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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Monday, June 18, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Giuliani: Trump Will Cruise To Reelection, Particularly If “Moron” Biden
Nominee. <#S1>

• Biden Visits Memphis As Part Of “American Promise Tour.” <#S2>

• Dailey Lewis Discusses Netflix Series “13 Reasons Why.” <#S3>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Conway: Nobody Likes Separating Immigrant Families. <#S4>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump Defends North Korea Summit, Says US “Got So Much.” <#S5>

• Family Of US Citizen Detained In Vietnam Urges Administration To
Intervene. <#S6>

• Afghan Eid Ceasefire Ends As Bombers Strike Jalalabad. <#S7>

• Saudi-Led Coalition Conducts Airstrikes On Key Yemen Port. <#S8>

• Syria Accuses US Of Bombing Military Positions; US Denies Report. <#S9>

• Conway Defends Trump Trade Moves. <#S10>

• Conservative Candidate Duque Wins Colombia’s Presidential Election. <#S11>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• One Dead, 17 Shot at New Jersey Arts Festival. <#S12>

• Giuliani Suggests Pardons Could Come After End Of Investigation. <#S13>

• Trump To Nominate Kraninger As CFPB Director. <#S14>

• Republicans Worry Inability To Pass Wall Funding Could Risk Government
Shutdown. <#S15>

• Pentagon Command “Empowered” As White House Cyber Structure “Dismantled.”
<#S16>

• Report: Charter Schools Excluding Minority Children. <#S17>

• Secret VA Nursing Home Ratings Hide Poor Quality Care From Public. <#S18>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• HPV Infections In England Have Declined Sharply Since Vaccination
Introduced. <#S19>

• California Regulators Propose Exempting Coffee From Cancer Warning
Regulation. <#S20>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S21>

• Washington Post. <#S22>
Biden in the News
Giuliani: Trump Will Cruise To Reelection, Particularly If “Moron” Biden
Nominee.

The Huffington Post
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(6/15, Date) reported, “With a strong economy and a new ‘success’ in North
Korea, President Donald Trump will cruise to re-election in 2020,” Rudy
Giuliani said in a Friday interview, “particularly if the Democrats
nominate a ‘moron’ like former Vice President Joe Biden.” Speaking with
HuffPost, Giuliani said, “They need someone new, who would be more
threatening to us. ... The unknown frightens me more than Elizabeth Warren
or Biden.” HuffPost added that Giuliani “reserved his harshest comments for
the former vice president. ‘Joe Biden is a moron,’ he said, claiming that
Biden finished last in his law school class at Syracuse University and had
been unable to understand issues Giuliani tried to discuss with him when he
was a federal prosecutor and Biden was a Delaware senator. ‘I’m calling Joe
Biden a mentally deficient idiot.’” Drawing from the HuffPost story,
the Washington
Times
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(6/15, Chasmar) further quoted Giuliani as saying that Biden is “also too
old. He’s four years older than Trump.” Politico
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(6/15, Forgey) reported on the HuffPost article, and added that Biden “has
been a vocal critic of the president since the 2016 campaign.”

        In an online article, CNN
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(6/15) on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time,” Giuliani sought “to clarify his”
remarks calling Biden “‘a mentally deficient idiot.’ ‘I didn’t mean that. I
meant he’s dumb,’ Giuliani” said. He added later, “I was asked, ‘Would
(Biden) be a formidable candidate?’ I said no. He would be somebody that I
think the President would like to run against. He never did well as a
national candidate.” CNN added that Giuliani “pointed to Biden’s faux pas
on the campaign trail and past plagiarism controversies, which he argued
‘indicates something even about character.’ ‘I think the plagiarism is
serious. I don’t think he’ll get beyond that,’ he said.” The Hill
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(6/16, Sanchez) reported that Giuliani “was referring to Biden’s
decades-old admission that he accidentally plagiarized while in his first
year at Syracuse University Law School. Biden said he didn’t understand at
the time how to properly cite his sources, according to The New York
Times.” Giuliani also “went on to repeat a claim that Biden was last in his
law school class, which Cuomo disputed. The Associated Press reported in
1987 that Biden graduated 76th in a law school class of 85.”

        *Meghan McCain, Avenatti Blast Giuliani Over Comments About Biden. *The
Hill
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(6/15, Gstalter) reported separately that Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen.
John McCain (R), on Friday blasted Giuliani over his comments in the
HuffPost interview. In a tweet, Meghan McCain said, “I am disgusted by
Giuliani’s abhorrent and idiotic comments about Joe Biden. Joe Biden is one
of the great political leaders of all time, one of the truly decent men
left in politics – and someone my family has looked to for strength during
the most difficult time in our lives.”

        Meanwhile, Newsweek
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(6/16, Hutzler) reported that attorney Michael Avenatti, “who is
representing Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against Trump,” on Saturday
slammed Giuliani over his remarks about Biden. In a tweet, Avenatti said,
“Dazed and Confused Rudy has lost his mind. His attacks on @JoeBiden are
absolutely baseless – just like his attacks on women. Joe is anything but
‘dumb.’ I finally agree with Dazed Rudy on one thing though, the most
compelling nominee in 2020 would be someone new. #Basta.’”
Biden Visits Memphis As Part Of “American Promise Tour.”

The Memphis (TN) Commercial Appeal
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(6/16, Warren) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday
visited Memphis as “part of the ‘American Promise Tour,’ which is tied to
his book, Promise Me Dad: A Year of Hope Hardship and Purpose. He spoke for
an hour and discussed the new memoir about his son Beau, who died of a
brain tumor in May 2015, during Biden’s time as vice president.” Biden
assured “the audience he had not promised Beau that he would run for
president despite a political article that said he would run because of a
promise to his son.”

        WREG-TV
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Memphis, TN (6/16) reported that Biden “got a standing ovation when he took
the stage. Biden is promoting his book – ‘Promise Me, Dad.’” In its
broadcast about Biden’s visit, WHBQ-TV[image: Image removed by sender.
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Memphis, TN (6/15) featured short interviews with some of those who
attended Friday’s event. For example, WHBQ-TV said, “Jessica Watkins drove
90 miles from Oxford, Mississippi to hear from the former vice president.”
Watkins was shown saying, “I just admire his policy and he truly is a just
[an] old-school statesman.” WHBQ-TV added that Biden “talked about his new
book, mostly. He also talked about his role in the civil rights movement
with Terri Edwards, the president of the National Civil Rights Museum and
[the event’s] moderator.”
Dailey Lewis Discusses Netflix Series “13 Reasons Why.”

On its website, Delaware Public Media
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(6/15, Steele) reported, “The Netflix series ‘13 Reasons Why,’ based on a
fictional young adult novel, chronicles the events that lead to one teen’s
suicide and contains depictions of mental illness, sexual assault and
cyberbullying.” In an interview, Beau Biden Foundation executive director
Patty Dailey Lewis and Jed Foundation director of high school programming
Sarah Gorman spoke about the series. Dailey Lewis said “having a show about
these issues isn’t necessarily [a] bad thing, if approached properly. ‘I
think it’s important that parents understand that these sorts of depictions
have to be part of an overall family conversation with regard to
cyber-bullying, appropriate internet use, sexual assault, all of the things
you mentioned,’ Lewis said.”
Leading the News
Conway: Nobody Likes Separating Immigrant Families.

The Administration’s practice of separating immigrant parents and children
who cross the border illegally was the subject of a great deal of
discussion on the Sunday talk shows. In addition, it receives heavy media
coverage this morning and on all three network news broadcasts, all of
which led with the story Sunday evening. Apart from comments from current
and former Administration officials, much of the coverage casts the
Administration’s immigration policies in a negative light.

        Presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway said on NBC’s Meet the
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(6/17, Todd) that President Trump “is ready to get meaningful immigration
reform” and that “nobody likes seeing babies ripped from their mother’s
arms.” The AP
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(6/17, Colvin) says Conway “distanced the Trump administration from
responsibility for separating migrant children from their parents at the
US-Mexico border, even though the administration put in place and could
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(6/17, story 2, 2:30, Snow) that there was “no suggestion the President
would reevaluate the legal interpretation that splits families.” Politico
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(6/17, Weaver) reports that Conway “rebutted claims that migrant children
are being used as a bargaining chip to push for new immigration policy,”
saying, “I certainly don’t want anybody to use these kids as leverage. ...
I saw a headline that breathlessly screamed as much and I object to that
very forcefully.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(6/17, Lim) reports that Conway called on the anonymous Administration
source who told the Washington Post that the White House was using the
separation of families as leverage to come forward. Conway said, “I want
that person to say it to my face, I really do. ... I’ll meet them at the
White House today because I think that is a disgrace.” The Wall Street
Journal
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(6/17, A1, Hackman, Radnofsky) says Conway’s comments came as critics of
the policy of separating families describe it as cruel and immoral.

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(6/17, story 3, 1:40, Quijano) that Trump this weekend “again blamed
Democrats for breaking up families at the southern border while pressuring
them to work with Republicans on an Immigration Bill.”’ Tony Dokoupil said
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(6/17, story 2, 2:00, Quijano) that while Trump “has repeatedly tried to
blame Democrats for the policy,” that is “not true, according to
independent immigration analysts and a review of past administrations.”
Doris Meissner, senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute: “[The
Trump Administration is] deciding to prosecute everybody. That then leads
to the need to separate families. The blame should be assigned to the Trump
Administration’s recent decision.”

        The Washington Post
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(6/17, Demirjian) reports that lawmakers from both parties on Sunday called
on Congress to pass a law ending the practice, “but the two sides remain
sharply divided on what that bill should look like.” Rep. Tim Ryan (D) said
on MSNBC’s Politics Nation
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(6/17), “The reality of it is the Republicans have all the power. They have
all the control in Washington, DC. President Trump, this is his initiative.
This is his doing, and we need good, smart, kind-hearted Republicans to
stand up and say this cannot go on any longer. I mean, we are taking kids
from their parents, we’re housing them, basically incarcerating them. This
is no way for us to run a country.”

        Meanwhile, The Hill
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(6/17, Samuels) reports that the White House “appears poised for a fight.”
This, as Sens. Jeff Flake and Susan Collins wrote to DHS and HHS on
Saturday “asking for clarity on the administration’s practice.” Flake and
Collins “asked for details on when children are separated from their
parents, what the purpose of doing so is, and how many children have been
separated during the asylum claim process.” Their letter “cites multiple
instances where families seeking asylum were separated, despite the
administration’s assurances that wasn’t the case.” Politico
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(6/17, Everett) says the letter is “some of strongest pushback the Trump
administration has received from congressional Republicans for its policy.”
The Washington Examiner
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(6/17, Cohen) reports that Collins “said Sunday she supports the
president’s efforts to bolster border security, but said that ‘using
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(6/17, Brennan), “From the experience of previous administrations, it does
not act as a deterrent to use children in this fashion. ... It is
inconsistent with our American values to separate these children from their
parents unless there’s evidence of abuse or another very good reason.”

        The AP
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(6/17, Taxin) says “a backlash is mounting, fueled by reports of children
being taken from mothers and distraught toddlers and elementary school age
children asking, through tears, when they can see their parents.” According
to the AP, the situation “has been brewing since the week President Donald
Trump took office, when he issued his first order signaling a tougher
approach to asylum-seekers. Since then, the administration has been
steadily eroding protections for immigrant children and families.”

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(6/17, lead story, 2:55) that protests are “growing over...the forced
separation of parents and children at the southern border.” Bloomberg News
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(6/17, Epstein) reports that as “public outrage” over the separation of
families “balloons into an election-year controversy for Republicans,”
several Democratic lawmakers were “traveling to the Rio Grande Valley area
in Texas on Sunday to meet with U.S. border authorities and tour a former
Walmart Inc. store that’s been converted into a detention center for nearly
1,500 immigrant boys.”

        Mireya Villarreal reported in the lead story for the CBS Weekend
News
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(6/17, lead story, 2:30, Quijano) at a protest march outside the facility
near the Tornillo Port of Entry in El Paso County, Texas, “thousands of
protesters chanted and held signs demanding the Trump Administration stop
separating children from their parents at the border.” March organizer Rep.
Beto O’Rourke: “We were told there were 98 kids in the tent city yesterday.
Today, we’re told there are 200 kids. We have to own this. We cannot blame
this on Trump. We cannot blame this on a political party. This is America,
so America has to show up.” Politico
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on Sunday that the separation of families at the border is “on all of us,
not just the Trump administration.” O’Rourke said, “Things have to be
really bad for you to leave Honduras, travel 2,0000 miles, if you’re lucky,
on top off – not inside of – a train known as The Beast, or La Bestia, with
your child. ... To literally take your and your child’s life into your
hands and hope that you will make it here. Once you get here to try to
request asylum, only to find that your child will be taken from you.”

        Meanwhile, seven Democratic lawmakers from New York and New Jersey
joined protesters outside a New Jersey immigration detention center to
demonstrate against the practice, Reuters
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(6/17, Ax) reports. USA Today
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(6/17, Alvarado) reports that the lawmakers said in a news conference that
“they met with five men at the Elizabeth Contract Detention Facility, four
of whom were brought to New Jersey from the US-Mexico border. Some of the
men, they said, became emotional when they spoke of their children being
taken from them. Some said they don’t know where the youngsters are being
kept, the representatives said.”

        Charles Blow writes in the New York Times
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(6/17) that separating children from their parents “may well be one of the
most callous policies the Trump administration has instituted in its zeal
to crack down on illegal immigration.” Blow writes that the “barbaric
policy is an outgrowth of [Trump’s] own personal cruelty. It’s absolutely
reprehensible and an absolute reflection of him.” Blow adds that Trump “and
every other politician who was silent about it or worse, endorsed it, must
be held to account at the ballot box.”

        *Nielsen Denounces “Misreporting” Of Policy As “Irresponsible And
Unproductive.” *The Hill
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(6/17, Manchester) reports that “amid growing public backlash,” DHS
Secretary Nielsen “defended the Trump administration’s migrant policies” on
Twitter saying the Administration “does not have a policy of separating
families at the border.” Nielsen tweeted
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“This misreporting by Members, press & advocacy groups must stop. It is
irresponsible and unproductive. As I have said many times before, if you
are seeking asylum for your family, there is no reason to break the law and
illegally cross between ports of entry.” Nielsen followed that tweet with
another
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stating, “You are not breaking the law by seeking asylum at a port of
entry,” and a third
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saying, “For those seeking asylum at ports of entry, we have continued the
policy from previous Administrations and will only separate if the child is
in danger, there is no custodial relationship between ‘family’ members, or
if the adult has broken a law.”

        *Bannon: Trump Doesn’t Have To Justify Policy. *The Hill
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(6/17, Sanchez) reports Steve Bannon argued Sunday that Trump does not have
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“It’s zero tolerance. I don’t think you have to justify it. ... We have a
crisis on the southern border but the elites in the city … want to manage
situations to bad outcomes. And Donald Trump is not going to do that, he’s
just not going to kick the can down the road. ... He went to a zero
tolerance policy. It is a crime to come across illegally and children get
separated. That’s the law and he is enforcing the law.” Bloomberg News
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(6/17, Brody) says Bannon also “said he didn’t think Trump was ‘going to
back off from’ the separations.”

        *First Lady Weighs In On Separating Families. *The AP
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(6/17) reports First Lady Melania Trump also weighed-in on family
separations Sunday, saying through her spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham that
“we need to be a country that follows all laws,” but “governs with heart.”
Grisham said Mrs. Trump “hates to see children separated from their
families” and hopes “both sides of the aisle can finally come together to
achieve successful immigration reform.” The New York Times
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(6/17, Baker) notes Mrs. Trump’s statement “did not directly take issue
with President Trump’s policy. Instead, by saying that ‘both sides’ needed
to agree, she adopted his argument that the situation was caused by
political stalemate rather than a policy he initiated.” However, The Hill
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(6/17, Samuels) says Mrs. Trump “appeared to express disapproval on Sunday
with her husband’s administration’s policy.” The New York Post
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(6/17, Hicks) and the Washington Examiner
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(6/17, Lim) also report briefly on the First Lady’s statement.

        *Laura Bush Op-Ed: Zero-Tolerance Policy Is “Immoral.” *In an op-ed
for the Washington Post
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(6/17, Bush), former First Lady Laura Bush writes, “I appreciate the need
to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this
zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.”
Bush writes that while people “agree that our immigration system isn’t
working...the injustice of zero tolerance is not the answer.”

        *Trump To Meet With House Republicans To Voice Support For
Immigration Compromise. *CQ Roll Call
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(6/16, McPherson) reports Trump will meet with House Republicans this week
“to express his support for a compromise immigration bill the chamber will
vote on later in the week, according to a source familiar with the plan.”
At the Tuesday evening meeting, Trump “is expected to express his support
for two immigration bills the House is planning to vote on next week: a
conservative measure by House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte and a
compromise measure negotiated by members from a cross section of the
conference.” Rep. Michael McCaul said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning
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(6/17, Bartiromo), “The President is fully committed to both of these
bills. He has put the full weight of his office behind it.”

        The Washington Post
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(6/17) says in an editorial that House Speaker Ryan ended a push by GOP
moderates to force a vote on protections for “dreamers” by “promising that
the House would vote on two other bills more heavily influenced by the
Republican Party’s increasingly toxic immigration politics.” The Post is
critical of both bills and argues that if they fail, “the moderates can and
should resurrect their effort to force votes on better bills.” E.J. Dionne
writes in a Washington Post
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(6/17) column that “on the cusp of victory, the so-called moderates caved
in to Ryan,” and while they “claim they could still fall back on their
discharge petition strategy,” since they “flinched once, there’s little
reason to believe they won’t balk again.”

        *Reporters Allowed To Visit Texas Border Patrol Facility. *The AP
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(6/17, Merchant) reports that the Border Patrol on Sunday allowed reporters
to briefly visit a facility in South Texas “where it holds families
arrested at the southern US border, responding to new criticism and
protests over the Trump administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy and
resulting separation of families.” The facility, which holds more than
1,100 people, is “divided into separate wings for unaccompanied children,
adults on their own, and mothers and fathers with children. The cages in
each wing open out into common areas to use portable restrooms. The
overhead lighting in the warehouse stay on around the clock.” The Los
Angeles Times
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(6/17, Hennessy-Fiske) says it was not permitted to interview those being
processed, and Tom Llamas said in the lead story for ABC World News
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(6/17, lead story, 2:55) reporters were “barred from bringing cameras
along.” Jacob Soberoff said in the lead story for NBC Nightly News[image:
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(6/17, lead story, 2:55, Snow) that there are “only four licensed social
workers that are contractors that are inside this facility for those 1,129
people. So with the increasing number of children separated, the manpower
simply is not enough and that’s something the Border Patrol said to us
tonight, even though they support this policy.”

        *Ryan, Trump Jr. Father’s Day Tweets Draw Fire Amid Separation Of
Immigrant Families. *The Washington Post
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(6/17, Selk) reports that a video in honor of Father’s Day, House Speaker
Ryan again tweeted
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a video he posted last Father’s Day “with his same advice on the ideal
family life, and the same grinny group photos of Liza, Charlie, Sam and
their dad.” But, “amid the Trump administration’s ‘‘zero-tolerance’
crackdown on illegal migration that has resulted in the forced separation
of thousands of children from their mothers and fathers,” the video got
more than 30,000 replies, many of which were “variations on the same theme:
images of children being physically taken from their parents, compared with
the family fun on display in the House speaker’s video.”

        Breitbart
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(6/17, News) reports that a Father’s Day tweet by Donald Trump Jr. showing
him playing with his children in a pool “provoked the outrage of left-wing
pundits, activists, journalists, and other Blue Check Marks.” After Trump
Jr.’s tweet
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which read, “Gonna be a great Father’s Day with these little monsters. Hope
all of you dads out here get to enjoy as much as I will. #fathersday
#familytime #kids #weekend,” the “backlash poured in quickly and steadily,
with angry progressives championing the cause of children separated from
their families because of illegal border crossings into the U.S.”

        *Parents Being Deported Before Recovering Their Children. *The New
York Times
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(6/17, Jordan) reports that “some parents are being deported before
recovering their children.” The Times highlights the case of Elsa Johana
Ortiz Enriquez, who “traveled across Mexico with her 8-year-old son,
Anthony,” and was intercepted by the Border Patrol at the US border.
Anthony “was sent to a shelter for migrant children” and Elsa “was put on a
plane back to Guatemala.” In a video interview from her home in Guatemala,
“she said she had no idea when or how she would see her son again.”

        *ICE Arrests Legal Immigrant Over 20-Year Old Domestic Violence
Charge. *The New York Times
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(6/17, Mervosh) reports on Jose Luis Garcia, a Mexican immigrant “who has
been a legal resident since the 1980s,” who was arrested by federal
immigration authorities who said they had a warrant “related to a
misdemeanor domestic violence charge that was resolved nearly two decades
ago.” The Times says Garcia and his family “are among those who have been
swept up in the Trump administration’s immigration policy, which cracks
down not only on undocumented immigrants but also on legal residents. The
administration makes it a priority to remove those who have pending
criminal charges or any convictions in their past.”

        *Family Of Immigrant Detained While Delivering Pizza Pleads For His
Release. *USA Today
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(6/17, Jansen, Today) reports that family of Pablo Villavicencio, who was
detained June 1 while delivering pizza to Fort Hamilton Army base in
Brooklyn, “spent Father’s Day pleading for his release from federal
immigration detention.” ICE is seeking to deport Villavicencio “to his
native Ecuador,” but “U.S. District Court Judge Alison Nathan issued an
emergency order June 9 preventing his removal. Another hearing is scheduled
for July 24.” Until then, Villavicencio “remains in custody at the Hudson
County Correctional Facility in New Jersey.”

        *Five Killed As Car Being Chased By Border Patrol Crashes. *The CBS
Weekend News
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(6/17, story 4, 0:15, Quijano) reported that at least five people were
killed Sunday when a vehicle “carrying as many as 14 people, including
undocumented immigrants, crashed...in Big Wells, Texas, 100 miles south of
San Antonio.” According to the county sheriff, “the vehicle was being
chased by Border Patrol Agents when it crashed.” In the lead story for ABC
World News Tonight
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(6/17, lead story, 2:55), Marcus Moore said that “12 undocumented
immigrants [were] thrown” from the vehicle, which officials say was
“traveling at 100 miles per hour.” The San Antonio Express-News
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(6/17, Luna) reports that the driver of the vehicle, “believed to a US
citizen, was arrested but no information on charges have been released.”
The New York Times
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(6/17, Mervosh) reports that Dimmit County sheriff Marion Boyd “said two
United States citizens – the driver and one passenger – were trying to
smuggle 12 unauthorized immigrants.”
Foreign Policy
Trump Defends North Korea Summit, Says US “Got So Much.”

Bloomberg News
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(6/17, John) reports President Trump on Sunday “pushed back against
criticism that he gave too much ground to North Korea at last week’s
summit,” tweeting
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that he US “got so much” out of the meeting. He also “defended his decision
to halt military exercises with South Korea in the region, writing that the
so-called war games can start again if a deal isn’t reached with North
Korea.” Trump tweeted
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“Holding back the ‘war games’ during the negotiations was my request
because they are VERY EXPENSIVE and set a bad light during a good faith
negotiation. Also, quite provocative. Can start up immediately if talks
break down, which I hope will not happen!” And while “some Democrats,
including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, have derided the meeting as
more of a photo-op than one of substance,” Trump tweeted
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“Chuck Schumer said ‘the Summit was what the Texans call all cattle and no
hat.’ Thank you Chuck, but are you sure you got that right?”

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(6/17, Bartiromo), “I think it was a good faith gesture, based on Kim
Jong-un’s agreement to stop nuclear testing, to destroy nuclear military
facilities, and also the remains of our prisoner of war victims over there,
to bring those remains home. ... In my view, the maximum pressure campaign
has been working.” He added, “I think the difference between this and the
Iran negotiations that Obama did was that he was not willing to walk away
from the table. I think this President is.”

        Sahil Kapur of Bloomberg said on CNN’s Inside Politics[image: Image
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(6/17), “I think from the President’s allies there is cautious optimism
that this is the start of something big. A number of things are true. ...
The President is getting points from the American public for attempting
diplomacy as opposed to nuclear sabre rattling and mean tweets. But it is
also true that there has been zero tangible concessions from North Korea.”

        *Yonhap: South Korea, US To Announce Suspension Of Military Drills
This Week. *Reuters
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(6/17, Smith) reports the US and South Korea “are expected to announce the
suspension of ‘large-scale’ military drills this week, with the provision
that they would restart if North Korea failed to keep its promise to
denuclearize,” Yonhap said Sunday. Citing “an unnamed government source,”
the South Korean news agency said the suspension “was likely to affect only
major joint exercises, not more routine military training.”

        *NYTimes A1: North Korea Reached Out To Kushner Last Summer Via US
Financier. *On its front page, the New York Times
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(6/17, A1, Mazzetti, Landler) reports Singapore-based US financier Gabriel
Schulze “approached the Trump administration last summer with an unusual
proposition: The North Korean government wanted to talk to Jared Kushner.”
Schulze “explained that a top North Korean official was seeking a back
channel to explore a meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un.” The
Times says that “for some in North Korea, which has been ruled since its
founding by a family dynasty, Mr. Kushner appeared to be a promising
contact,” someone who “could be a conduit to Mr. Trump and allow them to
bypass the bureaucracy of the State Department.” Kushner, however, “did not
play a direct role in back-channel negotiations with North Korean
officials, according to people familiar with the matter.” Instead, he
notified then CIA Director Pompeo and “requested that the agency be in
charge of the discussions.”

        *WPost A1: South Korean Firms Eager To Do Business In North.
*The Washington
Post
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(6/17, A1, Murphy, Lee) reports on its front page that “companies across
South Korea also are jockeying for any edge to jump into North Korea if Kim
Jong Un’s outreach eventually opens investment in a country that needs
everything from new roads to designer doorknobs.” The Post says that while
there is “still no way to predict whether North Korea could get an
investment rush from South Korea and other countries,” that “hasn’t
dampened the optimism of South Korean executives.”

        *Schumer: North Korea Deal Should Be Stronger Than Iran Nuclear
Deal. *The Washington Examiner
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(6/17, Lim) reports Senate Minority Leader Schumer on Sunday “condemned”
former President Obama’s “weak” Iran nuclear accord, “saying he wants
President Trump to forge a tougher agreement with North Korea.” Schumer
told John Catsimatidis’ “The Cats Roundtable” radio program, “I opposed the
[Obama] deal. I didn’t think it was strong enough. I thought the inspection
regime was weak. I certainly want to see a stronger one in North Korea than
the one that was proposed in Iran.”
Family Of US Citizen Detained In Vietnam Urges Administration To Intervene.

USA Today
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(6/17, Hampson) reports the family of Will Nguyen, a US citizen who was
“arrested June 10 at a demonstration against a proposal to create special
economic zones that would foster Chinese investment in Vietnam,” is urging
the Administration “to ask Hanoi officials to resolve his case.” Vietnamese
officials alleged “Nguyen stood on a police vehicle and rallied protesters
to defy police,” and that he “suffered a head injury, cuts and bruises
while being taken into custody.” Victoria Nguyen, his sister, “said Sunday
that a US consular official in Ho Chi Minh City, where the protest took
place, had visited her brother in prison and found him recovering from his
injuries and in good spirits.” Meanwhile, “Reps. Alan Reps. Alan Lowenthal,
Jimmy Gomez and Lou Correa – all Democrats – said” in a statement that
“they would contact President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo ‘to express the need for immediate action at the highest levels.’”
Afghan Eid Ceasefire Ends As Bombers Strike Jalalabad.

ABC World News Tonight
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(6/17, story 5, 1:50, Llamas) reported that an “unprecedented” three-day
ceasefire in Afghanistan collapsed Sunday as a pair of deadly suicide
bombings killed “dozens.” ABC (Panel) added, “A suicide bomb attack in the
eastern city of Jalalabad, killing at least 19,” and wounded more. The
Afghan government said “it wants to extend the ceasefire,” but “the Taliban
have said they would not extend the cease-fire, and already we’re getting
reports of a fresh wave of attacks on government forces.” Reuters
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(6/17, Jain) reports the Taliban said the ceasefire “proved the unity of
their movement and its ‘wide national support’” as President Ashraf Ghani
said he would extend the ceasefire by 10 days. The Washington Post
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(6/17, Constable) says that “after two days of rising hopes across the
country, Taliban leaders on Sunday brusquely rejected the government’s
proposal...and said they were ordering all insurgent fighters to resume
operations.” The CBS Weekend News
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(6/17, story 6, 1:40, Quijano) reported that “critics of the ceasefire say
it allowed thousands of armed Taliban fighters to enter cities around the
country. Now the fear is that they could launch new attacks.”

        The New York Times
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(6/17, Ghazi, Mashal) reports health officials in Jalalabad “said at least
17 people were killed and 50 others wounded in the blast on Sunday,” and
“feared those numbers would rise.” The AP
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(6/17, Faiez) reports that no group has claimed responsibility for the
attack, but it “appeared to be the work of the Islamic State,” which was
not included in the cease-fire.
Saudi-Led Coalition Conducts Airstrikes On Key Yemen Port.

Reuters
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(6/17, Ghobari) reports Houthi rebels “fought to keep control of the
airport in Yemen’s main port city of Hodeidah on Sunday as Saudi-led
coalition air strikes struck the compound, in an offensive that could be a
turning point in the three-year conflict.” According to Reuters, “Losing
Hodeidah would deal a serious blow” to the Houthis, “cutting supply lines
from the Red Sea to their stronghold in the capital Sanaa.” The AP
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(6/17, Al-Haj) reports Sunday’s airstrikes “were carried out in support of
ground troops loyal to the internationally recognized exiled government, as
they attempt to retake the airport.”

        *WPost A1 Analysis: Saudi Reforms Grant Limited Benefits To Women. *In
a front-page analysis, the Washington Post
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(6/17, A1, Sly) says that the “social reforms unleashed by Saudi Arabia’s
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman are bringing changes to many aspects of
life in the conservative kingdom, but none stand to benefit more than
women, whose treatment has set Saudi Arabia apart from the rest of the
world for decades.” To the Post, “the new Saudi Arabia appears to be
heading toward an ever-harsher form of authoritarianism, even as the
government promotes the social reforms that are starting to release women
from the most rigidly enforced gender discrimination in the world.” The
Post explains that political freedoms are “definitely not included” in this
shift, as evidenced last month by the detention of “17 activists, including
seven of the most prominent women who had campaigned for the right to
drive.” The move “sent a clear signal to all Saudis that only the
government can bestow freedoms – and the government can take them away.”
Syria Accuses US Of Bombing Military Positions; US Denies Report.

Reuters
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(6/17, Bassam, McDowall) reports Syrian state media, “citing a military
source, reported on Monday that US-led coalition aircraft had bombed ‘one
of our military positions’ in eastern Syria, leading to deaths and
injuries, but the US military denied carrying out strikes in the area.” The
strike reportedly took place in al-Harra, southeast of Albu Kamal,
according to state media. CENTCOM spokesman Maj. Josh Jacques told Reuters,
“No member of the US-led coalition carried out strikes near Albu Kamal.”
Conway Defends Trump Trade Moves.

Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, asked on NBC’s Meet the
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(6/17, Todd) about the impact of tariffs imposed by his Administration on
farm states, said, “Respectfully, the President’s position is we lost the
trade war a long time ago and you know who lost it? The American worker
lost it.” She continued, “You have over 300,000 new construction jobs;
300,000 new manufacturing jobs; more jobs created in timber and mining” and
“these were industries that were flat on their back in years past.” Conway
continued, “This will play out over time but he’s tired of the American
workers getting screwed.”

        *WSJournal: NAFTA Concerns Rattling Markets. *The Wall Street
Journal
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(6/17, Iosebashvili, Otani) reports that rising concerns about the fate of
NAFTA negotiations are rattling markets. While the economy continues to
exhibit signs of strength, investors and analysts are concerned about the
possibility of more restrictive trade policies if the talks fail.

        *Bloomberg News: Xi To Counter Trump “Blow For Blow” In Trade
War. *Bloomberg
News
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(6/17, News) reports that “in his announcement of tariffs on Chinese goods
on Friday, Trump vowed additional duties if China retaliated – which
Beijing immediately did. An announcement on US restrictions on investments
from China will follow in the next two weeks, according to Trade
Representative Robert Lighthizer.” According to Bloomberg, “analysts
increasingly expect” that while China has “shown a willingness to make a
deal on shrinking its trade surplus with the US, it has made clear it won’t
bow to demands to abandon its industrial policy aimed at dominating the
technology of the future.”
Conservative Candidate Duque Wins Colombia’s Presidential Election.

Reuters
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(6/17) reports right-wing candidate Ivan Duque secured 53.9 percent of
votes in Colombia’s presidential election Sunday, defeating leftist Gustavo
Petro, who won 41.8 percent of votes. Duque’s victory “reassured investors
but raised the prospect of changes to a landmark peace accord with” Marxist
FARC rebels. Duque, “the business friendly protégé of hardline former
President Alvaro Uribe,” wants to keep the nation’s economic policies
intact while changing the peace deal, which “he deems too lenient” on the
rebels. Petro, meanwhile, “had pledged to shake up Colombia’s economic
model.” The Wall Street Journal
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(6/17, Forero) notes Duque, a market-friendly conservative and former
attorney, has spent much of his career in Washington policy circles. His
victory was welcomed by the US, which views Colombia as a key ally in the
war against the cocaine trade.
Domestic Policy
One Dead, 17 Shot at New Jersey Arts Festival.

All three networks reported Sunday night on a deadly shooting overnight at
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(6/17, story 2, 2:00, Llamas) reported “police responded to shots fired,
people caught in the cross fire. Investigators say at least 22 people were
injured during the chaos” after “at least two armed suspects open[ed]
fire.” The CBS Weekend News
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(6/17, story 5, 1:45, Quijano) said “police shot and killed one suspect,
33-year-old Taji Wells. Another suspect, 23-year-old Amir Armstrong, is in
custody, charged with a weapons offense, and a third unidentified suspect
is in critical condition.” According to NBC Nightly News[image: Image
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(6/17, story 3, 1:50, Snow), “Police have recovered multiple guns and
believe it was a gang-related dispute.”

        The Washington Post
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(6/17, Phillips) reports Trenton Mayor Eric Jackson “condemned what he said
was not ‘just a random act of violence’ but a ‘public health issue’ that
follows gruesome school shootings that have reignited a nationwide debate
over gun control.” The New York Times
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(6/17, Zaveri) reports New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy “arrived in Trenton on
Sunday morning and spoke at Galilee Baptist Church about the need for
stricter gun laws.” Said the Governor, “It’s yet another reminder of the
senselessness of gun violence.” The Times notes that last week, Murphy
“signed a package of gun control bills into law that would, among other
measures, require the seizure of firearms when a mental health professional
determines someone poses a threat, and require background checks for
private gun sales.”
Giuliani Suggests Pardons Could Come After End Of Investigation.

The AP
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(6/17, Yen) reports Rudi Giuliani said on Sunday that President Trump
“might pardon his jailed onetime campaign chairman” Paul Manafort “and
others ensnared in the Russia investigation once special counsel Robert
Mueller’s work wraps up, if he believed they were treated ‘unfairly.’”
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(6/17, Tapper), “The President has issued no pardons in this investigation.
The President is not going to issue pardons in this investigation. ... When
it’s over, hey, he’s the President of the United States. He retains his
pardon power. Nobody is taking that away from him. He can pardon, in his
judgment.” USA Today
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(6/17, Johnson) reports that Giuliani “walked back earlier suggestions that
targets in the ongoing investigation” could be pardoned, but “left open the
possibility that the president could take action when the Russia inquiry
was concluded.” The Washington Post
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(6/17, Demirjian) similarly reports that Giuliani “suggested Sunday that
President Trump might pardon” Manafort “if he is convicted – but only after
[Mueller] has completed his investigation.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(6/17, Zumbrun, Hackman) reports that Giuliani also told CNN, “We want the
Mueller probe to be investigated the way the Trump Administration is being
investigated.”

        *Trump Says DOJ IG Report Leaves Russia Probe “On Pretty Weak
Grounds.” *In several Sunday morning tweets, Trump continued to comment on
the Justice Department Inspector General’s report on how then-FBI Director
James Comey and others handled the probe into Hillary Clinton’s email
server. Trump tweeted
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“Daniel Henninger of The Wall Street Journal: ‘This IG Report makes it
clear, as did Rod Rosenstein’s memo, that Trump was absolutely justified,
unquestionably justified, in firing Jim Comey. So I think the Mueller
Investigation is on pretty weak grounds right now.’ Witch Hunt!” Trump
later tweeted
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“WITCH HUNT! There was no Russian Collusion. Oh, I see, there was no
Russian Collusion, so now they look for obstruction on the no Russian
Collusion. The phony Russian Collusion was a made up Hoax. Too bad they
didn’t look at Crooked Hillary like this. Double Standard!”

        Most commentary agrees that while the report reflects poorly on
Comey and the FBI, it does not exonerate Trump or his campaign since the
report did not deal with the Russia probe. Josh Dawsey of the Washington
Post said on CNN’s Inside Politics
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(6/17) Trump’s “argument that there was no collusion and shows he did
nothing wrong is not quite right because the report wasn’t about him at
all. And what the report’s top line finding said was that a lot of mistakes
were made in the Clinton investigation, particularly by [Comey], but the
report did not focus on Trump.”

        Fox News analyst Marie Harf said on Fox News’ MediaBuzz[image:
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(6/17), “I think there is something for everyone in this IG report. ...
These FBI officials do have text messages that look terrible. They give the
impression of bias. The IG report also found no evidence that those
political leanings impacted the investigation. ... The President said a
number of things about the report that are not accurate and it’s on the
media to call those falsehoods out when he does that.”

        However, Rep. John Ratcliffe (R) said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning
Futures
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(6/17, Bartiromo), “The IG report really tells us that the problems at the
FBI and Department of Justice were more pervasive and problematic than any
of us realized. ... The [IG] report really provides a factual basis to call
into question the legitimacy of all of the actions taken, all of the
decisions made, and all of the evidence gathered in the first nine months
of the Trump Russia investigation.”

        *Strzok Willing To Testify Before Congress. *The Washington Post
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(6/17, Zapotosky) reports that Peter Strzok, the FBI agent who was removed
from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation “for sending anti-Trump
texts,” will “testify before the House Judiciary Committee and any other
congressional committee that asks,” according to his attorney. The Washington
Examiner
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(6/17, Cohen) reports that in a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Bob
Goodlatte, attorney Aitan Goelman says Strzok “will voluntarily appear and
testify before the panel, and ‘any other Congressional committee that
invites him.’”

        Trump tweeted
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Sunday evening, “‘The highest level of bias I’ve ever witnessed in any law
enforcement officer.’ Trey Gowdy on the FBI’s own, Peter Strzok. Also
remember that they all worked for Slippery James Comey and that Comey is
best friends with Robert Mueller. A really sick deal, isn’t it?”

        *House Republicans Say DOJ, FBI May Be Subpoenaed Over
Documents. *Bloomberg
News
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(6/17, John, House, Brody) reports that House Republicans say House Speaker
Ryan “has agreed to take floor action if the Justice Department and FBI
continue to withhold documents demanded by lawmakers on the investigation
into Hillary Clinton’s emails and the early stages of the probe into Russia
meddling in the 2016 campaign.” Rep. Mark Meadows (R) said, “There are a
number of members, including the speaker, that believe we have been waiting
far too long for documents. This week is the last chance for the benefit of
the doubt to be given to DOJ. Excuses will not work any longer.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(6/17, Cohen) reports House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Trey
Gowdy told Fox News that Ryan “led a meeting with senior Justice Department
and FBI officials Friday, and claimed he ‘made it very clear’ the House
will use ‘its full arsenal of constitutional weapons to gain compliance’ on
outstanding subpoenas.”

        The Washington Times
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(6/17, Swoyer) reports that House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes “said
Sunday there will ‘be hell to pay’ if the Justice Department doesn’t
comply.” Nunes said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures[image: Image
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(6/17, Bartiromo), “My confidence level is extremely low that DOJ and FBI
are going to comply. ... We won’t take ‘no’ for an answer anymore, and the
subpoenas will be complied with.”

        *Stone Says Meeting With Russian “Was Ludicrous.” *ABC World News
Tonight
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(6/17, story 4, 2:40, Llamas) reported Trump was “back on the attack
against Robert Mueller amid a new headline” about longtime adviser Roger
Stone “admitting he had contact with a Russian promising dirt on Hillary
Clinton in exchange for $2 million.” ABC’s Tara Palmeri: “Stone met with a
Russian in Miami in May of 2016. The man who calls himself Henry Greenberg
allegedly offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton in exchange for
$2 million. We spoke to Stone on the phone.” Stone: “I thought the meeting
was ludicrous – $2 million for classified documents. I had no interest. I
knew he would have no interest. Never mentioned to him or anyone in his
campaign.” Palmeri: “Stone said he ultimately did not agree to pay for the
dirt on Clinton. The President’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, claiming that the
President was not aware of the contact.” The Washington Post
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(6/17, A1, Roig-Franzia, Helderman) reports that Stone and Michael Caputo,
“a Trump campaign communications official who’d arranged the meeting after
Greenberg had approached Caputo’s Russian-immigrant business partner...now
say they believe they were the targets of a setup by US law enforcement
officials hostile to Trump.”

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(6/17, Brennan), “Roger Stone met apparently met with him. ... He’s never
talked to the President about it; where’s the collusion?” The Washington
Examiner
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(6/17, Lim) covers Giuliani’s remarks.

        *Bannon Says He “Couldn’t Be Prouder” Of Trump. *Politico
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(6/17, Weaver) reports President Trump’s former chief strategist Steve
Bannon told ABC’s This Week
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on Sunday that he “couldn’t be prouder” of the President. Bannon said,
“Donald Trump is accomplishing everything he committed to the American
people on the campaign that I stepped in as CEO. I couldn’t be prouder of
the guy. ... All he has to do is continue to hit those marks on that
whiteboard and he’s going to run the tables.”

        Fred Hiatt writes in the Washington Post
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(6/17) although Bannon was fired 10 months ago, in the Administration’s
“policy, foreign and domestic, and in the compliant Republican Party,
Bannonism is ascendant.” “Bannonism,” Hiatt writes, “encompasses a contempt
for democracy and a respect for authoritarianism,” an “‘America First,’
for-me-to-win-you-have-to-lose philosophy,” as well as “a contempt for
immigrants, for outsiders of any kind,” and “contempt for the government
itself.”
Trump To Nominate Kraninger As CFPB Director.

The New York Times
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(6/16, Thrush) reports White House deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters
in a statement on Saturday confirmed President Trump “intends to nominate
Kathy Kraninger” to succeed OMB Director Mick Mulvaney as the director of
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, pending Senate approval.
According to the Times, “Ms. Kraninger, who oversees the preparation of the
budgets for cabinet departments, was selected over the objection of some
officials inside the White House, who argued that her relative inexperience
– and association with Mr. Mulvaney – could scuttle her nomination.” The Wall
Street Journal
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(6/16, Clozel) reports Walters said Kraninger will “continue the reforms of
the bureau initiated by acting director Mick Mulvaney, and ensure that
consumers and markets are not harmed by fraudulent actors.” Walters added
the White House “hopes [Kraninger] will be promptly confirmed by the
Senate.”
Republicans Worry Inability To Pass Wall Funding Could Risk Government
Shutdown.

Politico
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(6/17, Everett, Bresnahan) reports that while Senate Homeland Security
Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Sen. Shelley Moore Capito “is
projecting optimism about securing money for Trump’s wall,” Republicans
“are privately worried they will never be able to pass a spending bill that
satisfies Trump.” Republicans’ ability to convince President Trump “that
he’s not going to get what he wants on the wall will determine whether the
congressional spending process can stay on track or a shutdown showdown is
likely right before the midterm elections.” GOP sources say Senate
Republicans “are currently preparing to meet Trump’s $1.6 billion wall
funding request from this spring,” but “the White House has since increased
that request to $2.2 billion.”
Pentagon Command “Empowered” As White House Cyber Structure “Dismantled.”

The New York Times
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(6/17, Sanger) reports the Pentagon has “quietly empowered” its Cyber
Command to “take a far more aggressive approach to defending the nation
against cyberattacks, a shift in strategy that could increase the risk of
conflict with the foreign states that sponsor malicious hacking groups.”
Cyber Command released a new “vision statement” saying the objective is to
“contest dangerous adversary activity before it impairs our national
power.” Current and former Administration officials say the change in
approach wasn’t formally debated inside the White House before it was
issued, and the Times adds that “the traditional structure of White House
oversight of American offensive and defensive cyberactivities is being
dismantled” under National Security Adviser Bolton, who “forced out the
homeland security adviser, Thomas P. Bossert,” and “eliminated the position
of White House cybercoordinator.” Now, the Times, continues, a “young” NSC
“staff member, with scant experience in the topic...oversees offensive
cyberissues.”
Report: Charter Schools Excluding Minority Children.

NBC Nightly News
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(6/17, story 6, 4:15, Snow) reported that a new investigation finds
hundreds of the nation’s more than 7,000 public charter schools “are
disproportionately white compared with other schools in the same
districts.” NBC’s Rehema Ellis reported on allegations that Lake Oconee
Academy, a charter school in Green County, Georgia, is excluding African
American students. While Lake Oconee Academy “told NBC the school is
public, free, and open to all students in the county...the facts show 73
percent of the student body is white, while, for example, just 14 percent
of students are white at the district’s traditional public high school.”
NBC noted that “a joint investigation by the Education News Organization,
the Hechinger Report and the Investigative Fund finds more than 700 charter
schools nationwide have a student body that is whiter than any of the
traditional public schools in the same district.”
Secret VA Nursing Home Ratings Hide Poor Quality Care From Public.

USA Today
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(6/17, Slack, Estes) reports that the VA has “tracked detailed quality
statistics on its nursing homes for years but has kept them from public
view, depriving veterans of potentially crucial health care information.”
According to documents obtained by USA TODAY and the Boston Globe, “nearly
half of VA nursing homes nationwide – 60 – received the agency’s lowest
ranking of one out of five stars as of Dec. 31, 2017.” While the VA made
some of its ratings public last week after receiving questions from the
newspapers, “statistics the VA has not released paint a picture of
government nursing homes that scored worse on average than their private
sector counterparts .”
Cancer Research
HPV Infections In England Have Declined Sharply Since Vaccination
Introduced.

CNN
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(6/17, Smith) reports, “The introduction of HPV vaccines has led to a sharp
reduction in the number of young women with the cancer-causing infection in
England, new data from Public Health England finds.” The vaccination
program was first started in 2008, and data show that “between 2010 and
2016, infections with HPV 16 and 18 fell 86% among women ages 16 to 21 who
were eligible for the vaccine during this time period.” BBC News Online (UK)
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(6/18) reports “experts say these results suggest that the vaccine...could
eventually lead to a virtual eradication of the disease, which kills around
850 women a year.” The findings
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were published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
California Regulators Propose Exempting Coffee From Cancer Warning
Regulation.

The AP
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(6/15, Melley) reports California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard
Assessment on Friday proposed a new regulation that would exempt coffee
from rules requiring companies in the state to warn consumers about
carcinogens in their products. If approved, the new rules “would be a huge
win for the coffee industry which faces potentially massive civil penalties
after recently losing an 8-year-old lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior
Court.” Bloomberg
News
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(6/15, Pettersson) reports the agency said in a statement that it had
“determined that exposures to Proposition 65-listed chemicals in coffee
that are produced as part of and inherent in the processes of roasting
coffee beans and brewing coffee pose no significant risk of cancer.”
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“Gareth Rhodes In The 19th District.”* The New York Times
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(6/17) endorses Gareth Rhodes in the Democratic primary in New York’s 19th
Congressional District. He is among seven Democrats competing to challenge
Rep. John Faso, “who is considered one of the most vulnerable Republicans
in the House.” The Times says Rhodes, a “charismatic” former press aide for
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, “stands out as the best candidate to take on — and beat
— Mr. Faso in November. He offers the combination of intelligence,
enthusiasm and empathy that is desperately needed in Washington today.”
Washington Post.

*“Mexico’s Could-Be President Is A Lot Like Trump. That Doesn’t Mean They’d
Get Along.”* The Washington Post
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(6/17) editorializes that Mexico’s front-running presidential candidate,
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “bears more than a passing political
resemblance to President Trump – which doesn’t mean the two are likely to
get along.” The Post explains López Obrador “has condemned” Trump, “vowed
to reject his demand that Mexico pay for a border wall,” and campaigned on
“policies aim[ed] at curtailing trade with the United States.” The Post
says many Mexican voters are less concerned, at least for now, “about bad
relations with the United States than the possibility that Mr. López
Obrador could lead the country back to the failed statist policies of the
1970s, or worse, the catastrophic ‘21st-century socialism’ of Venezuela.”
If he prevails, Mexican voters “will be, like the voters who backed Mr.
Trump, blowing up the status quo without a reliable sense of what will
replace it” – likely resulting in “more trouble on both sides of the
border.”

        *“Right Wingers Kill Clean Votes On ‘Dreamers’ – And Bring Up Two
Worse Bills Instead.” *The Washington Post
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(6/17) says in an editorial that House Speaker Ryan ended a push by GOP
moderates to force a vote on protections for “dreamers” by “promising that
the House would vote on two other bills more heavily influenced by the
Republican Party’s increasingly toxic immigration politics.” The Post is
critical of both bills and argues that if they fail, “the moderates can and
should resurrect their effort to force votes on better bills.”

        *“More Libraries Are Going Fine-Free. That’s Good For Everyone.” *The
Washington Post
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(6/15) editorializes that in “an era when e-books and new forms of
entertainment have threatened to drive down library use, public libraries
are increasingly looking to modernize and innovate. Some have turned to
e-books or digital literacy programs to reach more patrons. Others have
opted for a different approach: They have gotten rid of the pesky late fees
that drive borrowers away.” The Post concedes that while “not every library
can afford to...jettison fines altogether,” some “might find it more viable
to eliminate a subset of fines, such as fines on children’s books.
Regardless, the experiences of libraries that have successfully implemented
fine-free programs offer food for thought for other networks.”

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