverage is so skeptical that Axios
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(6/12, Shin) ran an analysis pointing out to its readers that
“denuclearization could still happen despite Trump’s lack of a plan.”
Reuters
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(6/12, Spetalnick), however, says the summit “appears to have failed to
secure any concrete commitments by Pyongyang for dismantling its nuclear
arsenal,” while to Bloomberg News
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(6/12, Talev, Olorunnipa) the meeting “was unquestionably a success – for
Kim.” Another Bloomberg News
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(6/12, Wadhams) analysis says that the “biggest winner” – aside from Kim –
was the government of President Xi Jinping. The AP
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(6/12, Talmadge) reports that “probably even his own surprise,” Kim “got”
what he wanted out of Trump “and a whole lot more,” and the Washington Post
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(6/12, Hudson) cites “experts” who state the North Korea deals brokered by
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were far stronger than the agreement and
diplomatic process touted by Trump, and that the Administration handed Kim
a big win by agreeing to the summit.

        Democrats were of the similar mind. As USA Today
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(6/12, Gaudiano) reports, “Democratic congressional leaders
blasted...Trump...for granting concessions to...Kim...in exchange for a
deal to work toward ‘complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula’
that offered scant details on how to achieve it.” Whereas “Republican
leaders reacted with cautious optimism,” Senate Minority Leader Schumer
said yesterday, “Trump has granted a brutal and repressive dictatorship the
international legitimacy it has long craved.” House Minority Leader Pelosi
similarly stated, “In his haste to reach an agreement...Trump elevated
North Korea to the level of the United States while preserving the regime’s
status quo.” Sen. Robert Menendez, ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign
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(6/12), “This is the most anemic communique that has ever come out of a
US-North Korea engagement. Very little substance on anything. ... All we
got here was a promise for more promises and we’ve been down that road
before.”

        Townhall
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(6/12, Brown) highlights the Democratic leaders’ criticism, while Breitbart
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(6/12), Dana Bash “suggested there is a double standard to the extent there
would be a call for impeachment a Democratic president engaging in the
style of diplomacy in which Trump has engaged with...Kim.” Said Bash,
“There would be a call for impeachment.” Along similar lines, media
analyses are uniformly critical both of Trump and of the signed agreement.
Mark Landler writes in a New York Times
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(6/12) analysis that the statement “was as skimpy as the summit was
extravagant. It called for the ‘complete denuclearization’ of the Korean
Peninsula but provided neither a timeline nor any details about how the
North would go about relinquishing its weapons.” The Wall Street Journal
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(6/12, Bender, Gordon, Cheng) reports that Trump failed to secure specific
new commitments from Kim – even as he launched a new phase of personal
diplomacy.

        NBC Nightly News
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(6/12, lead story, 5:15, Holt) said “the accomplishments of their first
face-to-face meeting are being held up to the light, especially what wasn’t
in” the agreement Kim and Trump signed. ABC World News Tonight[image: Image
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(6/12, lead story, 4:55, Muir) reported that “Trump headed home today,
confident the biggest gamble of his presidency had paid off,” but the
agreement he and Kim signed is “short on specifics.” The White House
“acknowledges there’s a lot of details to workout.” The CBS Evening News[image:
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(6/12, lead story, 4:10, Glor) said a “jubilant” Trump left Singapore “with
what he said was an historic new relationship with North Korea and a
commitment from” Kim “to eventually give up nuclear weapons.” Margaret
Brennan said on the CBS Evening News
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(6/12, story 3, 2:55, Glor) that Trump “gave himself a lot of wiggle room
today” by saying, “I may stand up here I six months and say, ‘hey, I was
wrong.’” But the President “also gave the North Koreans room to maneuver as
well.”

        The Washington Post
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(6/12, Nakamura, Rucker, Fifield, Gearan) says that at “just over a page
long,” the statement “was perhaps most notable for its lack of details.”
Kim, it says, “made no specific commitment to relinquish his nuclear arms
and ballistic missiles and gave no timeline for which he would do so.
Rather, he committed solely to abiding by a mostly symbolic agreement he
had made during a summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in April.”
Asked
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why his negotiating team had not locked down specific promises from
Pyongyang, Trump replied: “Because there’s no time. I’m here one day ...
But the process is now going to take place.”

        Under the headline “Trump, Kim Claim Big Summit Success, But
Details Are Scant,” the AP
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(6/12, Miller, Lucey, Lederman, Klug) says the statement “largely amounts
to an agreement to continue discussions, echoing previous public statements
and commitments.” Still, the two leaders “left Singapore Tuesday, praising
their face-to-face progress.” During a press conference after the talks,
Trump “acknowledged that denuclearization won’t happen overnight,” but
contended, “Once you start the process it means it’s pretty much over.”

        The Los Angeles Times
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(6/12, Kim) characterizes the framework as “a vaguely worded agreement that
contained no concrete plan for disarmament.” While the Times concedes the
agreement “is no small achievement considering that the two leaders were
threatening each other with nuclear war last summer...it was far less than
the ambitious arms control deal Trump hoped to gain when he agreed to the
summit in March.” CNN
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(6/11, Liptak) similarly says Tuesday’s “unprecedented” talks
“culminated...with fulsome declarations of a new friendship but just vague
pledges of nuclear disarmament.” USA Today
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(6/12, Jackson) notes the agreement “did not provide specifics about what
Kim means by ‘denuclearization.’”

        The Washington Free Beacon
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(6/12, Gertz), however, says that while the “historic meeting...failed to
produce a dramatic breakthrough,” it did “set the stage for future talks on
what was billed as a new relationship.” To the AP
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(6/12, Lemire, Pennington), moreover, Trump staged “a shift from the
nation’s asserted stance as the globe’s moral leader” and “a sharp break
from the position of presidents from both parties to set America as the
exemplar shining city on a hill for other nations to emulate.” The AP
analysis adds that “it has been much the same at home,” as when “he
pointedly refused to exclusively blame neo-Nazis and white supremacists for
last summer’s deadly clash with anti-racist demonstrators.”

        James Hohmann writes in a Washington Post
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(6/12) analysis that Trump “expressed a bewilderingly high degree of
confidence” after Tuesday’s meeting with Kim. Trump told reporters, “My
whole life has been deals. I know when somebody wants a deal. … I just feel
very strongly – my instinct… – they want to make a deal.” Hohmann, however,
says the President “is giving someone the benefit of the doubt who has done
little or nothing to earn it.”

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(6/12, story 2, 1:20, Glor) that “the front page of the newspaper in North
Korea today...is covered with pictures of Kim...with President Trump. And
that’s one of the big things that Kim...got out of this. He looks like a
confident world leader on the world stage. He doesn’t look like the leader
of an isolated nation.”

        A USA Today
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(6/12, Korte) analysis, meanwhile, says Tuesday’s summit “hearkens back to
a bygone era of high-risk summits where the outcome is not preordained,”
but it “suits” Trump’s “negotiating style: Size up your adversary,
establish a rapport and make a deal.” Ted Anthony writes for the AP
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(6/12) that the summit “is being vigorously debated across the planet for
what it did, what it didn’t do and who emerged on top. ... But what if
that’s not the whole point? What if, on a sunny tropical morning in
Singapore, the spectacle itself was the most substantial thing of all?”

        *Kim Accepts Trump’s Invite To Washington. *The New York Post
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(6/12, Hicks) reports that “fresh off the Singapore summit,” Kim “has
accepted...Trump’s invitation to visit Washington.” The Daily Caller
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(6/12, Pickrell) reports the state-run Korean Central News Agency said
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Kim invited Trump “to visit Pyongyang at a convenient time and Trump
invited Kim Jong Un to visit the US. ... The two top leaders gladly
accepted each other’s invitation.”

        *Trump Reiterates Optimism About Denuclearization, US-North Korea
Ties. *Trump took to Twitter again later on Tuesday, writing
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“There is no limit to what NoKo can achieve when it gives up its nuclear
weapons and embraces commerce & engagement w/ the world. Chairman Kim has
before him the opportunity to be remembered as the leader who ushered in a
glorious new era of security & prosperity for his citizens!” He later added
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“I want to thank Chairman Kim for taking the first bold step toward a
bright new future for his people. Our unprecedented meeting – the first
between an American President and a leader of North Korea – proves that
real change is possible! ...
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The World has taken a big step back from potential Nuclear catastrophe! No
more rocket launches, nuclear testing or research! The hostages are back
home with their families. Thank you to Chairman Kim, our day together was
historic!”

        During an interview with George Stephanopoulos for ABC’s Good
Morning America
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(6/12) after the summit, moreover, Trump said, “They are going to get rid
of their nuclear weapons, and...I think they want to do it relatively
quickly. ... I think they will. I really believe that [Kim] will. I’ve
gotten to know him well in a short period of time. ... He’s denuking the
whole place and he’s going to start very quickly. I think he’s going to
start now.” In an interview conducted in Singapore after Tuesday’s summit
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(6/12) that without the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, “we could
not have had a deal. We want to de-nuke the entire peninsula. We want to
de-nuke that whole situation – that is hotbed and you know what has been
happening for years and nobody did anything about it. You have to, we have
no choice. We had to. The relationship was really good. ... I talked about
early on in the relationship and the feeling, well, we had a really good
feel right from the beginning and we were able to get something very
important done and actually some things happened after that was signed,
where we are getting rid of certain missile research areas and certain
missile testing sites, we are getting rid of a lot.”

        The Washington Times
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(6/12, Boyer) reports that Trump also told Sean Hannity that “he’s certain
that his warlike rhetoric last year against...Kim...convinced Mr. Kim to
negotiate over giving up his nuclear weapons.” Trump told Fox News’
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(6/12), “Without the rhetoric we wouldn’t have been here, I really believe
that. We did sanctions and all the things that you would do but I think
without the rhetoric, other administrations, I don’t want to get specific
on that, but they had a policy of silence. If they said something very bad,
very threatening and horrible, just don’t answer. That’s not the answer.
That’s not what you have to do. I think that rhetoric, I hated to do it.
Sometimes I felt foolish doing it. But we had no choice.”

        *Trump Called Into Senate GOP Lunch To Discuss Summit. *The Hill
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(6/12, Carney) reports Trump “called into the Senate GOP lunch from Air
Force One on Tuesday to discuss North Korea, according to a senator who
attended the gathering.” Sen. John Barrasso told reporters after the caucus
lunch, “We just got off the phone with the President of the United States
from Air Force One on his plane back from Singapore. He sounded confident
and upbeat, as he should.”

        *Republicans Offer “Measured Praise,” Rubio Slams Media “Hypocrisy”
Over Summit Coverage. *Meanwhile, says the Washington Post
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(6/12, Wagner, Debonis), “leading Republicans in Congress offered measured
praise...of...Trump’s high-profile summit” even as “they emphasized the
difficult road” ahead. Along those lines, the AP
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(6/12, Kellman) notes that Senate Majority Leader McConnell, meanwhile,
hailed the meeting as a “major first step.” Dana Milbank writes in the
Washington
Post
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(6/12) that “Republican lawmakers filled Twitter with applause emojis for
Trump after he did the very thing they denounced Obama for even
suggesting.” Democrats, “were they inclined to be demagogic, could have
attacked Trump for sitting down with a murderous dictator. Most didn’t.”
There is an “asymmetrical partisanship in our current politics: Republicans
are blithely hypocritical in praising Trump for doing the same thing they
blasted Obama for suggesting, but at least some Democrats retain enough
integrity not to dismiss diplomacy just because it is being attempted by
their opponent.”

        The New York Times
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(6/12, Fandos) reports, however, that “lawmakers from both
parties...greeted the joint agreement...coolly on Tuesday,” and “even some
Republicans who have largely declined to challenge the president” on this
issue saying “it was unclear what, if anything, had been gained by the
United States.” The Times backs up that assertion by quoting Sens. Bob
Corker and Lindsey Graham, who “called the talks a good ‘first step’ but
little more.” Graham told NBC’s Today
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(6/12, Guthrie), “I don’t think canceling a war game is going to matter
over the arc of time,” though “one thing I would violently disagree with is
removing our troops. I can’t imagine I would vote for any agreement that
requires us to withdraw our forces because that would destabilize Asia.”

        The Washington Times
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(6/12, Chasmar) reports Sen. Marco Rubio “on Tuesday slammed American media
for their ‘hypocrisy’ in covering...Trump’s historic meeting with...Kim.”
Taking to Twitter, “Rubio said the media’s coverage of the meeting again
exposed a double standard in how they cover the Republican president
compared to his liberal predecessor, Barack Obama.” Rubio tweeted
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“I too have concerns about how all this with #NorthKorea will turn out,”
but “I don’t recall all the ‘experts’ criticizing Obama when he met with a
brutal dictator in #Cuba who also oversaw a police state & also killed &
jailed his opponents. #DoubleStandard” He added, “Presidents meeting with
#KJU exposed incredible hypocrisy of many in media. ... When Obama did
these things, he was described as enlightened. When Trump does it he is
reckless & foolish. 1 yr ago they attacked Trump for leading us towards
war, now attack for being too quick for peace.”

        Author Paul Brandus writes in USA Today
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(6/12), “Here’s how hyperpartisan our bizarro world has become: Many of the
same folks who, a few years ago, blasted...Obama for going to Cuba and for
working with other global powers to rein in Iran’s nuclear program, are
gushing over the fact that...Trump just flew 10,000 miles to meet with
Kim,” and “conversely, if you praised Obama’s actions then, there’s a good
chance you’ve been critical of Trump’s now.”

        *Sanders, Gabbard Break With Democrats On Summit. *In what Breitbart
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(6/12, Binder) calls “a revolt against the Democratic Party establishment,”
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) “praised Trump’s summit
with Kim,” calling it an “important first step” towards peace and a
“positive step in de-escalating tensions.”

        *Editorial Pages Critical Of Trump. *Criticism of Trump is also the
norm in today’s editorial pages. The Washington Post
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(6/12) editorializes that the summit “was, without question, a triumph for
Kim,” who “was able to parade on the global stage as a legitimate
statesman, praised by the president of the United States as ‘very talented’
and worthy of trust.” Washington Post
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(6/12) columnist Max Boot writes that Kim “won an invaluable propaganda
windfall” after being “recognized as an equal by the leader of the world’s
sole superpower – not just an equal, indeed, but a valued friend.” The New
York Times
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(6/12) editorializes that “Trump has made major concessions, while Mr. Kim
made fewer commitments than North Korea has made to past administrations
and merely reaffirmed a goal of ‘denuclearization’ that North Korea first
announced in 1992.” And as Trump “gushed about the virtues of the North
Korean dictator, just a day after he savaged some of America’s closest
democratic allies, he even endorsed the North Korean view of such joint
exercises” with South Korea “as ‘provocative.’” To Nicholas Kristof of the New
York Times
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(6/12), meanwhile, “it sure looks as if...Trump was hoodwinked in
Singapore.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(6/12) also expresses skepticism in its editorial, indicating that for all
of Trump’s faith in North Korean denuclearization, so far there was been
little evidence that Kim is indeed willing to move forward with his
commitment.

        Less critical was an editorial in the Los Angeles Times
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(6/12), which says Trump has “de-escalated the rhetoric dramatically” and
“may have begun a process that will succeed in reining in North Korea’s
nuclear ambitions,” but “for all the spectacle, the meeting was at best a
down payment on that change.” Along similar lines, USA Today
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(6/12) editorializes that that “the world has certainly come a long way
since last year,” that the summit was “a welcome relief from all the
warmongering,” and that “the agreement signed by Kim and Trump was historic
and potentially groundbreaking.” However, “the sense of hopefulness
emerging from the summit, however, has to be leavened with a heavy dose of
skepticism.”

        In a second editorial, the New York Times
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(6/12) writes that “as a model for diplomacy, the Singapore Summit had its
highs and lows. But as a platform for displaying the singular performance
art of Donald Trump, it was a solid 10.” The Times adds that “if Mr. Trump
can crack this nut, he’ll surely get the adulation – not to mention the
Nobel Peace Prize – that he is so desperate for.”

        *Suspension Of “War Games” Sparks More Criticism. *Reports also
cast Trump’s decision to suspend joint US-South Korean “war games” as a
concession that took Seoul by surprise. The New York Times
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(6/12, Landler) reports Trump’s decision to suspend the war games, which it
calls “a major concession,” “appeared to take South Korea by surprise.”
Reuters
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(6/12, Holland) calls it “an unexpected concession to the North,” and the AP
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(6/12, Klug) says the decision “rocked the region with the stunning
announcement.” It adds that Trump’s “surprise, almost offhand” remarks
“contradicted countless previous declarations by US political and military
officials over the years that the drills are routine, defensive and
absolutely critical.” The Los Angeles Times
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(6/12, Kim) reports Trump told reporters that halting the drills would save
“a lot of money” and he called them “provocative,” a “complaint North Korea
often made.”

        The Washington Times
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(6/12, Boyer) and Politico
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(6/12, Cook, Nelson, Toosi), among others, similarly report the move, which
Politico says caught “South Korea and US military officials by surprise”
and drew “criticism that he was giving away too much for little in return.”
The New York Times
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(6/12, Choe) says Trump’s remarks “apparently blindsided South Korea.” The
office of President Moon Jae-in and the Defense Ministry in Seoul both said
they were scrambling to “figure out the exact meaning and intentions in
President Trump’s comments.” ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by
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(6/12, story 3, 1:30, Muir) too said the South Korean Defense Ministry was
“caught off-guard, saying there was a need to discern the exact meaning and
intent of President Trump’s comments.” However, a second ABC World News
Tonight
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(6/12, story 11, 1:40, Muir) segment said “there were cheers in South
Korea” on Tuesday.

        NBC Nightly News
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(6/12, story 2, 2:05, Holt) reported that Trump “not only surprised the
South Koreans but US forces in the region, too.” NBC (Engel) added that
American forces in South Korea “said they... received no updated guidance
on execution or cessation of training exercises.”

        Trump told Fox News’ Hannity
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(6/12) later on Tuesday, “One of the things that I’m very happy about, we
are not going to play the war games anymore. You know how expensive that
is? We are flying these massive bombers in for practice from Guam? ... I
hate to sound like a pure businessman, but I kept saying, what is this
costing? I look at them coming in from the sea and bombs exploding, and I
said what does this cost? I don’t even want to tell you, but it’s a lot. So
we are not going to be doing that as long as we are negotiating in good
faith, which I think we will be.”

        On CNN’s New Day
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(6/12), Jim Sciutto said, “There’s a clear imbalance in specifics. The US
has made very specific commitments to end the exercises. The President even
brought up withdrawing US troops from the peninsula, a security guarantee
to...South Korea. That’s very specific.” Sciutto added that, on the other
hand, North Korea “gave no specifics on a timeline for denuclearization,
[and] no specifics on how that will be verified over time.” Likewise,
on MSNBC’s
Morning Joe
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(6/12), Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass said that a
“concerning” aspect of the framework is that North Korea “talked
aspirationally about ‘denuclearization,’” while the US “offered up
something tangible, which was the suspension of all military exercises.”

        The Washington Post
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(6/12, Kim), meanwhile, says Trump’s decision to halt the joint military
exercises also “touched off confusion on Capitol Hill as an influential GOP
senator asserted the exercises would nonetheless continue. That was
apparently the message delivered by Vice President Pence to Senate
Republicans during a private lunch earlier Tuesday,” according to Sen. Cory
Gardner,” although that was immediately disputed by Pence’s office.”
Gardner told reporters, “I think what the vice president said today – and
we’ll continue to clarify what the President had talked about – exercises
will continue with South Korea.”

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(6/12), “You had confusion on Capitol Hill about what this really meant.
You had confusion about whether we were, in fact, going to stop exercises
or so-called war games. You saw the Vice President trying to talk to Senate
Republicans and the Republicans leaving confused about what would actually
occur.”

        *WPost: Japanese Officials “Appeared Satisfied.” *The Washington
Post
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(6/12, Murphy, Oda) reports Japan “was left Tuesday without what it wanted
most from the Singapore summit: a clear declaration that North Korea would
reopen talks over the abductions of Japanese citizens decades ago.”
Nevertheless, Japanese officials “appeared satisfied with what they got:
President Trump’s public promise that he raised the issue with...Kim...and
that the North was ‘working on that.’”

        *China, Russia Looking To Loosen Sanctions Against North Korea. *The
CBS Evening News
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(6/12, story 2, 1:20, Glor) that China – which is “quite happy” about the
“cessation of those military exercises” since it’s something Beijing has
“asked for for a long time” – is also “floating the idea of easing
sanctions on North Korea before there really is big progress.” National
security analyst Samantha Vinograd said on CNN’s Situation Room[image:
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(6/12), “I think it is unknowable right now what the United States will
gain, but what we do know is that there were clear winners here. Russia and
China won out after the summit because the United States announced we that
would be rolling back our military operations in the region, that has been
a goal of Russia and China, and that we would engage in the diplomatic
process further.”

        *Trump Showed Kim Video Of Possible Future For North Korea. *The New
York Times
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(6/12, Rich) reports Trump used an iPad to show Kim “a slick, bombastic
video
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– essentially a Hollywood-style trailer presenting the North’s possible
future, featuring fighter jets and missile launches cut together with
images of dancing children, artisanal pizza and time-lapse sunrises over
skyscrapers.” The video – “which the White House also showed to the
traveling press corps before Mr. Trump answered questions at a rambling
news conference – showcased the president’s reality television
sensibility.” According to the Washington Times
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(6/12, Boyer), the video depicted Kim and Trump “as two men who could
change the course of history.”

        The AP
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(6/12, Thomas, Miller) reports the video was “reminiscent of a movie
trailer” and “shows images of warplanes and artillery while a narrator
suggests in English and Korean that ‘a new world can begin today, one of
friendship, respect and goodwill.’” Trump said, “We had it made up. I
showed it to him today, actually during the meeting, toward the end of the
meeting and I think he loved it.” Trump said the video “was played for
about eight members of the North Korean delegation, ‘and I thought they
were fascinated by it.’” According to the Washington Post
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(6/12, Selk), reporters who viewed the video initially assumed it was North
Korean propaganda.

        *Trump Instructed US Diplomats To Seek POW Deal. *The Washington
Post
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(6/12, Rein, Hudson) reports that “nestled” in Tuesday’s joint statement
“was a short bullet point that addresses a long-running concern of US
veterans groups: the recovery of the remains of thousands of American
troops who were killed or captured in North Korea during the Korean War.”
The Post says the statement “represents a significant victory for veterans
groups that lobbied forcefully behind the scenes for a renewed effort to
recover remains.” Ahead of the summit, Secretary of State Pompeo told his
negotiating team, led by US Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim, that
the POW issue is important to Trump, and he “instructed Kim to negotiate
for it,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.

        Trump told Fox News’ Hannity
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(6/12), “One of the things I will to you that I’m most happy about, and as
you know is a big sticking point, is bringing back the remains of thousands
of soldiers that were killed. ... I said, would it be possible because I
get letters all the time from families who lost a son, lost a brother, lots
of father in Korea. That was a rough fight. ... I get so many letters from
people who lost a loved one in North Korea essentially...and I would say, I
am going to try.’ And I brought it up and I tell you what, it was almost
immediate. Now in the past, you couldn’t even talk about it. But it was
really a nice response.”

        *Media Analyses: Trump Mostly Mum On Human Rights. *NBC
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(6/12, story 3, 2:25, Holt) reported, “One issue that did not receive much
discussion during this summit was the brutal reality of life in North
Korea.” The Washington Post
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(6/12, Nakamura) reports that while “galvanizing international condemnation
of North Korea last year,” Trump “often invoked the authoritarian nation’s
brutal mistreatment of foreign prisoners and its own people.” But on
Tuesday, Trump “didn’t mention human rights in his opening remarks” at his
press conference, and the issue “wasn’t included in a joint statement
signed by the two leaders.” Major Garrett similarly said on the CBS Evening
News
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(6/12, lead story, 4:10, Glor), “Last year, the President called North
Korea with its abysmal human rights record ‘wicked and depraved.’ Today, he
said he trusts the dynastic young dictator after just one face-to-face
meeting.” Trump: “He’s smart. He loves his people. He loves his country. He
wants a lot of good things, and that’s why he’s doing this.”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(6/12, story 2, 3:35, Muir) reported on Trump’s interview with George
Stephanopoulos, who asked how he can trust a “brutal dictator” like Kim.
Trump replied in part: “I can only tell you from my experience, and...I’ve
spoken with him, and I’ve met him. ... I think that he really wants to do a
great job for North Korea.”

        *Hannity: Summit Exceeded Administration’s Expectations. *On Fox
News’ Fox & Friends
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(6/12), Hannity described his interview with Trump last night, and said
that after seeing the President, Pompeo, Chief of Staff Kelly, and National
Security Adviser Bolton, “it was obvious this had exceeded all of their
expectations,” and “it was very obvious everybody felt really good about
it, especially the President.”

        *Commentators Note Change In Tone In US-North Korean Ties. *Ian
Bremmer of the Eurasia Group said on CBS This Morning[image: Image removed
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(6/12, O'Donnell), “The biggest win is that six months ago we were talking
about the possibility of military preemption against North Korea. It’s
almost inconceivable now that there’s a short-term risk of military
conflict.” However, Bremmer added, “It’s a very high bar to go from here to
‘complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization.’”

        On MSNBC’s Morning Joe
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(6/12), Victor Cha, former Asia director at the National Security Council,
said, “If we weren’t doing this we would probably be near an armed
conflict. That’s certainly where we were headed in December of 2017. So, in
that sense, yes, this is a good first start in terms of the diplomacy, but
there’s still a very long way to go. And if you look at the balance sheet,
it seems like Kim got a lot more out of this meeting than Trump did.”
Appearing on NBC’s Today
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(6/12, Kotb), Cha said, “What we got was a very broad statement, which will
require negotiations to try to put some meat on the bones. But the
statements on denuclearization, which we care about the most as Americans,
are so broad, you can drive a truck through them.”

        Cha also writes today in the New York Times
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(6/12, Cha) that Trump deserves “credit. Only five months ago, based on my
conversations with this administration, I thought we were headed down an
inexorable path toward a devastating war.” He says “Trump’s diplomacy,
however unconventional, has pierced the isolation bubble of the North
Korean leadership, which no previous president could do,” and adds that
“despite its many flaws, the Singapore summit represents the start of a
diplomatic process that takes us away from the brink of war.”

        Gerald F. Seib argues in the Wall Street Journal
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(6/12) that the prospects for Tuesday’s summit turning into lasting change
rest on whether Kim is prepared to shift away from a quest for more
powerful arms into a quest for a more powerful economy.

        Thomas Countryman, former assistant secretary of state for
international security and nonproliferation, and Daryl G. Kimball,
executive director of the Arms Control Association, write for USA Today
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(6/12) that the summit “offers a moment of cautious hope,” but “we should
have no illusions that the denuclearization effort would be simple. There
is no precedent for a country with a nuclear arsenal and infrastructure as
substantial as North Korea’s to give up its nuclear weapons program.” They
urge President Trump to “resist the urge to abandon diplomacy and to return
to irresponsible threats” if “early results are not fully satisfactory.”

        *Trump Campaign Manager: CNN’s Acosta Should Lose Credentials.
*The Washington
Post
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(6/12, Wagner) reports Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, on Tuesday
called for CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta to have his media
credentials pulled “for asking questions while Trump and North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un were signing an agreement at their Singapore summit.”
Parscale tweeted
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“Jim @Acosta should immediately have his press credentials suspended. He is
an absolute disgrace!” The Post notes that as Trump and Kim were signing
the document in front of a small group of reporters, Acosta asked: “Mr.
President, did he agree to denuclearize?”

        *Politico: Trump Places “Big Midterm Bet” On Trade, North Korea. *
Politico
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(6/12, Cadelago, White) says that “to President Donald Trump’s camp, his
scorched-earth challenge to key US allies over trade and his valedictory
denuclearization pact with Korean dictator Kim Jong Un amount to a
compelling midterm pitch.” Politico, however, cautions that the President’s
“big moves of the past few days also represent a giant bet that he can keep
his negotiating partners at the table between now and November.”

        Dan Balz writes for the Washington Post
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(6/12) that Trump “is now embarked on two ambitious foreign policy
initiatives – redrawing the rules of international trade and defanging a
nuclear-armed North Korea – that represent significant personal gambles.
The question is, can he gain something politically from these efforts in
the absence of demonstrable accomplishments?” Balz argues that Trump’s
“biggest gamble could be his confidence that his unorthodox approach,
regardless of the outcomes, will produce tangible political dividends for
2018 and especially 2020.”

        *White House Thanks Rodman For Being “Helpful” In North Korea. *The New
York Post
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(6/12, Tacopino) reports White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders” thanked
Dennis Rodman for his ‘positive’ comments and being ‘helpful’” in bringing
Trump and Kim together. In a phone call Monday, Sanders is quoted as
telling Rodman, “The President had seen some of your comments over the last
several days. He just wanted me to reach out and thank you for some of the
positive things you said and appreciate you being helpful in this process.”

        *USA Today’s Robbins: “Anti-Trump Mania” Driving Media
Narrative. *James
S. Robbins, writing for USA Today
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(6/12), “Last fall,” Trump and Kim “were trading personal insults and
threatening nuclear war. Fast-forward to the Singapore summit, and the two
men are smiling and talking on the Island of Tranquility. Just like that,
peace broke out.” While “there has been no lack of criticism of the
summit...anti-Trump mania drives most of the critical narrative, rather
than a reasoned analysis of strategic opportunity.”

        Margaret Sullivan, meanwhile, writes for the Washington Post
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(6/12) that “although every legitimate news organization made efforts, some
better than others, to bring context and even a measure of skepticism into
their mix of stories, the event overall was a triumph of Trumpian
stagecraft. And the media played its accustomed role.” Sullivan says that
“to their credit, news organizations tried to bring context to the
pageantry, but it was largely lost.”
Foreign Policy
Trump: Trudeau’s Criticism Of US Tariffs Will “Cost Him A Lot Of Money.”

Pamela Brown reported on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(6/12) that President Trump is “waiving off concerns he’s favoring
America’s enemies over allies following discord at the G-7” this weekend.
“However,” Brown continued, Trump “did call out Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau for criticizing US tariffs” at the end of the G-7 summit,
with Trump calling Trudeau “quote, ‘obnoxious.’” CNN also showed Trump
telling ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “I actually like Justin. ... But he
shouldn’t have done that. That was a mistake that will cost him a lot of
money.” ABC World News Tonight
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(6/12, story 4, 2:15, Muir) also reported that “just hours after heaping
praise on North Korea’s dictator,” Trump “escalated his war of words
with...Trudeau, declaring Canadians would pay a price.” On Tuesday though,
Trudeau “insisted the President’s tariffs will end up hurting Americans.”
Trudeau was shown saying, “This is not in the interest of two countries
that have the closest and best trading relationship and alliance in the
history of the world. We’re gonna continue to stand for that.” Fox News
Special Report
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(6/12) reported that Navarro “says his language was inappropriate.”

        *Navarro Apologizes For “Special Place In Hell” Comment. *ABC World
News Tonight
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(6/12, story 4, 2:15, Muir) reported that while Trump is “not backing away
from this fight,” White House trade adviser Peter Navarro “apologized
to...Trudeau” after saying this weekend that “there’s a special place in
hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad-faith diplomacy
with...Trump.” The AP
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(6/12) reports that Navarro said Tuesday during a Wall Street Journal
conference, “Let me correct a mistake I made...In conveying that message I
used language that was inappropriate.” Politico
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(6/12, Cassella) quotes Navarro as adding, “My mission was to send a strong
signal of strength. ... The problem is that in conveying that message I
used language that was inappropriate.” The New York Times
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(6/12, Rappeport) notes Navarro also said, “I own that, that was my
mistake, those were my words.” The Wall Street Journal
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(6/12, Mauldin) says Navarro made it clear his remarks referred to Trudeau.

        The Hill
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(6/12, Samuels) says Navarro “apologized” after Canadian Foreign Minister
Chrystia Freeland said his Sunday remarks were “particularly appropriate or
useful,” and after a “number of US lawmakers” and other foreign officials
like European Council President Donald Tusk “were quick to condemn” his
comments. According to Bloomberg News
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(6/12, Leonard, Pickert), “Navarro’s apology could ease tensions after
Canada’s parliament condemned the personal attack on Trudeau and as
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland gets ready to meet with members
of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday in Washington.” Sen.
Bob Corker, chairman of the committee, “said on Tuesday that he’s ‘glad’
that Navarro admitted that he misspoke.”

        However, Reuters
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(6/12) reports that “Canada reacted coolly to the apology, with Trudeau
declining to answer when reporters asked him whether he accepted it.”
The Washington
Post
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(6/12, Wagner) notes that Navarro’s “broadside against Trudeau followed
Trump’s decision over the weekend to pull the US endorsement of a Group of
Seven economic agreement” after Trump took “umbrage over comments made by
Trudeau about the need for Canada to stand up to the United States on trade
tariffs.”

        *Corker Chides GOP Colleagues After His Tariff Measure Is Blocked
In Senate. *The Hill
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(6/12, Carney) reports legislation authored by Sen. Bob Corker “reining in
President Trump’s tariff authority was blocked from getting a vote in the
Senate on Tuesday.” Corker “tried to bring up his bill and schedule a vote
but was blocked” by Sen. James Inhofe, “who is managing the defense bill
for Republicans.” Inhofe “noted he had talked to members of the House, who
were ‘strenuously’ objecting to the inclusion of Corker’s amendment in the
defense policy bill.” The Washington Post
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(6/12, Werner) says “the leadership move, which blocked Corker from
including his legislation as an amendment on a pending defense bill,
probably killed it for good – and with it, Congress’s best chance of taking
any action to confront Trump on trade.”

        Bloomberg News
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(6/12, Litvan) reports that Corker, “who is retiring in January, is
increasingly open about his frustrations with Trump’s trade and other
policies,” and “on the Senate floor, Corker accused Republicans lawmakers
of being afraid to ‘poke the bear’ when they find themselves on the other
side of the president.” The AP
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(6/12, Freking) recounts that “sounding exasperated, Corker said Republican
senators overwhelmingly agree with the concept behind his bill, but are
afraid of upsetting the president.” Said Corker, “We might poke the bear is
the language I’ve been hearing in the hallways. ... The United States
Senate right now on June 12th is becoming a body where, well, we’ll do what
we can do, but my gosh if the President gets upset with us, then we might
not be in the majority, so let’s not doing anything that might upset the
President.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(6/12, Weaver) reports that “as his voice went up an octave,” Corker added
yesterday, “I can’t believe it!” Reuters
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(6/12, Zengerle) also says “Corker accused his fellow Republicans of being
afraid to stand up to...Trump,” and USA Today
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(6/12, Collins) that he “chastised his fellow Republicans.”

        *Trump May Impose China Tariffs As Soon As Friday. *Politico
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(6/12, Behsudi) reports two sources briefed on internal deliberations say
that, in a move “sure to further inflame tensions and spark almost
immediate retaliation,” Trump “is expected to impose tariffs on Chinese
goods as soon as Friday or next week.” This “aggressive stance calls into
question the future of talks between the two trade powers.” After the
summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, which “China was seen as
playing a key role” in making happen, Trump “said Beijing has not done an
adequate job closing its border to trade with North Korea in recent months,
which Trump seemed to blame for rising U.S.-China trade tensions.” On
Friday, the Administration plans to publish a list of Chinese goods that
will be affected by tariffs, and Trump “may choose to use the publication
of the list on Friday as the latest shot across China’s bow” instead of
actually implementing the tariffs.

        *Ross: ZTE Legislation Not Guaranteed To Become Law. *Bloomberg News
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(6/12, Shields) reports that at an event in Washington on Tuesday, Commerce
Secretary Ross “said ‘we’ll see’ when asked about plans to impose tariffs
on Chinese imports, as the US prepares to reveal its list of final targets
this week.” Ross “also said that legislation that would restore penalties
on the China’s ZTE Corp. is not a certainty as the measure still needs
final approval.” White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin
Hassett, meanwhile, said President Trump “is ‘very serious’ about China
addressing its alleged IP abuses and forced technology transfers.” Reuters
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(6/12) reports that ZTE “said trading in its shares would resume on
Wednesday, ending a two-month suspension, after the Chinese
telecommunications giant agreed to pay up to $1.4 billion in penalties to
the U.S. government and radically overhaul its management.”
Rouhani Asks Macron For Action To Save Nuclear Deal.

Reuters
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(6/12, Irish, Sharafedin) reports Iranian President Hassan Rouhani “warned
world powers on Tuesday that it was impossible for Tehran to stay in the
nuclear deal if it cannot benefit from the accord after the US withdrawal.”
In a call with French President Emmanuel Macron, Rouhani “said he was
satisfied with Europe’s stance, especially French efforts to salvage the
2015 deal,” but that “such statements should be combined with actions and
tangible measures.” Iranian state media quoted him as saying, “If Iran
cannot benefit from the deal, then it’s practically impossible to stay in
the accord.”

        *State Department: Iranian Official’s Interview Confirms Country
Facilitated 9/11 Attacks. *The Washington Free Beacon
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(6/12, Kredo) reports the State Department “is taking a top Iranian
official’s explanation of events linked to the travel of the 9/11 terrorist
attackers as an admission of guilt in facilitating the” attacks. According
to Al Arabiya, Mohammad-Javad Larijani, an international affairs assistant
in the Iran’s judiciary, disclosed in Farsi-language remarks “that Iranian
intelligence officials secretly helped provide the al Qaeda attackers with
passage and gave them refuge in the Islamic Republic.” However, “Iranian
officials representing the country’s interests at the United Nations have
attempted to recharacterize Larijani’s remarks and said that translations
were manipulated by al Arabiya.” A “senior State Department official” told
the Free Beacon, “These actions once again confirm the egregious nature of
the Iranian regime and are further evidence of the regime’s malign role in
the world.”
Israeli Minister: Social Media Monitoring Has Thwarted Hundreds Of Attacks.

The AP
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(6/12, Federman) reports that Israeli Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan
says his government has “foiled over 200 Palestinian attacks by monitoring
social media and sifting through vast amounts of data to identify
prospective assailants ahead of time.” According to the AP, “These
pre-emptive actions put Israel at the forefront of an increasingly popular
– and controversial – trend used by intelligence and law enforcement
agencies around the world that use big data technology to track would-be
criminals.” Erdan “said Israel’s use of algorithms and other technology has
been an important factor in lowering the number of knife and shooting
attacks in Israel in recent years.”
Bolton Got $115,000 To Speak At Ukrainian Steel Magnate’s Foundation’s
Events.

The Washington Post
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(6/12, Fahrenthold) reports that according a financial disclosure form
released Monday by the White House, National Security Adviser Bolton was
paid $115,000 in the last year to take part in two panel discussions
sponsored by Ukrainian steel magnate Victor Pinchuk’s foundation
--”including one in Kiev last September, during which Bolton reassured the
audience that President Trump would not radically change U.S. foreign
policy.” Bolton said, “The notion that [Trump’s election] is going to
represent a dramatic break in foreign policy is just wrong. Calm down, for
God’s sakes.”
Norway To Invite More US Marines Amid Russia Tensions.

Reuters
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(6/12, Fouche) reports Norway will ask the US to “more than double the
number” of Marines stationed in the country “in a move that could raise
tensions” with Russia. Roughly 330 Marines were scheduled to leave Norway
at the end of this year, but Oslo has “grown increasingly concerned about
Russia following its annexation of Crimea in 2014.” Foreign Minister Ine
Eriksen Soereide, however, “told reporters the decision did not constitute
the establishment of a permanent US base in Norway and was not targeted at
Russia.”
May Wins Parliament Vote Over Brexit Plans.

Reuters
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(6/12, Piper) reports British Prime Minister Theresa May “defused a
rebellion in parliament over her Brexit plans on Tuesday but only after
having to compromise and hand lawmakers more control over Britain’s
departure from the European Union.” After winning Tuesday’s vote over
changes to a final agreement, May’s agreement to discuss the changes “may
mean lawmakers could have more power if she fails to secure a Brexit deal,
possibly leading to a softer approach to Britain’s divorce.” The New York
Times
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(6/12, Castle) says the “retreat is only the latest setback for Mrs. May
who last week averted the resignation of her Brexit secretary, David Davis,
then faced criticism in leaked comments from her foreign secretary, Boris
Johnson, who accused her government of lacking ‘guts.’”

        The AP
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(6/12, Lawless) says May “staved off defeat by offering concessions to
lawmakers who want to soften the terms of the UK’s exit from the European
Union.” By a vote of 324 to 298, lawmakers “rejected a move to give the
House of Commons power to send the government back to the negotiating table
if lawmakers don’t like the terms of the Brexit deal struck with the
EU.” Bloomberg
News
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(6/12, Donaldson, Hutton) says May won the vote “after last-minute
horse-trading, some of it in the open on the floor of the House of Commons
– some behind closed doors.”
US Unveils “Unofficial Embassy” In Taiwan.

The New York Times
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(6/12, Horton) reports the US “unveiled its unofficial embassy in Taiwan’s
capital on Tuesday, holding a low-key ceremony that signaled its support
for the self-governing island while also trying to avoid a bigger clash
with China.” While Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and her predecessor
“both attended the dedication of the new, $250 million compound of the
American Institute in Taiwan, the highest-ranking attendee from Washington
was Marie Royce, the assistant secretary of state for educational and
cultural affairs.” According to the Times, “there had been speculation that
President Trump might make a bolder show of support for Taiwan,” but the
“lack of cabinet-level visitors from Washington displayed the Trump
administration’s unwillingness to upset China.”
Domestic Policy
Media Analyses: Court Decision On AT&T-Time Merger A Loss For Trump, DOJ.

Media reports, which included stories on all three major network newscasts,
described a court ruling allowing the AT&T-Time Warner merger as a clear
loss for President Trump and his Justice Department. The AP
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(6/12, Swoyer) reports “District Judge Richard Leon announced the decision
Tuesday, bringing the biggest antitrust trial in years to an end,” and ABC
World News Tonight
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(6/12, story 6, 0:20, Muir) that “the $85 million deal combines Time
Warner’s programming resources, including HBO and CNN, with the
distribution reach of AT&T, setting it up to compete with Amazon and
Netflix.” The decision, is added, “is a defeat for the White House, that
opposed the deal.” NBC Nightly News
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(6/12, story 5, 1:50, Holt) also referred to “a defeat for the Trump
Administration in court,” and the Los Angeles Times
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(6/12, Puzzanghera) to a “a stinging defeat to the Trump administration.” USA
Today
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(6/12, Baig) reports that “suspense about the outcome has been building
since the trial ended April 30,” and that “a new twist emerged in early May
with the revelation that AT&T paid...Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen
$600,000 for consulting services at the time the company was seeking
regulatory approval for the merger.”

        Brian Stelter said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(6/12), “I think this announcement by the judge lends more credence to the
suspicion that somehow, some way...Trump had something to do with the DOJ’s
action here. This was a strange move by the DOJ to try to block this media
merger. ... There was suspicions and theories that somehow Trump’s disdain
for CNN was a factor.” There was “not proof of this but it was a
widely-held suspicion and it was a cloud over the entire case.” Jeffrey
Toobin, also on CNN’s Situation Room
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(6/12), argued that “this was such a fiasco for the Justice Department it
raises the question of why this lawsuit was brought in the first place.
Conservatives, Republicans generally don’t believe in stopping mergers. The
only thing we know about the origin of this case is that candidate Trump
and [President] Donald Trump denounced this merger in advance and also
indicated, as we have heard many times, that he hates CNN.”

        Under the headline “Trump Gambles And Loses On AT&T,” the New York
Times
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(6/12) editorializes that “Trump’s chilling campaign to politicize the
Justice Department ran into a stinging rebuke on Tuesday.” The New York
Times
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(6/12, Kang) also reports that “Trump, while still a candidate, said he
would block the deal ‘because it’s too much concentration of power in the
hands of too few.’” His “comments and his repeated criticism of CNN, which
is owned by Time Warner’s unit Turner Broadcasting, raised speculation that
Mr. Trump had pushed...the Justice Department to block the deal.”

        The Washington Post
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(6/12, Romm, Fung) reports, meanwhile, that “the decision amounts to a
stunning loss for Makan Delrahim,” who is “Trump’s chief antitrust
regulator.” DOJ “had not lost an antitrust case since 2004, and since the
Nixon administration, the agency had not challenged in court a so-called
vertical deal, in which companies in different lines of businesses seek to
merge.” In a statement, Delrahim “said he was ‘disappointed’ in the ruling,
saying that his division would ‘consider next steps in light of our
commitment to preserving competition.’” Politico
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(6/12, Overly) notes that “speaking to reporters outside the courthouse,”
Delrahim also said, “We’re going to have to review the opinion to see what
impact it will have on other mergers.” Bloomberg News
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(6/12, McLaughlin, Harris, Moritz, Larson) reports DOJ “has six days to ask
the judge to stay his ruling, though Leon said he hoped the government
would have the ‘good judgment, wisdom and the courage’ not to do so.”

        The CBS Evening News
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(6/12, story 4, 1:45, Schlesinger) indicated that “securities lawyers...say
this could pave the way for something called...a vertical merger,” which
“is the combination of companies that do not produce competing products. In
this case, one makes media content, the other distributes it. So health
care companies, media, and Telecom companies, they are waiting in the
wings,” and “this could have a huge implication for a lot of mergers that
are on the horizon.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(6/12, Cohen), The Hill
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(6/12, Neidig), Reuters
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(6/12, Bartz) and Wall Street Journal
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(6/12, Kendall, Fitzgerald), among other news outlets, run similar reports
on the court decision. In an editorial, the Wall Street Journal
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(6/12) praises the judge’s ruling allowing the merger, and urges DOJ to
avoid another embarrassing legal defeat but not appealing it.
Rosenstein Threatened To Subpoena House Intelligence Committee.

On its website, Fox News
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(6/12, Herridge) cites emails which show that in a January 2018 meeting
involving senior FBI and Justice Department officials and members of the
House Intelligence Committee, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
“threatened to ‘subpoena’ emails, phone records and other documents from
lawmakers and staff.” The committee’s then-senior counsel for
counterterrorism Kash Patel wrote to the House Office of General Counsel
that Rosenstein went “so far as to say that if the Committee likes being
litigators, then ‘we [DOJ] too [are] litigators, and we will subpoena your
records and your emails,’ referring to HPSCI [House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence] and Congress overall.” A committee aide backed
up the account, writing, “Let me just add that watching the Deputy Attorney
General launch a sustained personal attack against a congressional staffer
in retaliation for vigorous oversight was astonishing and disheartening.
... Also, having the nation’s #1 (for these matters) law enforcement
officer threaten to ‘subpoena your calls and emails’ was downright
chilling.”

        Attorney General Sessions said on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson
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(6/12) that “the FBI director, the senior ethics attorney for the
Department of Justice, who was in the room, say that is a
mischaracterization, really, of what occurred.” Sessions added, “I’m
confident that Deputy Rosenstein, 28 years and the Department of Justice
did not improperly threaten anyone on that occasion.”

        *DOJ To Brief Lawmakers On Mueller Investigation. *The Washington
Times
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(6/12, Mordock) reports that DOJ will meet with “top lawmakers” again on
Thursday “to review documents related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s
Russia investigation and claims U.S. Intelligence spied on President
Trump’s 2016 campaign.” According to a DOJ official, the meeting is being
held at the request of House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes “and will
answer questions raised during last months meetings.”

        *Johnson Questions FBI Redactions In Strzok Texts. *The Daily Caller
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(6/12, Ross) reports that Senate Homeland Security Chairman Ron Johnson “is
asking the FBI about ‘highly questionable’ redactions in text messages
exchanged between two bureau officials who worked on the Hillary Clinton
and Trump campaign investigations.” In a letter to FBI Director Christopher
Wray, Johnson “flagged several redactions in text messages, which he said
the bureau made ‘without apparent legitimate reasons.’” Among the texts
singled out by Johnson were an October 2016 message that “suggested that
FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok was locked in a battle with
another government official over a secret surveillance warrant.” and a July
2016 text in which “Strzok suggested that the FBI lacked the resources to
conduct a thorough investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private
email server.”

        *Mueller Court Filing Says Russian Intelligence Continues To Meddle
In US Elections. *According to the AP
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(6/12, Day), Mueller’s prosecutors are “worried that Russian intelligence
services will use a criminal case in Washington to gather information
about...U.S. intelligence-gathering methods,” and “are asking a federal
judge to impose limits on the information that can be shared by attorneys
in the first criminal case directly related to Russian attempts to
interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” The AP says , “So far,
only one defendant, Concord Management and Consulting LLC, has appeared in
the case, and prosecutors say they’re worried information they provide to
the company’s attorneys could end up in the hands of other defendants or
Russian spy agencies.”

        Bloomberg News
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(6/12, Voreacos, Harris) reports that Mueller “warned that Russian
intelligence services still have active ‘interference operations’ into U.S.
elections and that handing over certain evidence in a criminal case could
imperil ongoing investigations.” Prosecutors wrote that the evidence
“includes between 1.5 and 2 terabytes of data and involves U.S. residents
not charged with crimes who the government says were unwittingly recruited
by Russians to engage in political activity.” According to prosecutors,
“unauthorized disclosure of such evidence would help foreign intelligence
services in Russia and elsewhere while undermining U.S. law enforcement and
national security investigations.”

        *Mueller Must Name Those Involved In Manafort’s Alleged Lobbying
Campaign For Ukraine. *Politico
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(6/12, Gerstein) reports that in “a rare courtroom win” for former Trump
campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s defense, Judge Amy Berman Jackson “has
ordered special counsel Robert Mueller to identify by Friday all the
individuals and organizations involved in” Manafort’s “alleged scheme to
lobby on behalf of Ukraine without registering as a foreign agent under
U.S. law.” The people Mueller will be required to identify to the defense
include “top European former politicians who took part in the influence
campaign, as well as others whose testimony Manafort has been accused of
trying to influence in recent months.”

        The Washington Post
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(6/12, Hsu) says that although Jackson “mostly denied Manafort’s challenge
to the legal adequacy of his indictment in the District for conspiracy and
money laundering,” she “found what she called ‘one minor exception’ in
saying Manafort’s legal team should be given the names of the politicians
and others to help him prepare for ‘a complex trial with a voluminous
record within a relatively short period of time.’” Jackson said Manafort
“should not have to be surprised at a later point by the addition of a new
name or allegation.”Bloomberg News
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(6/12) also reports on Jackson’s ruling.

        *King: DOJ IG’s Report Will “Devastatingly” Show Missteps By Comey,
McCabe. *The Washington Examiner
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(6/12) Tuesday that the report from DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz
will “devastatingly” show “the missteps from former FBI Director James
Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.” King said, “The
[inspector general] report, I think it’s going to show devastatingly, it
will show improprieties here by Director Comey and the way he proceeded,
and also Andrew McCabe, at the very least, plus the two love birds.” The
“two love birds” “are FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, who were
engaged in an extramarital affair and were found to have exchanged
derogatory messages about President Trump before the 2016 election.”

        *McCabe Sues FBI, DOJ, IG. *The Washington Times
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(6/12, Swoyer) reports that former FBI Director Andrew McCabe has filed a
lawsuit against the FBI, DOJ, and its IG in federal court in Washington,
“alleging the Trump administration violated procedures when it fired him in
March just hours before his retirement.” McCabe’s attorneys “argue that the
Justice Department is refusing to hand over documents relating to the
policies and procedures related to Mr. McCabe’s dismissal because it fears
further litigation.”

        *Rivkin, Casey Op-Ed: Trump Has Constitutional Authority To Order
Investigations. *In an op-ed for the Washington Post
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(6/12), David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, who served in the Justice
Department under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, write that
it is “puzzling to see so much criticism of President Trump’s demand that
the Justice Department investigate allegations about his presidential
campaign being improperly subjected to an FBI counter intelligence probe”
and “his instruction to the Justice Department and the FBI that they should
grant congressional requests for information about that matter,” since
under the Constitution, the President “has the authority to determine what
matters will, and will not, be investigated and prosecuted by the U.S.
government.” They conclude that regardless of one’s views on “the wisdom of
Trump’s directives, fidelity to the Constitution best protects our
democracy in the long run.”

        *Cohen Expects To Be Indicted Soon. *The New York Daily News
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(6/12, Sommerfeldt) reports that “a person familiar with the matter” said
Tuesday that President Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen “expects to be put in
cuffs any day now, possibly opening up his top client to legal
complications.” According to the source, Cohen “has been telling friends he
fears he will soon be indicted and arrested over the federal investigation
he’s facing in New York.”

        *Avenatti Says Russian Government Is Trying To Plant Negative
Stories About Him. *The Daily Caller
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(6/12, Simonson) reports that Stormy Daniels’ attorney Michael Avenatti told
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The Daily Beast Tuesday “that he believes the Russian government is trying
to plant damaging stories about him in the press, without any evidence to
support this claim.” Avenatti, who “claims two members of the media and a
‘high ranking American intelligence official’ informed him of the Russian
plot,” said, “They’re doing it because they see me as a threat, a
considerable threat. ... If we weren’t a threat, none of this would be
happening.” Avenatti added that “members of the Russian government are
trying to spread a story that he once traveled to Moscow and had sexual
relationships with several women during his trip.”
South Carolina Rep. Sanford’s Loss Among Host Of Primary Results Yesterday.

Voters went to the polls yesterday to decide a number of closely-watched
primaries in South Carolina, Virginia, Nevada, North Dakota, and Maine.

        *In “Startling Upset,” Trump-Critic Sanford Ousted In GOP Primary. *SC1
Rep. Mark Sanford (R), a critic of President Trump, on Tuesday was defeated
in the GOP primary election by freshman state Rep. Katie Arrington
(R). The Columbia
(SC) State
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(6/12) describes the outcome as “a startling upset,” and adds that
Arrington’s “campaign strategy was to align herself with...Trump and harp
on Sanford’s criticism of the president. She received a last-minute boost
from Trump, who endorsed her in a tweet three hours before polls closed.”
McClatchy
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(6/13, Douglas) reports that Sanford was “stunned” by Arrington, “powered
by a strong last-minute endorsement from...Trump.” McClatchy adds that “the
message from voters was clear. ‘It says the Trump factor matters here,’
Kendra Stewart, a College of Charleston political science professor, said
Tuesday night. ‘In South Carolina, it’s very unusual for an incumbent to
lose a seat. ... Almost more so than anywhere else, South Carolina likes to
elect the known quantity, the person with the most name recognition. Going
into this race, that was Mark Sanford.’”

        *In Tweet Today, Trump Hails Arrington’s Victory, Touts His Support
For Her. *Trump tweeted
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this morning, “My political representatives didn’t want me to get involved
in the Mark Sanford primary thinking that Sanford would easily win – but
with a few hours left I felt that Katie was such a good candidate, and
Sanford was so bad, I had to give it a shot. Congrats to Katie Arrington!”

        *SC4: Primary Candidates In Race To Succeed Gowdy Head To Runoffs. *In
a report on the race to succeed retiring SC4 Rep. Trey Gowdy (R), the
Charleston
(SC) Post and Courier
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(6/12, Lovegrove) says that ex-state Sen. Lee Bright (R) and state Sen.
William Timmons (R) will advance to a GOP primary runoff, “according to
unofficial results Tuesday night.” Bright took “about a quarter of the vote
by the time most ballots had been counted in the early hours of Wednesday
morning.” State Rep. Dan Hamilton (R) trailed “just a few hundred votes
behind Timmons, both of whom hovered around 19 percent. That could be
within the margin to trigger a recount.” In the Democratic primary,
businessman Brandon Brown (D) and accountant Doris Lee Turner (D) also
advanced to a runoff.

        *SC5: Parnell, Who Admitted Beating His Ex-Wife, Wins Democratic
Primary. *The Charleston (SC) Post and Courier
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(6/12, Cranney) reports that ex-Goldman Sachs adviser Archie Parnell (D),
“who admitted to beating his ex-wife several decades ago, overcame a wave
of intense criticism from within his own party to easily win in the
Democratic primary Tuesday.” In the general election, Parnell will face off
against SC5 Rep. Ralph Norman (R) in a rematch of last year’s special
election to succeed now-White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney. The Post
and Courier says, “Parnell’s candidacy had been seen by Democrats as an
opportunity to flip the” SC5. However, in the wake of reports that Parnell
“attacked his ex-wife in a 1970s incident, his chances of” unseating Norman
“seem to have greatly diminished.”

        *Gov. McMaster, Warren Head To GOP Runoff; Smith Wins Democratic
Nod. *Gov. Henry McMaster (R) and businessman John Warren (R) are headed to
a June 26 runoff, after finishing first and second, respectively, in
Tuesday’s GOP gubernatorial primary election. In the general election, the
eventual GOP nominee will face off against state Rep. James Smith (D), who
won Tuesday’s Democratic primary. The AP
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(6/13, Kinnard) reports that McMaster, “an early supporter of President
Donald Trump,” received the most votes in the GOP primary, “but failed to
win the 50 percent necessary to avoid a runoff.” The Charleston (SC) Post
and Courier
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(6/12, Shain) reports that McMaster “is in a position to win the” GOP
“runoff...after receiving a larger-than-expected share of support from
voters in Tuesday’s primary.”

        *Trump-Supporter Stewart Wins Virginia GOP Senate Primary To Face
Off Against Kaine. *Prince William County Board of Supervisors chief Corey
Stewart (R), a vocal supporter of President Trump, on Tuesday won
Virginia’s GOP Senate primary, earning the right to face off against Sen.
Tim Kaine (D) in November’s election. The AP
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(6/12, Suderman) reports that Stewart, who defeated state Del. Nick Freitas
(R) and minister E.W. Jackson (R), “has promised to run a ‘vicious’
campaign against...Kaine.” The AP adds that Stewart – “who favors keeping
Confederate monuments – had long been on the fringe of the state’s GOP; now
the win makes him the standard-bearer of a deeply divided party that hasn’t
won a statewide race in nearly a decade.” The Washington Times
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(6/12, Sherfinski) reports that Stewart “rode a pro-Trump message to
narrowly win the” GOP primary.’ The Times says, “With 100 percent of
precincts reporting, Mr. Stewart was at about 45 percent support, with Mr.
Freitas at 43 percent and...Jackson at 12 percent.”

        The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch
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(6/12, Moomaw) reports, “As Stewart’s hard-right supporters celebrated the
victory by a culture warrior who seems to relish poking the party
establishment, Republican moderates were worried Stewart’s rise to
prominence could cause other Republicans to sink, including a handful of
GOP congressional incumbents already facing tough re-election fights in
suburban districts.” On its front page, the Washington Post
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(6/12, A1, Schneider) reports that Stewart’s “presence atop the ticket will
cast a shadow over all Virginia congressional races this year. He’s sure to
excite the most fervent parts of the Republican base, especially in rural
areas, but his identification with Trump also could inspire Democratic
voters to come out against him.” CQ Roll Call (DC)
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(6/12, Pathé) reported, “Inside Elections rates the race Solid Democratic.”

        *Trump Tweets Congratulations To Stewart, Blasts Kaine On Crime,
Borders, Taxes. *Trump tweeted
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this morning,”Congratulations to Corey Stewart for his great victory for
Senator from Virginia. Now he runs against a total stiff, Tim Kaine, who is
weak on crime and borders, and wants to raise your taxes through the roof.
Don’t underestimate Corey, a major chance of winning!”

        *Wexton Wins Crowded VA10 Democratic Primary, Setting Up Clash With
Comstock. *State Sen. Jennifer Wexton (D) on Tuesday won the crowded VA10
Democratic primary. In the general election, she’ll face VA10 Rep. Barbara
Comstock (R), a top Democratic target this fall. The Washington Post
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(6/12, Portnoy) reports that the Comstock-Wexton matchup “will be one of
the most closely watched midterm elections in the nation.” In the
Democratic primary, Wexton “won about 42 percent of the vote, besting her
nearest rival, anti-human-trafficking activist Alison Friedman, by almost
20 points.” The Post describes Wexton as “the establishment favorite.”
The Winchester
(VA) Star
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(6/12, Castiglia) reports that in the general election, Comstock “has her
work cut out for her as she aims to keep her seat in a district that”
Hillary Clinton carried “by 10 percentage points in 2016.” CQ Roll Call (DC)
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(6/12, Pathé) reported that Comstock “was No. 2 on Roll Call’s list of the
10 most vulnerable House incumbents last month.”

        *VA7: Spanberger Cruises To Democratic Primary Win To Challenge
Brat. *The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch
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(6/12, Wilson) reports that ex-CIA officer Abigail Spanberger (D) “handily
defeated” ex-Marine pilot Dan Ward (D) in Tuesday’s VA7 Democratic primary,
earning the right to face off against VA7 Rep. Dave Brat (R) in the general
election. Spanberger received “more votes Tuesday than any other candidate
on the ballot in Virginia’s House primary races.” While the VA7 “leans
Republican, Democrats have cited a recent shift among the electorate. They
hope to score an upset against Brat.”

        *Heller-Rosen General Election Battle For Open Nevada Senate Seat
Now Set. *As expected, Sen. Dean Heller (R) and Rep. Jacky Rosen (D) on
Tuesday easily won their respective Senate primaries, setting up what will
be a closely watched general election matchup. The AP
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(6/12) reports that Heller is facing “a tough re-election battle that could
help swing control of the Senate. Heller is considered the most vulnerable
Republican US senator seeking re-election this year because he’s the only
one running in a state that Democrat Hillary Clinton won in 2016.”

        *Lee, Tarkanian To Face Off In Race To Succeed Rosen In NV3.
*The Nevada
Independent
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(6/12, Messerly, Snyder, Rindels) reports that businessman Danny Tarkanian
(R) on Tuesday won the NV3 GOP primary and will face off in the general
election against philanthropist Susie Lee (D), winner of the Democratic
primary, in the race to succeed Rosen. The Independent adds that Tarkanian
“jumped into the race in March – a day before the filing deadline – after
President Donald Trump nudged him out of the US Senate race against Sen.
Dean Heller with a tweet.”

        *NV4: Hardy-Horsford Rematch Set. *The Nevada Independent
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(6/12, Messerly, Snyder, Rindels) reports that ex-Reps. Cresent Hardy (R)
and Steven Horsford (D) on Tuesday easily won their respective primaries in
the race to succeed retiring NV4 Rep. Ruben Kihuen (D), “who decided not to
run for re-election after a series of allegations of sexual misconduct
surfaced against him in December.” Hardy unseated Horsford in 2014, but was
himself ousted in 2016 by Kihuen.

        *Laxalt, Sisolak Advance To General Election In Race To Succeed
Gov. Sandoval. *Clark County Commission chief Steve Sisolak (D) on Tuesday
defeated Clark County Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani (D) in Nevada’s
Democratic gubernatorial primary. In the general election, Sisolak will
face state Attorney General Adam Laxalt (R), who easily won the GOP
primary. The candidates are vying to succeed term-limited Gov. Brian
Sandoval (R). The Reno (NV) Gazette-Journal
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(6/12, DeHaven) reports that Sisolak defeated Giunchigliani “by 13
percentage points” in the Democratic primary, “a bigger-than-expected win
over his fellow Clark County commissioner. Some 12,000 votes separated the
pair after a bruising campaign battle that counted among the most bitter,
expensive state primary races in recent memory.”

        *North Dakota Sen. Heitkamp, Cramer To Battle In General
Election. *Sen.
Heidi Heitkamp (D) will face off against Rep. Kevin Cramer (R) this fall.
Heitkamp was unopposed in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, while Cramer
cruised to victory in the GOP contest. The Grand Forks (ND) Herald
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(6/12, Hageman) reports that Heitkamp is “the only Democrat elected to
statewide office in” North Dakota, where President Trump “won easily less
than two years ago. North Dakota’s race could help determine which party
controls the Senate, where Republicans currently hold a slim majority.
Cramer initially opted to seek re-election in the House but jumped to the
Senate contest in February after some prodding from Trump.”

        *ND-AL: Armstrong Wins GOP Primary In Race To Replace Cramer. *The
AP
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(6/12) reports that state Sen. Kelly Armstrong (R) on Tuesday “easily won”
the GOP primary in the race to succeed Cramer. In the general election,
Armstrong will face ex-state Sen. Mac Schneider (D), “who ran unopposed for
the Democratic nomination.” CQ Roll Call (DC)
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(6/12, Bowman) reported, “Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales rates
the House general election Solid Republican.”

        *Maine Sen. King To Face Republican Brakey, Democrat Ringelstein. *The
AP
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(6/12) reports that in his bid for reelection, Sen. Angus King (I) “will
face two lesser-known candidates who won uncontested primaries Tuesday but
now face a difficult challenge against a popular incumbent.” State Sen.
Eric Brakey (R) and teacher Zak Ringelstein (D), both of whom ran unopposed
in their respective primaries, will face off against King in the general
election.

        *Moody Wins GOP Gubernatorial Primary; Democratic Race Won’t Be
Decided Until Next Week. *The AP
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(6/13, Villenueve) reports that businessman Shawn Moody (R) “won Tuesday’s
ranked-choice voting [GOP] primary in the race to succeed” term-limited
Gov. Paul LePage (R), “while no clear majority winner had emerged in the
Democratic primary.” The AP “did not call the Democratic primary as no
candidate was close to the majority needed to be declared the outright
winner, so more tabulations are required next week under ranked-choice
voting. Last-place candidates will be eliminated and votes reallocated
until there is a winner, a process that may take more than a week.” In the
Democratic contest, state Attorney General Janet Mills (D) and attorney
Adam Cote (D) “both had more than 25 percent of the vote with more than 60
percent of the expected vote counted.” The Portland (ME) Press Herald
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(6/12, Thistle) reports, “With 63 percent of precincts reporting shortly
before 1 a.m. Wednesday, Moody had 55 percent of the vote.”

        *Golden Appears Likely To Emerge As ME2 Rep. Poliquin’s Fall
Opponent. *The AP
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(6/12) reports that state Rep. Jared Golden (D), who is seeking to take on
ME2 Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R) this fall, “had the most first-place votes in”
Tuesday’s ME2 Democratic primary, “but it’ll take additional tabulations to
determine if he’s” advanced to the general election. Golden “had collected
about 50 percent of the vote with about two-thirds of the votes counted
early Wednesday. If there’s no majority, then the ballots will be shipped
to the state capital for additional tabulations next week under
ranked-choice voting.” Environmentalist Lucas St. Clair (D) trailed Golden.
The Lewiston (ME) Sun Journal
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(6/12, Collins) reports, “Since it is not clear Golden got more than half
the vote, it is possible ranked-choice voting will have to be factored in.
But given Golden’s lead, St. Clair has little chance of pulling out a
victory.”
Sessions Defends Decision On Restricting Asylum.

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(6/12) about his decision to restrict asylum for victims of gang and
domestic violence. Sessions said, “Seven years ago, 5,000 people applied
for asylum claiming a credible fear of being at home in their home country,
and they needed to flee that country. That number jumped to 94,000 in just
seven years. It is overwhelming our system. Over 80% of those claims are
being denied by the immigration judges as being not meritorious.” Sessions
added, “You do not get to come to America if you have a private threat or
someone personally attacks you. You do not get to have asylum for that.
It’s based on your race, religion or nationality, that you are part of some
special identifiable group that has been persecuted in your home country.
That’s what it takes to have asylum and we need to get this straight.”

        The New York Times
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(6/12, Robbins) reports that “immigrants and their attorneys” across the
nation “were grappling with the precedent-setting decision.” Sessions
“effectively narrowed the definition of persecution when he reversed a
decision by an appellate board in a 2016 asylum case.”

        *Immigration Judges Fear Sessions’ Agenda Could Impede Their Work. *The
New York Times
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(6/12, Benner) reports that “many” immigration judges say “Sessions’s
hard-line immigration agenda is increasingly standing in the way of their
ability to mete out justice.” Some “objected to quotas he imposed on them
this spring of 700 cases per year, as well as his ban on a bureaucratic
tool they used to reduce their caseloads,” while others “expressed concern
about the impact his zero-tolerance policy on illegal immigration could
have on their dockets, and his push for faster rulings.”

        *Administration May House Child Immigrants In Tent Cities.
*The Washington
Examiner
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(6/12, Giaritelli) reports that “an administration official” says the Trump
Administration “is moving forward on a plan to tentatively house
unaccompanied minors in tent cities located on three Texas military bases
due to increasing high border apprehensions and a shortage of beds for the
underage immigrants.”

        The Miami Herald
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(6/12, Ordoñez) reports that HHS “will visit Fort Bliss, a sprawling Army
base near El Paso in the coming weeks to look at a parcel of land where the
administration is considering building a tent city to hold between 1,000
and 5,000 children, according to U.S. officials and other sources familiar
with the plans.” In addition, HHS officials confirmed that they are looking
at “Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene and Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo for
potential use as temporary shelters.”

        *House Republicans To Vote On Two DACA Bills Next Week. *Politico
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(6/12, Bade, Bresnahan, Caygle) reports that House Speaker Ryan’s office
said Tuesday that House Republicans will vote on two bills to address the
fate of Dreamers next week. One is “a conservative proposal” drafted by
House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, and the other is “a compromise
package still being assembled by Ryan in consultation with moderates and
conservative Republicans.” The plan “effectively kills the discharge
petition campaign, a staggering loss for moderates seeking to pass
legislation protecting Dreamers.” USA Today
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(6/12, Collins) says the plan “means GOP leadership has avoided an
embarrassing defeat by rogue moderates of their party and every House
Democrat.” The group “was just two signatures away from putting into a play
a rare maneuver – known as a discharge petition – to go around the speaker
and bring legislation to the floor.”

        The New York Times
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(6/12, Stolberg, Kaplan) reports that House Republican leaders said Tuesday
that they are nearing a deal “on a Republican immigration bill.” Following
“a closed-door negotiating session,” with conservatives and moderates,
House Majority Leader McCarthy said, “We’re close, we’re very close,” but
he “would not provide details.” Politico
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(6/12, McCaskill) says House Majority Whip Scalise “expressed cautious
optimism...that GOP leadership, moderates and conservatives could reach an
immigration deal and put an end to a weeks-long intra-party impasse.”
Scalise is quoted as saying, “We’re not there yet, but I think we’re moving
a lot closer. And in exchange we would also make sure there would be no
discharge petition.”

        *Scalise Warns Against Passing Immigration Bill That Does Not
Include Border Security. *The Washington Post
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(6/12, Debonis) reports that at a Politico event Tuesday, Scalise
“warned...that it would be ‘devastating’ if lawmakers passed bipartisan
legislation legalizing young undocumented immigrants just hours before a
crucial deadline for a group of renegade Republicans trying to force votes
on the issue.” Scalise “said that the Dream Act – which would grant
permanent legal status to young immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as
minors – ‘threatens national security’ because it would not include
accompanying enforcement measures that President Trump and GOP lawmakers
are demanding.” Scalise is quoted as saying, “It does not secure the
border. There seems to be broad agreement we should secure the border.
Well, then, why not go and do it and then address these other problems?”

        According to the Washington Examiner
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(6/12, Weaver) Scalise “predicted Tuesday that House GOP centrists will not
get the requisite 218 signatures to move forward with a plan to force three
immigration votes at the end of the month.” Breitbart
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(6/12, Munro) reports that Scalise pointed out today that Rep. Dennis Ross
(R-FL) has announced that he won’t sign the discharge petition. According
to Breitbart, “Ross’s exit leaves the discharge group with few possible
signatories, such as” Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), “a farmer who has pushed
the GOP to expand guest-worker programs to help supply more cheap labor to
dairy farms and apple orchards.” Breitbart notes that FWD.us, “a
pro-immigration lobbying group for Silicon Valley investors, urged DACA
supporters to call Newhouse’s office to persuade him to sign the petition.”

        *DHS Unveils “Strengthened” Northern Border Strategy Amid Growing
Tensions With Canada. *Newsweek
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(6/12, Silva) reports that “with tensions” between the US and Canada “on
the rise,” DHS announced “a ‘strengthened’ Northern Border Strategy that it
claims will help ‘combat terrorism’ and ‘help facilitate travel and trade’
at its border with Canada.” DHS, which says the strategy draws upon the
findings from a Northern Border Threat Analysis Report delivered to
Congress in summer 2017, said that while the Northern border “remains an
area of limited threat in comparison to the U.S. Southern border,
safeguarding and securing the northern border presents unique challenges.”
It adds, “The most common threat to U.S. public safety along the Northern
border continues to be the bi-directional flow of illicit drugs,” though
the US also faces “potential terror threats...primarily from homegrown
violent extremists in Canada who are not included in the U.S. Government’s
consolidated terrorist watch list and could therefore enter the U.S.
legally at the Northern Border ports of entry without suspicion.”

        *USCIS Launching Office To Focus On Citizenship Cheaters. *The
Washington
Times
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(6/12, Taxin) reports that USCIS “is launching an office that will focus on
identifying Americans who are suspected of cheating to get their
citizenship and seek to strip them of it.” USCIS Director L. Francis Cissna
told the AP “that his agency is hiring several dozen lawyers and
immigration officers to review cases of immigrants who were ordered
deported and are suspected of using fake identities to later get green
cards and citizenship through naturalization.” According to Cissna, such
cases would be referred to DOJ, “whose attorneys could then seek to remove
the immigrants’ citizenship in civil court proceedings.”

        *Border Patrol Agent Shot Near Mexican Border In Arizona. *The AP
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(6/12) reports that a US Border Patrol agent “was wounded in a shooting on
an Arizona ranch near the US-Mexico border before dawn Tuesday in a remote
area known for drug and migrant smuggling.” Jim Chilton, identified as a
“fifth-generation Arizona cattleman” and “a well-known Arizona backer of
President Donald Trump’s efforts to secure the U.S.-Mexico border,” says
the Border Patrol “sent him an email saying the agent was alone when he was
wounded on the ranch and was struck in the leg and the hand. Several
bullets also struck the agent’s protective vest, which probably saved his
life, Chilton said.”

        The Washington Times
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(6/12, Dinan) reports that Chilton “said the shooting could have been
averted had the government taken border security more seriously.” Chilton
said, “President Trump needs to complete the wall and fill the 25-mile gap,
and move the Border Patrol to the international boundary rather than be
located 80 miles from the boundary.”

        *Nielsen Inspects Israel’s Border With Egypt For Mexico Wall Ideas.
*Reuters
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(6/12, Williams) reports DHS Secretary Nielsen “inspected Israel’s
fenced-off border with Egypt on Tuesday for ideas for the US border with
Mexico,” where President Trump has pledged to build a wall. A US official
who spoke to Reuters confirmed Nielsen’s visit to the Israel-Egypt border.
Azar Says He Wants To Preserve Protections For Preexisting Conditions.

The Washington Post
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(6/12, Goldstein, McGinley) reports that in testimony before the Senate
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Tuesday, HHS Secretary
Azar said “that he wants to preserve access to affordable insurance for
Americans with preexisting medical conditions,” but he “sidestepped
grilling on whether he agreed with a legal brief filed last week by Justice
Department attorneys stating they would not defend the Affordable Care Act
in a federal lawsuit by Texas and 19 other Republican-led states.” Asked by
Sen. Maggie Hassan if he would encourage the Administration to change its
position that “the ACA’s individual mandate...will become unconstitutional
next year – and, with it, the law’s insurance protections for consumers,”
Azar said that “we do believe in finding solutions on the matter of
preexisting conditions and the matter of affordability regardless of the
litigation.”

        *McConnell, Alexander Voice Support Preexisting Condition
Protections. *The Hill
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(6/12, Hellmann) reports that Senate Majority Leader McConnell said in his
weekly pres conference Tuesday that “everybody” in the Senate wants to
preserve protections for people with preexisting conditions. McConnell
said, “Everybody I know in the Senate – everybody – is in favor of
maintaining coverage for preexisting conditions. There is no difference in
opinion about that whatsoever.” McConnell’s comments comes as the Trump
Administration is “seek[ing] to have such protections overturned in court.”

        The Washington Times
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(6/12, Howell) reports that in “the clearest protest yet from the GOP,”
Senate HELP Chairman Lamar Alexander said Tuesday, “There’s no way Congress
is going to repeal protections for people with pre-existing conditions who
want to buy health insurance. ... Congress specifically repealed the
individual mandate penalty, but I didn’t hear a single senator say that
they also thought they were repealing protections for people with
pre-existing conditions. ... In fact, Republicans are seeking to expand
insurance options for Americans with pre-existing conditions through a new
Department of Labor rule that will make lower cost employer insurance with
patient protections available to the self-employed and more employees of
small businesses.”

        *Azar Lowers Expectations For Large Price Cuts From Dug Makers. *
Politico
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(6/12, Karlin-Smith) says HHS Secretary Azar “is lowering expectations that
drug companies will soon announce huge price cuts,” despite President
Trump’s May 30 claim that some major drug makers would announce “voluntary
massive drops in prices” within two weeks. Azar told the Senate panel that
although there are “several drug companies that are looking at substantial,
material decreases in drug prices,” it could take time for the cuts to
occur. Bloomberg News
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(6/12, Edney) reports that Azar said “it may be time to eliminate the
complex system of rebates that drug companies and pharmacy-benefit managers
use to negotiate and set prices.” Azar is quoted as saying, “We may need to
move toward a system without rebates, where PBMs and drug companies just
negotiate fixed-price contracts. Such a system’s incentives, detached from
artificial list prices, would likely serve patients far better.”

        The New York Times
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(6/12, Pear) says “Democratic senators blistered” Azar, “telling him that
the Trump administration’s efforts to undo health insurance protections for
people with pre-existing conditions made a mockery of the president’s
campaign to rein in prescription drug prices.” They argued that “that the
effort to lower drug prices and the push to end protections for people with
pre-existing conditions contradicted each other. If a federal court accepts
the administration’s argument on pre-existing conditions, they said, tens
of millions of people with such conditions could lose access to affordable
insurance that includes coverage for prescription medicines.”

        *DOJ Official Resigns After Decision Not To Defend ACA. *The Washington
Post
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(6/12, Barrett, Zapotosky) reports that Joel McElvain, who has worked at
DOJ for more than 20 years, resigned last week “in the wake of the Trump
administration’s move to stop defending a key provision of the Affordable
Care Act.” The departure of McElvain, who submitted his resignation the day
after Attorney General Sessions notified Congress that DOJ would not defend
the ACA against lawsuits filed by GOP-led states, “highlights internal
frustration generated by the decision, according to people familiar with
the matter.”
Trump Reportedly To Nominate CFPB Head Next Week.

Reuters
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(6/12) cites a “top US official” who said President Trump “has been
reviewing a handful of potential nominees to lead the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau (CFPB) and his final pick will be named next week.” The New
York Times
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(6/12, Rappeport) reports that acting CFPB head Mulvaney “has relished
curbing the agency’s power – curtailing its enforcement activity, easing up
on payday lenders and urging the agency’s career staff to be more humble in
their efforts to protect consumers.” In an interview with the Times,
Mulvaney “reflected on the future of the C.F.P.B. – or as he calls it, the
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection.” Mulvaney “has succeeded in
internally neutering much of the agency’s enforcement power.” In his next
budget request, Mulvaney “will be asking for a deep spending cut of about
20 percent. That would bring the bureau’s annual funding down to 2015
levels – or about $480 million.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(6/12, Lawler) reports that a CFPB official said Tuesday that the agency
“has started a number of investigations against companies” under Mulvaney.
The Examiner says word of the probes “could allay Democratic fears that the
conservative Republican has stopped policing markets.”

        *Trump Nominees Win Backing Of Democrats On Senate Banking
Committee. *Bloomberg News
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(6/12) reports that economist Richard Clarida, who was nominated by
President Trump to serve as Federal Reserve vice chairman, “won bipartisan
support from members of the Senate Banking Committee” today, “signaling he
will likely win confirmation in the full chamber.” In addition, Kansas
banking commissioner Michelle Bowman, who was nominated to serve as a Fed
governor, “also got a thumbs-up from both Republicans and Democrats,
meaning two of Trump’s three current Fed nominees appear well on their way
to joining the central bank.” Bloomberg notes that Clarida “received
support from seven Democrats,” while fiver Democrats voted in favor of
Bowman.

        *Krebs Confirmed To DHS Cybersecurity Post. *Axios
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(6/12, Uchill) reports that in a voice vote Tuesday evening, the Senate
confirmed Chris Krebs “to a top Homeland Security cybersecurity and
critical infrastructure post by a Senate voice vote.”

        *Friends Expect Kudlow To Return To Work. *The New York Times
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(6/12, Tankersley) reports that friends who spoke with National Economic
Council Director Larry Kudlow say the expect him “to return to his White
House job after recovering from a mild heart attack that landed him in the
hospital on Monday.” Treasury Secretary Mnuchin tweeted “that he had spoken
with Mr. Kudlow and that he was ‘doing well.’” The Wall Street Journal
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(6/12, Nicholas, Timiraos) reports that White House Press Secretary Sarah
Sanders said in a statement that Kudlow remained hospitalized as a standard
precaution, but, “His doctors expect Larry will make a full and speedy
recovery.”
Kwame Kilpatrick Asks Trump For Sentence Commutation.

The Detroit Free Press
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(6/12, Daalder) reports that former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick “has
asked for a commutation of his sentence, according to a public Facebook
post and records from the Justice Department.” In a message posted on
Facebook and the “Free Kwame Project” website, Kilpatrick said that he is
“ready (mentally, emotionally, spiritually) to go home!” If the President
does not grant Kilpatrick’s commutation, he “will remain in prison until at
least 2037.”
Cancer Research
Study: AI May Be Better At Identifying Skin Cancer Than Dermatologists.

The Healthline
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(6/11, Mammoser) reports researchers found in a small study
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published in the Annals of Oncology “that artificial intelligence can
identify skin cancer more accurately than dermatologists.” The authors of
an accompanying editorial
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wrote, “In the future, I think AI will be integrated into practice as a
diagnostic aide, particularly in primary care, to support the decision to
excise a lesion, refer, or otherwise to reassure that it is benign.”
Suzanne M. Olbricht, MD, FAAD, the president of the American Academy of
Dermatology, said in a statement, “Although artificial intelligence may be
a useful tool in skin cancer diagnosis, no machine can replicate the
high-quality, comprehensive skin, hair, and nail care provided by a
board-certified dermatologist.” Olbricht added, “While this technology has
great promise for the practice of dermatology, more work and research are
necessary for that promise to be realized.”

        *WPost Op-Ed: Dermatologists Can, Should Work With AI Not Compete
Against It. *Carrie L. Kovarik, an associate professor of dermatology,
dermatopathology and medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and
Caroline A. Nelson and John S. Barbieri, chief residents in dermatology at
the University of Pennsylvania, write in an opinion piece in the Washington
Post
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(6/12) that “last month, dermatologists were told they had narrowly lost a
competition” against AI at diagnosing melanoma. Kovarik, Nelson, and
Barbieri argue that “to optimize the potential benefits of artificial
intelligence while preserving the doctor-patient relationship, we believe
that collaboration, not competition, is the winning strategy.” The three
authors cite the 1960 treatise, “Man-Computer Symbiosis” by J.C.R.
Licklider, “which described how the two could have a mutually beneficial
relationship.” They conclude, “If artificial intelligence becomes another
tool in our toolbox, it will support the time-honored lesson that man with
machine is superior to either alone.”
Texas HPV Coalition Launching Education Campaign To Boost Vaccination Rates.

The Austin (TX) American Statesman
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(6/12, Price) reports that considering about one-third of Texas children
have been vaccinated for human papillomavirus (HPV), the Texas HPV
Coalition “on Tuesday announced the launch of a new education effort” which
aims to “educate physicians and parents to encourage the use of the
vaccine.” The coalition aims “to increase vaccination rates to 80 percent
by 2026, the 20th anniversary of the vaccine’s approval by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration,” the piece says, adding that with “only 33 percent
of children aged 13 to 17” being vaccinated, the state ranks 47th in the
nation for vaccination rates.
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“Why The North Korea Meeting Was The Trumpiest Moment So Far.”* In an
editorial, the New York Times
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(6/12) writes that “as a model for diplomacy, the Singapore Summit had its
highs and lows. But as a platform for displaying the singular performance
art of Donald Trump, it was a solid 10.” The Times adds that “if Mr. Trump
can crack this nut, he’ll surely get the adulation – not to mention the
Nobel Peace Prize – that he is so desperate for.”

        *“Trump Gushes Over North Korea.” *The New York Times
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(6/12) editorializes that President Trump “has made major concessions,” Kim
Jong-un “made fewer commitments than North Korea has made to past
administrations and merely reaffirmed a goal of ‘denuclearization’ that
North Korea first announced in 1992.” And as Trump “gushed about the
virtues of the North Korean dictator, just a day after he savaged some of
America’s closest democratic allies, he even endorsed the North Korean view
of such joint exercises” with South Korea “as ‘provocative.’”

        *“On The Brink Of Disaster In Yemen.” *In an editorial, the New
York Times
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(6/12) criticizes the Administration for “standing by” as its allies
“prepare to intensify Yemen’s misery” by a planned attack on the Red Sea
port of Al Hudaydah by a coalition led by the United Arab Emirates and
Saudi Arabia. The Times blasts Trump for having “emboldened Saudi and
emirati leaders” and now “sending mixed signals” on the planned attack. The
Times calls for the Administration to make “clear that an attack on Al
Hudaydah would be a disaster and that even considering such action reveals
how futile their policy in Yemen has been.” The Times concludes that
seeking “a cease-fire and a deal for neutral control of the port could be
the first step to a political settlement that is the only hope for peace.”
Washington Post.

*“Pope Francis At Last Opens His Eyes On Clergy Sex Abuse.”* A Washington
Post
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(6/12) editorial.

        *“The Post’s Endorsements For Prince George’s School Board.” *In an
editorial, the Washington Post
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(6/12) lists its endorsements in the nonpartisan primaries to fill four
seats on the Prince George’s County, Maryland Board of Education. The Post
says incumbent Lupi Grady deserves reelection in District 2. In District 3,
Pamela Boozer-Strother is “the most promising” candidate “to fill the seat
being vacated by Dinora Hernandez.” The Post endorses board vice chair
Carolyn Boston for reelection in District 6, and in District 9, the Post
endorses “incumbent Sonya Williams for a second term.”

        *“No More Concessions.” *The Washington Post
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(6/12) editorializes that the Singapore summit “was, without question, a
triumph for” North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who “was able to parade on
the global stage as a legitimate statesman, praised by the president of the
United States as ‘very talented’ and worthy of trust.”

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