Subject: FW: Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing for Wednesday, June 27, 2018
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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Wednesday, June 27, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden: European Leaders Worried Over Trump’s Disrespectful Behavior. <#S1>

• Biden To Deliver Keynote Address At Illinois Democratic County Chairs
Event. <#S2>

• Poll Shows Americans Worried About Future Of US Democracy. <#S3>

• NY Daily News Recounts Right’s Embrace Of Bakery Owner Who Refused Biden
Service. <#S4>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Media Analyses: Travel Ban Ruling A Major Win For Trump. <#S5>

• Azar Blames Parents Who Enter US Illegally For Family Separations. <#S6>

• Trump Again Asks For Wall Funding, But House Bill Appears Headed For
Defeat. <#S7>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump Warns Harley-Davidson Not To Take Production Overseas. <#S8>

• Trump Signals CFIUS Could Oversee Chinese Investment In US Tech Firms.
<#S9>

• US Wants Allies To Cease Importing Iranian Oil By November 4. <#S10>

• Helsinki Weighed As Possible Location For Trump-Putin Summit. <#S11>

• Tens Of Thousands Of Syrian Refugees Flee Toward Jordan, Israel. <#S12>

• Pence, Temer Discuss Venezuela. <#S13>

• Trump Awards Posthumous Medal of Honor To WWII Hero. <#S14>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Progressive Ocasio-Cortez Beats NY14 Rep. Crowley In “Shocking” Primary
Upset. <#S15>

• As Trump Casts Waters As “Face” Of Opposition, Democrats Fear Election
Fallout. <#S16>

• Trump Staff Facing Increasing Level Of Threats, Harassment. <#S17>

• House Panel Approves Resolution Directing Rosenstein To Turn Over
Documents. <#S18>

• Notre Dame Students Sue School, Administration Over Birth Control
Coverage. <#S19>

• CBO: Trump Tax Cuts Will Make Debt Situation Worse. <#S20>

• DOJ IG: Women Underrepresented In Key Jobs At Law Enforcement Agencies.
<#S21>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• Study: Genetically Modified Polio Virus Improves Survival Of Glioblastoma
Patients. <#S22>

• Women With Dense Breasts Have Higher Recall, Biopsy Rates, Bigger Tumors.
<#S23>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S24>

• Washington Post. <#S25>
Biden in the News
Biden: European Leaders Worried Over Trump’s Disrespectful Behavior.

In his Washington Post
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(6/26) column, Josh Rogin writes that according to former Vice President
Joe Biden, “European leaders see President Trump as increasingly
unpredictable, antagonistic and disrespectful, both in public and private,
and that is having a devastating effect on the US-European relationship and
the transatlantic alliance.” Speaking with Rogin, Biden said of Trump, “The
things that are the most debilitating from the perspective of most of the
Europeans is the way he conducts himself when he is with allies. Several of
them have said to me the degree of disrespect shown is debilitating.” Biden
was “referring to how Trump has publicly attacked several European allied
leaders, including British Prime Minister Theresa May and particularly
German Chancellor Angela Merkel.” Said Biden, “Several of them have spoken
to me about what was referred to as his gratuitous criticism of Merkel, who
is in a tough spot already.”

        In a broadcast this morning, MSNBC’s First Look[image: Image
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(6/27) reports that Biden “is speaking out about President Trump’s hostile
relationship to several of America’s closest allies. In an interview on the
sidelines of a summit in Copenhagen, Biden told ‘The Washington Post,’
quote, ‘The things that are the most debilitating from the perspective of
most of the Europeans is the way he conducts himself when he is with the
allies. Several of them have said to me that the degree of disrespect shown
is debilitating, has a profound impact on what our European friends think
he thinks about them. The consequence is disastrous for our national
security and our economic interests.’”

        Drawing from Rogin’s column, The Hill
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(6/26, Manchester) similarly quoted Biden, who “made the comments at the at
the Copenhagen Democracy Summit, which was attended by various western
leaders, including Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen and former
British Prime Minister Tony Blair.”

        *In Interview, Biden Quips, “I’m Not Looking To Live In The White
House.” *Politico
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(6/26, Nelson) said that Biden “joked that he is ‘not looking to live in
the White House’ in [the] interview” with Rogin, “hinting at a hesitance
toward running for president in 2020 without closing the door on a bid.”
Biden is quoted as telling Rogin, “I’m not looking to live in the White
House, I’ve seen it up close. But all kidding aside, I don’t know what I’m
going to do.” Breitbart
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(6/26, Caplan) reported that Biden, referring to US-EU relations in the
Trump era, told Rogin, “It makes me feel guilty about not wanting to [run
for president]. But it doesn’t make me want to.”
Biden To Deliver Keynote Address At Illinois Democratic County Chairs Event.

The Springfield (IL) State Journal-Register
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(6/26) reports that former Vice President Joe Biden “will be the keynote
speaker for the Illinois Democratic County Chairmen’s Association brunch
set for Aug. 16 at the Crowne Plaza in Springfield.” The event, “which is
always held in conjunction with Democrat Day at the Illinois State Fair,
will begin at 8 a.m.” Sen. Dick Durbin (D), who “helped secure this
summer’s appearance,” is quoted as saying, “Joe Biden was my Senate
colleague and remains my good friend. When I asked him to headline the
largest gathering of the year of Illinois Democrats, he didn’t hesitate to
say yes.” WAND-TV
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Champaign (IL)'s News at 10PM (6/26) reported that Biden “is coming to
reinforce momentum for” billionaire businessman J.B. Pritzker (D), who is
challenging Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) in this fall’s gubernatorial race.
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Springfield, IL (6/26) also reported on Biden’s slated visit.
Poll Shows Americans Worried About Future Of US Democracy.

James Hohmann reported on the website of the Washington Post
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(6/26, Hohmann) about “the sobering results of a major bipartisan poll
published Tuesday that was commissioned by the George W. Bush Institute,
the University of Pennsylvania’s Biden Center and Freedom House” –
organizations that “have partnered to create the Democracy Project, with
the goal of monitoring the health of the American system.” According to the
poll, 50 percent “of Americans think the” US “is in ‘real danger of
becoming a nondemocratic, authoritarian country.’ A majority, 55 percent,
see democracy as ‘weak’ – and 68 percent believe it is ‘getting weaker.’
Eight in 10 Americans say they are either ‘very’ or ‘somewhat’ concerned
about the condition of democracy” in the US. Former Vice President Joe
Biden “said the results show ‘we can’t take our freedoms for granted – we
have to work for them, and we have to defend them.’”

        Newsweek
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(6/26, LeBlanc) further quoted Biden as saying of the poll results, “It’s
also a reminder that our democracy has never been perfect, and we can’t be
complacent if we hope to continue to lead in the 21st century.’” The University
of Pennsylvania
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(6/26) quoted Biden as saying, “By identifying key challenges, we can keep
working – Democrats and Republicans, together – to strengthen and reinforce
the values that form the foundations of our democracy.”
NY Daily News Recounts Right’s Embrace Of Bakery Owner Who Refused Biden
Service.

In the wake of the controversy over the owner of a Virginia restaurant
asking White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her dinner
party to leave the establishment, the New York Daily News
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(6/26, Schladebeck) recounts how “the owner of a cookie shop” in Radford,
Virginia “turned down the opportunity to serve Vice President Joe Biden in
2012 – and the right embraced him as their small business hero.” Chris
McMurray, then-owner of Crumb and Get It, told a local TV station at the
time, “I have a difference of opinion of the folks in that campaign, that’s
what it was. Also, taking a stance for my faith, my faith in God.”
Leading the News
Media Analyses: Travel Ban Ruling A Major Win For Trump.

Media reports are casting yesterday’s Supreme Court decision
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upholding the Administration’s travel ban as a major victory for President
Trump – one that also tells conservatives that he made a good choice when
he nominated Justice Neil Gorsuch. In addition, reports and analyses state
that the court has likely emboldened the President to utilize his executive
power to curtail illegal immigration. The tone of much of the analysis and
editorial commentary, however, was mostly critical of the substance of
Trump’s order.

        All three major network newscasts covered the story last night. NBC
Nightly News
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(6/26, story 2, 2:15, Alexander) said Trump was “reveling in a rare
judicial win, but on Capital Hill,” Democrats bashed “the decision as
disappointing.” Sen. Mazie Hirono was shown saying, “Who’s going to be
next? Is the President going to issue an Executive Order against Mexicans?”
Meanwhile, “Keith Ellison, the first Muslim in Congress, warning the ruling
should make all Americans nervous.” Ellison was shown saying, “What they’ve
said is, as long as the President invokes national security, he has carte
blanche to do whatever he wants to anybody.” NBC Nightly News[image: Image
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(6/26, lead story, 2:45, Williams) led its broadcast reporting that “after
a year and a half of confusion, chaos at US airports for those caught up in
the first travel ban, repeated smack downs in the lower courts and
revisions from the White House, the court said this latest one can stand.”

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(6/26, lead story, 3:20, Crawford) referred to “a large legal victory” for
Trump, and showed him saying, “A tremendous success. A tremendous victory
for the American people. ... The ruling shows that all of the attacks from
the media and the Democrat politicians are wrong, and they turned out to be
very wrong.” ABC World News Tonight
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(6/26, story 4, 3:55, Muir) spoke of a “major victory for...Trump,” and
added (Moran) that “within minutes of the ruling” Trump “was tweeting
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victory: ‘Supreme Court Upholds Trump Travel Ban. Wow!’”

        The Hill
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(6/26, Fabian) reports that “during a meeting with Republican lawmakers,”
Trump called the decision “an affirmation of his hard-line immigration
policies.” Said Trump, “We have to be tough and we have to be safe and we
have to be secure. ... At a minimum, we have to make sure that we vet
people coming into the country, that we know who is coming in, we know
where they are coming from. We just have to know who’s coming here.”
Breitbart
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(6/26, Spiering) notes Trump also said, “This ruling is also a moment of
profound vindication following months of hysterical commentary from the
media and Democratic politicians who refuse to do what it takes to secure
our border and our country.” Politico
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(6/26, Nussbaum) says that “it was just five days ago that...Trump
committed a rare act of buckling to public pressure,” but yesterday “he
declared ‘profound vindication’ on his larger hardline approach to
immigration.”

        The New York Times
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(6/26, Liptak, Shear) notes that after the ruling was released, Trump
“vowed to continue fighting for a wall across the Mexican border,” and
Bloomberg
News
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(6/26, Stohr) says the ruling “bolsters the president’s already broad
control over the nation’s borders,” while the Washington Post
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(6/26, Rucker) quotes him as saying, “We have to be tough, and we have to
be safe, and we have to be secure. At a minimum, we have to make sure that
we vet people coming into the country.”

        The AP
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(6/26, Sherman) refers to “a big victory for Trump in the court’s first
substantive ruling on one of his administration’s policies,” and as “the
latest demonstration of a newly invigorated conservative majority.” The AP
notes that Chief Justice Roberts, who wrote the majority opinion, said the
ban is “well within US presidents’ considerable authority over immigration
and responsibility for keeping the nation safe.” However, Roberts also
wrote, “We express no view on the soundness of the policy.” The Washington
Post
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(6/26, Barnes, Marimow) says Roberts “tried to play down the political
aspects of the case,” and said presidential authority to ensure national
security “has not been undermined by ‘this President’s words.’”

        Nevertheless, Reuters
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(6/26, Hurley) calls the ruling “one of the biggest victories of [Trump’s]
presidency” that “ended a fierce fight in the courts over whether the
policy amounted to an unlawful Muslim ban, while also confirming broad
presidential powers over immigration and national security policy.” Reuters
adds that because Roberts’ ruling “affirmed broad presidential discretion
over who is allowed to enter the United States,” Trump “could potentially
add more countries to the ban.” The Los Angeles Times
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(6/26, Savage) calls the ruling “a major victory for Trump...as well as an
implicit rebuke to the judges on the East and West coasts who repeatedly
issued nationwide orders to block the travel ban.” USA Today
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(6/26, Wolf) notes “the 5-4 ruling reverses a series of lower court
decisions that had struck down the ban as illegal or
unconstitutional.” The Wall
Street Journal
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(6/26, Kendall, Bravin) runs a similar report, while Politico
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(6/26, Gerstein, Hesson) sees “a major victory” for Trump, The Federalist
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(6/26, Stotzfoos) “a big win to the administration on a key campaign
promise,” and Townhall
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(6/26, Pavlich) a “huge win.”

        White House Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah, asked on CNN’s
Situation Room
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(6/26) about Trump’s claim that he preferred the original travel ban which
“was struck down because it targeted Muslim countries,” said that an
“activist court in the Ninth Circuit struck down and passed a preliminary
injunction against the first order. And then there was a second order and
that was more narrowly tailored. We did that in order to implement the
President’s executive order and comply with some of the court’s concerns.
... I think the point here is that the differences between the two are
rather on the margins. The overall point here is that in the interest of
protecting America’s national security and the interest of ensuring safe
travel globally, the President has the authority and the right within the
Constitution to raise minimum standards that every country must abide by.”

        The Washington Times
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(6/26, Dinan) also reports that “the court refused to hold Mr. Trump’s
tweets and other campaign-era anti-Muslim comments against him now that
he’s in office, saying judges usually take the president’s actions on their
face.” They “ruled the travel ban was facially neutral, not the ‘Muslim
ban’ his critics had said.” Wrote Robert, “The text says nothing about
religion.” Jim Acosta pointed out on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image
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(6/26) story that Roberts “says the ban is squarely within the scope of
presidential authority,” but Justice Sonia “Sotomayor wrote, ‘The majority
here completely sets aside the president’s charged statements about Muslims
as irrelevant.” She added that upholding the ban “erodes the principles of
religious tolerance that the court elsewhere has protected, and tells
members of minority religions in our country that they are outsiders and
not full members of the political community.” CQ Roll Call
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(6/26, Ruger) also reports “the decision prompted a cutting dissent
from...Sotomayor, who wrote that the majority ignored facts, misconstrued
legal precedent, and turned a blind eye to the pain and suffering of
countless families and individuals.”

        The AP
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(6/26, Karoub) reports “Muslim individuals and groups, as well as other
religious and civil rights organizations, expressed outrage and
disappointment,” while the Washington Post
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(6/26, Hauslohner) says the “decision...added permanence to the sentiment
among many American Muslims that the government views and treats them
differently from other Americans.” USA Today
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(6/26, King) says “the ruling stoked more polarization on Capitol Hill –
and much of America – where partisan tensions run deep,” and the Washington
Post
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(6/26, Marimow) that “outrage over the decision was immediately palpable
after the ruling among protesters who gathered outside the court and loudly
chanted: ‘No ban, no wall.’” Omar Jadwat, “an attorney with the ACLU, which
helped bring one of the travel ban challenges, said in a statement the
decision ‘will go down in history as one of the Supreme Court’s great
failures.’” However, “there were congratulations within the Trump
administration and among Republicans on Capitol Hill,” and Attorney General
Sessions “celebrated the ruling as a ‘great victory for the safety and
security of all Americans.’”

        The Washington Times
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(6/26, Swoyer) reports “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appeared to
take a victory lap,” and Bloomberg News
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(6/26, Stohr) that he “implicitly took credit for the decision” by tweeting
a picture of himself shaking Gorsuch’s hand “moments after the court
released the ruling.” Bloomberg mentions that Gorsuch’s confirmation “was
possible only because the Kentucky Republican blocked former President
Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to fill a vacancy in 2016.”
The New York Times
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(6/26, Dias, Ember) indicates that “what many partisans on both sides
agreed on...was that Justice Gorsuch – who voted with the 5-to-4 majorities
in both cases – was an especially key figure in Tuesday’s decisions,
because he wouldn’t have been on the court if Mr. Obama had been successful
with the original nomination of Judge Garland.”

        *Democratic Lawmakers Criticize Decision. *John Roberts reported on Fox
News’ Special Report
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(6/26) that in the Cabinet room with GOP lawmakers, Trump had “praise” for
the Supreme Court’s decision, but Sen. Dick Durbin, the ranking member of
the Judiciary Committee, said that “history will not be kind to this
president’s policies or the Supreme Court justices who lent their names to
this troubling ruling.”

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(6/26) that the Supreme Court “abandoned its constitutional responsibility
to look at the animus, that improper motivation that was so obvious in
those statements” that Trump made during his campaign.

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(6/26) if the Supreme Court made the right call. Swalwell said, “No, they
didn’t. This is the United States of America. Our President is calling for
a ban on Muslims entering our country and our country was conceived around
the idea of religious freedom. And so I think this issue certainly is one
that needed precision to make sure we have security as refugees come to our
country and like many policies, the President is bringing a wrecking ball.”
When asked about the Administration’s argument that “most Muslim countries
are not part of the ban,” Swalwell replied[image: Image removed by sender.
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“I’ll go to the President’s own words as a candidate, that he wanted a
total and complete ban on Muslims.”

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(6/26), “I think it was a shameful decision. I think that the Supreme Court
had a chance to stand up to the President’s religious discrimination and
instead, affirmed it. I think...that years from now, the Congress and the
American people will look back on it with regret.” Castro likened the ban
to “the Chinese Exclusion Act, which kept Chinese from coming to this
country for 60 years until in the early 1940s.”

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(6/26) that as a candidate, Trump “said he wanted a complete and total
shutdown of Muslim entry into the country. He didn’t get the complete and
total shutdown, but he got something and he is celebrating that fact right
now and that is sad because our country stands for religious freedom and
liberty. We don’t hold people’s religious faith as a factor when we decide
whether they can come to our country or not. At least we shouldn’t. The
Supreme Court said they could for now, but I don’t believe that that ruling
will stand the test of time because none of the other bigoted rulings that
I’ve seen in the course of American history have stood the test of time.”

        *More Commentary. *The New York Times
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(6/26) writes in an editorial, “So what can be said in this moment? Perhaps
this – that Mr. Trump’s travel ban is of a piece with the man himself. We
may not be able to look into the president’s soul, but we can look at his
words and actions over the last half century,” when “white racial fear has
always been at the core of” his “worldview. What’s so dangerous about
Tuesday’s ruling is that the Supreme Court has now implicitly blessed his
use of this strategy as a political organizing tool and as a governing
philosophy.”

        The Washington Post
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(6/26) editorializes that “Trump has not been vindicated,” because “he has
been enabled to save face after a series of defeats in the lower courts and
in the court of aroused public opinion.” The Post adds that “though still
on the books and still inflicting arbitrary harm on would-be entrants to
the United States, as Justice Stephen G. Breyer noted in a thoughtful
dissent, the Trump policy was forced to change; checks and balances did
operate to that extent. ... These days, hope itself is a kind of victory.”

        USA Today
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(6/26) editorializes that “the 5-4 ruling doesn’t absolve President Donald
Trump from a responsibility to use this power wisely and humanely going
forward,” though “unfortunately, there’s scant evidence that he’ll do so.”
However, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton writes in a dissenting USA Today
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(6/26) op-ed, “As a nation of laws and not men, we must hold fast to this
truth: The power the president has does not depend on who the president is.
I congratulate the Supreme Court for reminding the political class of that
reality.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(6/26) writes in an editorial that the ruling simply upheld precedent about
presidential power – and that the court’s majority protected it from
passions sparked by hatred of Trump.

        Dana Milbank writes in the Washington Post
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(6/26), however, that “Roberts has validated religious discrimination. And
his fig leaf of facial neutrality won’t stand up in the court of history.”

        Leah Litman, an assistant professor of law at the University of
California, Irvine, writes in the New York Times
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(6/26), “The court’s decision to uphold the entry ban illustrates how
immigration has become a ‘Constitution-lite’ zone, and the Trump
administration’s recent policies prove why that’s not just a bad idea – it
can be a horrific one.”

        Peter H. Schuck, an emeritus professor of law at Yale, writes in
the New York Times
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(6/26) that “the risk and temptation of presidents to use their power to
overreach and ignore principles of justice is a constant threat to our
democracy.” Moreover, “although Mr. Trump poses this threat most brazenly
and in the extreme, it is by no means confined to him. Indeed, his
precedent will embolden his successors.”

        *Upholding Travel Ban, SCOTUS Also Overturns 1944 Decision Allowing
Japanese Internment Camps. *Politico
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(6/26, Gerstein) reports “the Supreme Court’s ruling Tuesday
upholding...Trump’s travel ban policy produced one unexpected result: the
formal repudiation of an infamous 74-year-old precedent upholding the
forcible transfer of Japanese-Americans to internment camps during World
War II.” Such an “extraordinary step by the court’s five
Republican-appointed justices appears to have been triggered by two liberal
justices’ upbraiding the majority for echoing a ruling widely seen as a
failure to confront a racist policy implemented under the guise of a
national security threat.” USA Today
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(6/26, Locker) reports that “dissenters of Tuesday’s [travel ban] ruling
compared the support for the travel ban to Korematsu, as Justice Sonia
Sotomayor said the decision ‘invoked an ill-defined national security
threat to justify an exclusionary policy of sweeping proportion.’” Chief
Justice Roberts “disagreed and overruled Korematsu as he also upheld the
travel ban.” The New York Times
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(6/26, Savage), among other news outlets, also reports the story.

        *Appeals Court Gives Administration Temporary Win On Sanctuary
Policy. *Politico
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(6/26, Hesson) reports that a federal appeals court on Tuesday “temporarily
narrowed the scope of a nationwide injunction” against the Administration’s
attempt to withhold funding from so-called sanctuary cities. The Seventh US
Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request from Attorney General Sessions
“to stay the nationwide aspect of the injunction, so that it will apply
only to the plaintiff, the city of Chicago, pending further consideration.”
Politico says the decision “amounts to a victory for President Donald
Trump.”
Azar Blames Parents Who Enter US Illegally For Family Separations.

The AP
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(6/26, Alonso-Zaldivar) reports that “the number of migrant children in
custody after being separated from their parents barely dropped since last
week, even as Trump administration said it’s doing everything possible to
expedite family reunification.” On Tuesday, HHS Secretary Azar “told
senators at a hearing...that his agency currently has 2,047 migrant
children – or six fewer than the total HHS count last week” – and
“suggested at one point that parents share the blame.” Said Azar, “It’s not
a desirable situation to have children separated from their parents.
Listen, to be upfront, if the parents didn’t bring them across illegally
this would never happen.” The CBS Evening News[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(6/26, story 2, 2:55, Glor) reported that Democrats “pressed him on
reunification.” Sen. Ron Wyden: “The American people have been getting lots
of deception, lots of rosy answers, not many facts. So how many parents do
not have access? How many parents have been told where their kids are?”
Azar: “That information is available for every parent.”

        NBC Nightly News
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(6/26, story 3, 2:30, Holt) showed Azar saying, “There’s no reason why any
parent would not know where their child is located. I sat on the ORR
portal, and with just a few basic key strokes within seconds could find any
child in our care for any parent.” ABC (Gutierrez) asked Fernando Garcia,
executive director of the Border Network For Human Rights, “How easy is it
for these migrants to hop on the computer?” Garcia said, “We’re talking
about people coming from rural communities in Mexico or in Guatemala and
Central America. Many of them they don’t have computers, they don’t know
how they work.”

        The Washington Post
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(6/26, Itkowitz) reports Azar also “told the Senate Finance Committee that
if lawmakers find a legislative fix to a court ruling that bars children
from being held in detention centers for longer than 20 days, then the
families could be reunited immediately. Otherwise, he said, those children
will need to wait for their parents to be either granted entry to the
United States or deported.” Said Azar, “I cannot reunite them, though,
while the parents are in custody because of the court order that doesn’t
allow the kids to be with their parents for more than 20 days. We need
Congress to fix that.” The Los Angeles Times
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(6/26, Wire) says the remarks provide “the clearest statement to date of
administration policy and confirmed what immigrant advocates have feared:
The only way parents can quickly be reunited with their children is to drop
their claims for asylum in the United States and agree to be deported.”

        The New York Times
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(6/26, Davis, Kaplan, Pear) reports White House spokesman Raj Shah
“conceded that the process of reuniting families would be difficult.” Shad
told CNN
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in an interview, “This is a complex situation. Our goal is to fully reunite
as many families as possible, as quickly as possible.”

        Rep. Joaquin Castro said on CNN’s Situation Room[image: Image
removed by sender. Video]
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(6/26), “Congress needs to play a big role in making sure that HHS and the
other federal agencies provide us a full list that accounts for every child
and parent separated so we can audit that list and account for every single
person on that list and make sure that they are reunified. They need to
submit this to Congress under penalty of perjury.”

        The Washington Post
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(6/26, Rozsa), meanwhile, profiles one family separated at the border in
May.

        *Judge Orders Administration To Reunite Families. *Politico
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(6/26, Gerstein) reports that a federal judge has ordered the federal
government on Tuesday night to reunite migrant parents with children taken
from them under the Administration’s family separation policy. US District
Court Judge Dana Sabraw, based in San Diego, issued “a preliminary
injunction on Tuesday night requiring that nearly all children younger than
5 be returned to their parents within 14 days and that older children be
returned within 30 days.”

        *Seventeen States, DC Sue To Stop Family Separations. *The Washington
Times
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(6/26, Dinan) reports 17 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit
Tuesday “asking a judge to step in and officially put an end to family
separations at the border.” The 17 states and the District of Columbia say
the Administration is “violating illegal immigrants’ due process rights and
breaking asylum laws by separating and failing to quickly reunite families.
And the states say President Trump’s executive order last week ending new
family separations doesn’t go far enough.” The suit filed Tuesday in
Washington state joins other cases already filed in California, Washington,
DC, and elsewhere over the separations. Politico
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(6/26, Gerstein) reports the suit filed Tuesday is led by Washington state
Attorney General Bob Ferguson, “who painted it as part of a broader
campaign to resist Trump administration initiatives.” Said Ferguson, “This
case, like all our cases against this Administration, says something
important about who we are as a people. We will stand up for the
Constitution, basic decency and fundamental American values.”

        *Immigrant Advocates: Administration’s Arguments For Separations
Not Back By Data. *UCLA law professor Ingrid Eagly, Steven Shafer of the
Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project in Los Angeles, and Jana Whalley of the
National Immigration Law Center in Los Angeles write in a Washington Post
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(6/26, Eagly, Shafer, Whalley) op-ed that the Administration last week
“backed down from its cruel policy of separating children from their
parents at the US border with Mexico,” but “our findings, published this
month in the California Law Review, counter the two central arguments cited
by the Trump administration in favor of detaining families. First, the
administration claims that families arriving at the border have ‘exploited’
the asylum law and are not legitimate asylum seekers. Our data show
otherwise.” The Administration, they say, also “makes a broader claim about
detained immigrants, arguing that those released from detention will not
show up for their court dates. Our study of asylum cases found the
opposite.” They conclude by urging the Administration to end its detention
of families.

        *Pence, Nielsen To Meet With Central American Leaders Later This
Week. *Reuters
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(6/26, Rampton) reports that Vice President Pence and DHS Secretary Nielsen
will travel to Central America this week “to discuss the immigration issue
on the US southern border with the presidents of Guatemala and Honduras and
the vice president of El Salvador.” The Washington Times
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(6/26, Dinan) reports Pence is scheduled to be in Guatemala to meet with
victims of a volcano eruption there earlier this month, “but the visit has
now turned into an immigration-centric meeting.” The Washington Post
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(6/26, Sonmez) reports that while traveling Tuesday in Brazil, Pence
“issued a stern warning about immigration...calling on Latin American
countries to respect US borders.” Said Pence, “To all the nations of the
region, let me say with great respect, that just as the United States
respects your borders and your sovereignty, we insist that you respect
ours. ... Don’t risk your lives or the lives of your children by trying to
come to the United States on the road run by drug smugglers and human
traffickers. If you can’t come legally, don’t come at all.”

        *Politico: Miller Serving As Trump’s “Immigration Czar.” *Politico
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(6/26, Johnson) reports that for the past two months, “a handful of
immigration hawks from across the government have assembled in Stephen
Miller’s West Wing office on a weekly basis to chart the course of the
Trump administration’s immigration policy.” Led by Miller, whom Politico
calls the “architect” of Trump’s “hard-line approach to immigration, the
meetings have replaced the usual interagency process involving key agency
officials and remained largely out of view to the rest of the
administration.” But without “an organized policy and communications
strategy integrating the input of key agencies, senior administration
officials have been caught unaware by major policy announcements, and
confusion has ensued about how to carry them out, according to
administration officials.”

        *Thiessen: Democrats Giving Trump The Upper Hand On
Immigration. *Washington
Post
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(6/26) columnist Marc Thiessen writes that “Democrats just can’t help
themselves. They were winning the battle over family separations at the
southern border. ... But then, Democrats blew it – and gave the president
the upper hand once again. First, they went overboard in their attacks on
Trump, with some playing the Hitler card.” Then, Thiessen writes, Sen.
Dianne Feinstein introduced “disastrous legislation – now co-sponsored by
every Democratic senator – that would not simply end family separations but
also actually expand the policy of ‘catch and release.’” He argues that “in
their rush to exploit the border crisis, Senate Democrats have managed to
take an issue that was toxic for Republicans and turn it into a calamity
for themselves.”
Trump Again Asks For Wall Funding, But House Bill Appears Headed For Defeat.

Reuters
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(6/26) reports that at the White House on Tuesday, President Trump said “he
will ask Congress for an increase in funding for his proposed wall along
the border with Mexico so it can be finished quickly,” and predicted that
Republicans will “make border security a centerpiece of their campaigns
ahead of congressional elections in November.” The Washington Examiner
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018062701biden&r=email-09a2&l=053-679&t=c>
(6/26, Morrongiello) says Trump “pressured Republican lawmakers in a
Tuesday meeting at the White House to complete his request for additional
border wall funding in the ‘next couple months.’” Said Trump, “We’re
discussing today the funding of the wall, which we very much need. We
started the wall and we’re spending a lot of energy and time. We’re going
to ask for an increase in wall spending so we can finish it quicker.”

        According to the New York Post
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(6/26, Fredericks), Trump said he intends to ask for more than $1.6 billion
to complete the wall. Said Trump, “We’re spending $1.6 billion now,”
referring to money included in a spending bill he signed in March. “There
is a plan for another $1.6 billion, but I’d like to ask this room if we can
increase it. I think in light of what’s happened with the drugs, with the
human smuggling, with all of the problems, we have to have the wall. We
have to have the wall,” he added. Trump tweeted
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on Tuesday night, “The Democrats are in Turmoil! Open Borders and unchecked
Crime a certain way to lose elections. Republicans are for Strong Borders,
NO Crime! A BIG NIGHT!”

        The AP
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(6/26, Mascaro, Fram), meanwhile, reports House Speaker Ryan has “scheduled
a long-awaited showdown vote on a broad Republican immigration bill for
Wednesday, but is showing little confidence that the package will survive.”
Ryan also “declined to answer questions Tuesday about a separate, narrow
measure Republicans are privately discussing,” which “would focus on...the
Trump administration’s separation of migrant children from their parents
when families are caught crossing the border without authorization.”
According to the AP, “many conservatives are preparing to vote against the
wider ranging bill because it would provide a chance for citizenship for
many immigrants who arrived illegally in the US as children.”

        The Washington Times
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(6/26, Dinan) reports that as Republicans “struggled Tuesday to corral
support for their compromise immigration bill” ahead Wednesday’s vote in
the House, “many members [are] already anticipating a defeat and planning a
quick pivot to the family separation issue.” According to Bloomberg News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018062701biden&r=email-09a2&l=058-b77&t=c>
(6/26, Edgerton, Litvan, Wasson), “The new version includes a requirement
for employers to electronically check the immigration status of workers and
overhauls a guest worker program for agriculture.” However, while Bloomberg
says “these additions appear to have won over even some immigration
hardliners,” some “other conservatives, including Freedom Caucus co-founder
Jim Jordan of Ohio, dug in Wednesday saying they will oppose the revamped
bill and predicting it will fail.” Reuters
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(6/26, Cowan) reports that “several House conservatives left a closed-door
meeting of Republicans early on Tuesday expressing discontent with the
broad bill.”

        The Washington Post
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(6/26, Debonis, Sullivan) reports that “top Democratic congressional
leaders” also said Tuesday that “concerns about holding migrant families in
detention indefinitely make it unlikely that they would back a Republican
effort to fix the separation crisis.” The Post says the “lack of support
dimmed prospects for any quick legislative action before lawmakers leave
Washington for their week-long Fourth of July recess.” The New York Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018062701biden&r=email-09a2&l=05b-060&t=c>
(6/26, Stolberg) reports that with the House vote Wednesday “all but
certain to fail,” an “unlikely” partnership between Sens. Ted Cruz and
Dianne Feinstein is leading “the Senate’s effort to address family
separation at the border.” Cruz and Feinstein are joined in their talks by
Senate Minority Whip Durbin and Sen. Thom Tillis, who described Monday
evening talks as “the opening conversation,” and said there are “clear
differences on a few fundamentals.”

        *GOP Leaders Propose Surge In Low-Skilled Guest Workers. *The
Washington
Times
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(6/26, Dinan) reports GOP leaders “added a massive infusion of low-skilled
foreign workers to their immigration bill Tuesday, hoping to win over
reluctant Republicans with business-friendly provisions.” The number of
low-skilled seasonal workers “will be allowed to triple under the new
plan,” which also includes “a new guest-worker program for agriculture
workers, hoping to appease farmers who fear they’ll lose their current,
heavily illegal, workforce under the other provisions of the GOP’s
compromise immigration bill.”

        *Trump Reiterates Call For Denying Due Process To Immigrants Who
Enter US Illegally. *Bloomberg News
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(6/26, Sink, Talev) reports the President also on Tuesday “elaborated on a
proposal he first made on Sunday, when he said in a tweet that immigrants
apprehended after illegally crossing the border shouldn’t be allowed to see
immigration judges before they’re deported.” Said Trump, “It’s so simple:
It’s called, ‘I’m sorry, you can’t come in.’ You don’t have to see a judge
where the judge is going to take three years.”

        Joe Davidson of the Washington Post
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(6/26) says the Sunday tweet about deporting people who “invade our Country
… with no Judges or Court Cases” was “an ominous message that displayed a
dangerous ignorance about the nation he leads. The despots Trump praises
don’t bother with due process niceties. When the issue is immigration,
Trump wants to follow their lead.”
Foreign Policy
Trump Warns Harley-Davidson Not To Take Production Overseas.

President Trump tweeted
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yesterday, “A Harley-Davidson should never be built in another
country-never! Their employees and customers are already very angry at
them. If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end – they
surrendered, they quit! The Aura will be gone and they will be taxed like
never before!” Trump also wrote
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“Early this year Harley-Davidson said they would move much of their plant
operations in Kansas City to Thailand. That was long before Tariffs were
announced. Hence, they were just using Tariffs/Trade War as an excuse.
Shows how unbalanced & unfair trade is, but we will fix it ...
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When I had Harley-Davidson officials over to the White House, I chided them
about tariffs in other countries, like India, being too high. Companies are
now coming back to America. Harley must know that they won’t be able to
sell back into U.S. without paying a big tax! ...
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We are finishing our study of Tariffs on cars from the E.U. in that they
have long taken advantage of the U.S. in the form of Trade Barriers and
Tariffs. In the end it will all even out – and it won’t take very long!”

        The Washington Times
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(6/26, Boyer) notes Trump later told reporters “he is ‘doing the right
thing’ by imposing tariffs on certain foreign imports, despite
Harley-Davidson’s announcement.” Trump said of Haley’s plans, “I don’t like
that, because I’ve been very good to Harley-Davidson. ... I think the
people that ride Harleys are not happy with Harley-Davidson. And I wouldn’t
be either.”

        Reports on Trump’s tweets and comments were largely unfavorable,
casting them as “threats” to Harley-Davidson. The AP
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(6/26, Superville) also disputes a central Trump claim, reporting that
while “Trump tweeted that Harley-Davidson had already announced it was
closing a Kansas City plant and moving those jobs to Thailand...it was
union officials representing workers at that plant who claimed the jobs
were being shifted to Thailand.” Harley-Davidson “has denied a link between
Kansas City and Thailand.” Another AP
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(6/26, Karnowski) dispatch also asserts that “the president tweeted
incorrectly that Harley was shifting its operations in Missouri to
Thailand,” when in fact “Harley has said previously that a long-term goal
is to expand its international business and that it faces excess capacity
in the US, where sales of the iconic American brand have declined as its
core market has aged.”

        In a piece for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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(6/26), Christian Schneider writes that “Trump continues to act as if he
were a strongman in a socialist regime, with powers to unilaterally harm
businesses that don’t pledge fealty to his economic plans.” Reuters
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(6/26, Chiacu) says, meanwhile, that Trump “threatened” Harley-Davidson
“with higher taxes,” though it “was unclear what taxes Trump was referring
to, and why the company might have to pay them, since it will maintain
production in the United States for US customers.” The New York Times
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(6/26, Rappeport) also says Trump was “threatening” Harley-Davidson “with
steep punitive taxes,” and the Washington Post
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(6/26, Paletta) that he “threatened the iconic motorcycle company...with
severe taxes and predicted a public revolt that he said would eventually
put the 115-year-old firm out of business.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(6/26, Ballhaus) offers a similar analysis under the headline “Trump Steps
Up Threats Against Harley-Davidson,” while to Yahoo! News
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(6/26, Stableford), Trump “continued to fume” yesterday, and to Politico
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(6/26, Murray), he “declared war on Harley-Davidson.” Politico adds that
“so far, many Harley lovers aren’t willing to pick sides in the brewing
battle.” Ted Richardson, “a member of the North Georgia Mountain Riders
group who owns a Harley,” said yesterday, “I am 100 percent behind the
president and behind Harley-Davidson.” Bloomberg News
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(6/26, Sink, Coppola, Dopp) notes that “the high-profile spat pits the
president against one of the best-known manufacturers in Wisconsin,” which
Trump “won...by a narrow margin of just over 22,000 votes in 2016.”

        The New York Post
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(6/26, Moore) reports Harley made its decision after the EU “-- in
retaliation for Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum – imposed penalties
on American motorcycles.” The EU tariffs “went into effect Friday,
increasing the cost of a US-made motorcycle by $2,200.” The Hill
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(6/26, Greenwood) also says “tariffs on the motorcycles were among several
trade measures threatened by the EU after the Trump administration
announced the steel and aluminum tariffs last month.”

        *Harley Decision On Thai Plant Came In Response To Trump Withdrawal
From TPP. *Bloomberg News
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(6/26, Coppola) reports, however, that Harley-Davidson “made the decision
to build the new Thailand factory to supply markets in Southeast Asia when
it was clear the US would abandon the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” and that
“in a separate move linked to shrinking sales in the US and having too much
production capacity for its domestic market, Harley announced in January a
plan to shutter its plant in Kansas City, eliminating 260 jobs.” Along
those lines, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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(6/26, Barrett) indicates “Harley plans to open a motorcycle assembly plant
in Thailand this year, as the tariff on motorcycles assembled in the US is
about 60 percent in Thailand, according to the company.” Harley already
“has assembly plants in India and Brazil. The company’s Street-model
motorcycles are made in India for Italy, Spain and Portugal.”

        CNBC
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(6/26) also reports “the company announced in May 2017 it would build a
plant in Thailand to better reach the southeast Asian market,” and that CEO
Matt Levatich said “in April he made the decision after...Trump withdrew
the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.”

        *Trump, Kushner To Attend Groundbreaking Ceremony For “Massive”
Foxconn Project. *The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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(6/26, Glauber, Romell, Nelson) reports Trump “is coming to Wisconsin to
officiate at Thursday’s ceremonial groundbreaking for the massive Foxconn
Technology Group project in Racine County – and to put his personal stamp
on his vision of an American manufacturing revival.” The “$10 billion
Foxconn project, aided by more than $4 billion in inducements from state
and local governments, is both a big deal and a great gamble.” It is “a
transaction that Trump championed and Republican Gov. Scott Walker forged
in negotiations with the Taiwan-based manufacturer of flat-screen panels.”

        The Washington Examiner
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(6/26, Bedard) reports, meanwhile, that “fresh from a whirlwind peace
mission through the Middle East, the administration’s top deal maker, Jared
Kushner, is heading to Wisconsin...with...Trump to celebrate the biggest
jobs deal of his young White House career.” The Examiner adds “Trump will
likely be the focus of the event,” but “it will also be a crowning moment
for Kushner who helped negotiate the deal.”

        *Ryan: Trump Tariffs Are “Basically Taxes.” *The Hill
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(6/26, Wong) reports Speaker Ryan “criticized...Trump’s tariffs as
‘basically taxes’ on Tuesday, a day after Harley-Davidson said it would
begin manufacturing some motorcycles overseas to avoid retaliatory tariffs
from the European Union.” Said Ryan, “I think tariffs are basically taxes.
... What ends up happening is you get escalating tariffs and end up raising
taxes.”

        *Walker Avoids Direct Criticism Of Trump. *The AP
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(6/26, Bauer) reports Gov. Walker’s “full-throttled love of Harley-Davidson
motorcycles has been intertwined with his rising political career, but now
he must navigate revved up criticism of the Milwaukee-based company
from...Trump.” Walker “has avoided directly criticizing Trump on the issue,
repeatedly saying instead that no tariffs would be good for Wisconsin
manufacturers and farmers.” Said Walker spokeswoman Amy Hasenberg,
“Governor Walker believes there should be no tariffs or trade barriers as
the President stated earlier this month at the G7 summit. ... When there’s
a level playing field, American workers and businesses win.”

        *EU “Increasingly Convinced” It’s Winning Trade Spat With
Trump. *Politico
Europe
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(6/26, Barigazzi) reports that “Brussels is increasingly convinced that its
retaliation measures...are bearing fruit.” EU trade chief Cecilia Malmström
said yesterday, “There are no [trade] talks planned.” She added
“Harley-Davidson’s relocation decision was exactly the type of reaction
Europe had been aiming for with its counter-tariffs,” saying, “Of course,
the consequences are that the American companies… will react and they will
put pressure on the American administration to say ‘Hey, hold on a minute.
This is not good for the American economy.’ And that’s what’s happening.”
Moreover, “French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said Europe was ready for
Round Two if Trump really wanted it.”

        *WPost Editorial Says Trump’s Response To Harley Shows “His
Authoritarian Instincts.” *The Washington Post
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(6/26) editorializes that it is “weeks such as these, in which a president
displays his authoritarian instincts, that prove the wisdom and importance
of the checks and balances the framers designed.” To the Post, “the
Harley-Davidson episode is a simple lesson of the many, easily foreseen
costs of ripping up trade agreements,” and Trump’s “authoritarian reaction
– to bluster and bully companies into doing what the leader demands in the
face of his irrational economic management – will not change the sharp
financial realities Mr. Trump is imposing on companies across the country.”
Adds the Post, “It used to be a core Republican principle that the
government should not dictate where companies invest. ... The framers of
the Constitution gave lawmakers the power to rein in the executive on such
matters; they should use it.”

        *Trump Defends Recent Tariff Moves. *The Washington Examiner
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(6/26, Nelson) reports Trump on Tuesday “stood firmly behind his recent
decisions to apply tariffs to foreign goods, despite an increasing number
of retaliatory import taxes on US goods, saying that non-public
negotiations are promising.” Trump told reporters at the White House,
“Other countries are negotiating and without tariffs, you could never do
that. And if they don’t want to negotiate, then we’ll do the tariffs. Just
remember, we’re the bank. We’re the bank that everybody wants to steal from
and plunder.” Trump “said there were promising trade negotiations,” but the
Examiner said “his precise messaging fluctuated.” Said Trump, “Every
country — any country that you can mention has been extremely nice, less to
the media probably. Extremely nice. They want to negotiate a deal. And
we’re open to that. We’re open to that. But it’s going to be very strong.”

        *Perdue: US Farmers Understand Trump’s Tough Stance Towards China. *
Reuters
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(6/26, Weinraub) reports Agriculture Secretary Perdue said Tuesday that
“most US farmers understand” Trump’s “trade row with China is necessary to
get the biggest buyer of US agriculture commodities to change its
behavior.” At a trade show in Chicago, Perdue said, “They understand that
China has not been a fair player. ... We will not allow agriculture
producers to bear the brunt of China’s retaliation as we defend our own
interests as a nation.” Perdue “said Trump had authorized him to protect
farmers from economic harm caused by trade fights and he hoped to have a
plan in place by the time farmers begin their fall harvest if no resolution
has been reached.”

        *Automakers To Warn Trump Of Higher Vehicle Costs If Tariff
Imposed. *Reuters
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(6/26, Shepardson) reports the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers said
Tuesday it would tell the Administration “that a US threat to impose a
tariff of up to 25 percent on imported passenger vehicles under national
security grounds would cost American consumers $45 billion annually, or
$5,800 per vehicle.” The group, which represents General Motors, Toyota,
Volkswagen and “other major automakers, will file written comments with the
US Commerce Department later this week, spokeswoman Gloria Bergquist said.”

        *Bloomberg News: More US Companies To Be Hit By Foreign
Tariffs. *Bloomberg
News
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(6/26, Roeder, Parmar) reports that as the “US-versus-the-world trade war
threat heating up,” Wall Street “should expect more companies to disclose
pain ahead when they report second-quarter results in coming weeks as the
list of goods in the crosshairs of major trading partners like the European
Union, China and Mexico grows.”

        *Republic Steel Credits Tariffs For Reopening Of Ohio Mill.
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Cleveland (6/26, 12:07 p.m. EDT) reported, “Republic Steel says because of
trump’s recent tariffs on China, there have been increased demand in steel.
the company says they are reopening the Rolling Mill and that will bring 80
new jobs over the next two months.”’

        *Canada Mulling Quotas, Tariffs On Imported Steel. *Bloomberg News
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(6/26, Wong, Wingrove) reports Canada “is preparing new measures to prevent
a potential flood of steel imports from global producers seeking to avoid
US tariffs.” According to Bloomberg, the “measures are said to be a
combination of quotas and tariffs aimed at certain countries, including
China.” Bloomberg says Canada’s “moves follow similar ‘safeguard’ measures
being considered by the European Union aimed at warding off steel that
might otherwise have been sent to the US.”

        *Exxon, Chevron CEOs Warn Trade War Could Reduce Demand For
Oil. *Bloomberg
News
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(6/26, Crowley) reports that Exxon and Chevron “sang the Trump
administration’s praises when the US president slashed corporate taxes at
the end of last year,” but “now, with trade wars looming, senior oil
executives aren’t quite so supportive.” At the World Gas Conference in
Washington, Chevron CEO Mike Wirth said, “The risk of trade skirmishes or
trade wars starts to weigh on people’s perceptions of economic growth in
the future. From a demand standpoint I think that’s a risk.” Exxon CEO
Darren Woods is quoted as saying, “With tax reform, the deregulation you’ve
seen in the US, those have enhanced the projects we’re looking to do for
our company.” However, “When tariffs come on and with threats of a trade
war, you risk making those projects less competitive and less attractive.”
Trump Signals CFIUS Could Oversee Chinese Investment In US Tech Firms.

Under the headline, “Trump Signals He Favors Mnuchin’s Path to Shield
Technology From China,” Bloomberg News
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(6/26, Mohsin, Sink) reports that at the White House on Tuesday, President
Trump “signaled he may take a less confrontational path toward curbing
Chinese investments in sensitive American technologies, potentially relying
on a US committee that scrutinizes foreign acquisitions for national
security risks.” Bloomberg says Trump’s remarks “appeared to align with”
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s “approach in an internal administration debate
over how to protect US intellectual property from China.” According to
Bloomberg, Mnuchin “favors using the Committee on Foreign Investment in the
US, which reviews foreign acquisitions of US companies for national
security risks.” Said Trump, “We have the greatest technology in the world,
people copy it and they steal it, but we have the great scientists, we have
the great brains, and we have to protect that. And that can be done through
CFIUS.”

        The New York Times
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(6/26, Swanson, Rappeport) says Trump “signaled...that the White House may
soften a plan to impose sweeping new investment restrictions on China,
saying he supported giving more power” to CFIUS. The Times notes that the
White House “is still expected to unveil by Saturday restrictions on
exporting sensitive American technologies abroad,” which it says “could
have a more significant effect on United States companies than restrictions
on Chinese investment.” The Wall Street Journal
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(6/26, Davis) reports Trump on Tuesday also called a recent article
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in the Journal that the Administration was planning two further
initiatives, in addition to CFIUS, to prevent Beijing from obtaining
advanced US technology, “a bad leak…probably just made up.”

        *House Passes Bill Tightening Investment Rules. *Reuters
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(6/26, Bartz) reports the House “overwhelmingly passed a bill on Tuesday to
tighten foreign investment rules, spurred by bipartisan concerns about
Chinese bids to acquire sophisticated US technology.” The bill, which
passed 400-2, is one of a series of measures being considered “to address
national security concerns as well as what they see as China’s unfair trade
and intellectual property practices.”

        *China Reportedly Censoring References To Industrial Policy
Criticized By Trump. *The New York Times
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(6/26, Zhong, Yuan) reports from Shanghai that “as Washington and Beijing
spar over trade, news outlets here have been ordered not to mention ‘Made
in China 2025,’ an industrial master plan that aims to turn the country
into a high-tech superpower.” According to the Times, “The Trump
administration has repeatedly singled out the campaign to show that Beijing
is using unfair means to acquire cutting-edge American technology.” The
Times goes on to report that “even before the latest orders, however, the
media coverage in China of the recent economic tensions with the United
States has been largely free of nationalistic or inflammatory rhetoric.”

        *Mattis Arrives In China. *The New York Times
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(6/26, Gibbons-Neff) reports that Defense Secretary Mattis arrived in
Beijing today, marking “the first visit to China by a Pentagon chief in
four years.” The Times says Mattis’ trip “comes as Beijing and Washington
navigate a burgeoning trade war and tensions related to the Chinese
military’s buildup in the South China Sea.” According to the Times, Mattis
is “expected to meet President Xi Jinping and other high-ranking Chinese
officials in the coming days before traveling on to South Korea and Japan.”
The Washington Free Beacon
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(6/26, Gertz) says while in China, Mattis “will hold talks with two senior
Chinese generals in charge of the People’s Liberation Army after a
welcoming ceremony Wednesday at the Chinese Defense Ministry.” The ministry
“announced Mattis’ visit on Tuesday and state media, which reflects
official government views, described US-China military ties as difficult.”
The Communist Party-affiliated Global Times “also published an editorial
Tuesday criticizing Mattis under the headline ‘Mattis should listen rather
than criticize.’”
US Wants Allies To Cease Importing Iranian Oil By November 4.

Bloomberg News
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(6/26, Wadhams, Blas) reports a State Department official said the US is
“pressing allies to end all imports of Iranian oil by a Nov. 4 deadline and
doesn’t want to offer any extensions or waivers as it follows through on
President Donald Trump’s decision to quit the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.” In
the wake of the announcement, oil prices “surged more than 2.5 percent in
New York as traders digested the prospect of a much larger than expected
loss of Iranian supply this winter.” The State Department official said the
Administration “wouldn’t rule out waivers or extensions to the November
deadline” but it “isn’t discussing them either.” Instead, the Wall Street
Journal
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(6/26, Talley) reports, the Administration will ask other crude exporters
in the Middle East to make up the Iranian supply that is removed from the
market.

        Reuters
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(6/26, Wroughton) reports a State Department official “said a US delegation
was headed to the Middle East next week to urge Gulf producers to ensure
global oil supplies as Iran is cut out of the market starting on Nov. 4
when US sanctions are reimposed.” Reuters notes US officials have not yet
held “talks with China and India, among the largest importers of Iran’s
oil, as well as Turkey and Iraq.” The Washington Free Beacon
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(6/26, Kredo) reports an interagency team of senior State and Treasury
Department officials will also “travel to Europe this week to continue
applying pressure to international governments to cut off all of their
Iranian oil imports to zero,” according to a senior State Department
official.

        The New York Times
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(6/26, Harris, Reed) posits that the Administration “may be signaling an
unusually tough position to gain leverage ahead of the first official
meeting in Vienna of the remaining signatories to the Iran nuclear deal
since President Trump announced in May that he was leaving the accord.”
While US diplomats “will not participate in the Vienna talks, set for next
week, since the United States is no longer a party to the deal,” senior
Administration “officials will talk with European diplomats on the
sidelines of the meeting about efforts to further restrain Iran.” The Times
notes the Vienna meeting “will come just two days after President Hassan
Rouhani of Iran is expected to visit the Austrian capital to discuss the
nuclear deal.”

        Reuters
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(6/26, Mersie) reports benchmark oil prices “jumped over 2 percent on
Tuesday and US crude topped $70 for the first time in two months, as
Washington pushed allies to halt imports of Iranian crude.” The State
Department official said, “We’re going to isolate streams of Iranian
funding and looking to highlight the totality of Iran’s malign behavior
across the region.”

        The AP
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(6/26, Lederman) says the move escalates the Administration’s “bid to
pressure Iran after pulling out of the nuclear deal.” According to the
Washington
Post
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(6/26, Morello), “Trump’s decision to abandon the landmark agreement and
reimpose sanctions is a strain on relations with US allies, most of which
consider the move ill-advised. Britain, France and Germany, which
negotiated the nuclear deal with the United States, say they intend to
uphold their commitments and still do business with Iran.” The US push also
comes “amid rising unrest in Iran as the government appears to be reverting
to a ‘resistance economy’ that was the norm before sanctions were suspended
under the deal.” In a Sunday interview, Secretary of State Pompeo
reiterated the Administration’s goal to pressure Iran into acting like “a
normal country.”

        Reuters
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(6/26, Mersie) reports benchmark oil prices “jumped over 2 percent on
Tuesday and US crude topped $70 for the first time in two months, as
Washington pushed allies to halt imports of Iranian crude.” The State
Department official said, “We’re going to isolate streams of Iranian
funding and looking to highlight the totality of Iran’s malign behavior
across the region.” The AP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018062701biden&r=email-09a2&l=091-56a&t=c>
(6/26, Lederman) reports the Trump Administration is escalating “its bid to
pressure Iran after pulling out of the nuclear deal.”

        *Abadi: Iraq Will Work With OPEC To Maintain Oil-Price Stability. *
Reuters
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(6/26, Rasheed) reports that Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said
today that Iraq “would cooperate with OPEC and non-OPEC states to maintain
oil price stability and prevent further price hikes.” According to Reuters,
“OPEC states, Russia and some other producers agreed last week to a modest
increase in oil output from July, although Iraq had been reluctant to
support the move during the talks.” Abadi is quoted as saying, “Any price
increase above current levels could lead to a collapse in oil prices.”

        *Third Day Of Protests In Tehran As Rouhani Warns Country Faces
“Economic War” With US. *The AP
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(6/26, Gambrell) reports “angry protesters in Iran’s capital held a third
day of demonstrations on Tuesday over the country’s anemic economy as
President Hassan Rouhani told the nation that it faces an ‘economic war’
with the United States following America’s pullout from the nuclear deal.”
Videos posted online “showed demonstrators again confronting police on
Tehran’s streets and alleyways,” but the “protests looked far smaller than
those on Monday, when security forces fired tear gas on crowds in front of
parliament.” Witnesswa said riot police established a “noticeable
presence,” but “official reports and comments also were slim in Iran’s
state-controlled media, though Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said the
‘main provocateurs’ of Monday’s protests were arrested.”

        Reuters
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(6/26, Sharafedin) reports in his speech broadcast live on state TV,
Rouhani “lambasted” President Trump’s “withdrawal from a deal with Iran on
its nuclear programme, and said Iranians will not give in to US pressure
but would defend their independence and Islamic values.” Rouhani said
Trump’s action on the JCPOA “was ‘appalling and illegal’ and had hurt
America’s global reputation.” Reuters
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(6/26, Editorial) also reports Rouhani vowed “on Tuesday the government
would be able to handle the economic pressure of new US sanctions.” In his
televised speech, Rouhani asserted: “Even in the worst case, I promise that
the basic needs of Iranians will be provided. We have enough sugar, wheat,
and cooking oil. We have enough foreign currency to inject into the
market.”
Helsinki Weighed As Possible Location For Trump-Putin Summit.

Reuters
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(6/26) reports Finland’s capital, Helsinki, is the likeliest choice of
venue for a possible summit between President Trump and Russian President
Vladimir Putin, a senior US official said Tuesday on condition of
anonymity. The official added that the final decision depends on National
Security Adviser Bolton’s talks with Russian officials in Moscow this week.
Finnish President Sauli Niinistö “tweeted a brief statement in response to
questions about the summit: ‘Finland is always ready to offer its good
services if asked.’” Reuters notes Austria’s capital, Vienna, “had been
also discussed as a potential site for the meeting, but officials said that
idea has been abandoned.”

        *Trump On NATO: US Should Pay Same As Germany. *Bret Baier reported
on Fox News’ Special Report
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(6/26) that President Trump had a “warning for America’s allies” on Monday
night, “once again hinting at a radical change in the way the US supports
NATO.” Fox showed Trump saying that Germany pays one percent “of a much
smaller GDP” to NATO, while the US is “paying close to four percent of a
much larger GDP, so I think we should pay the same as Germany. ... It’s all
wonderful and we like to help out, but it helps them. They are in Europe.”
According to Fox’s Kevin Corke, a senior Administration official says the
President’s rhetoric “isn’t likely to be backed up with immediate policy
changes, but the risk for the alliance is all too real, particularly for
European capitals who watch warily as Russia invaded Ukraine and annexed
Crimea.”

        *European Leaders Fear Impact Of Trump-Putin Summit On NATO
Gathering. *Brian Todd reported on CNN’s
Situation Room
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(6/26) that in light of Trump’s “style of winging it at” summits, “experts
are worried Putin might persuade Trump” to make indirect concessions. Todd
added, “Given what happened at the G7 summit, where...Trump broke away from
his allies to...meet with Kim Jong-Un, European officials are reportedly
concerned that...Trump might do the same thing at the NATO summit” this
July. That concern comes as NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg issued
an “ominous” comment. According to Todd, Stoltenberg said “it is not
written in stone that the Transantlantic bond will survive forever.”

        In an analysis, the Washington Post
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(6/26, Deyoung, Hudson) says “some European governments are actively
pressing the White House to hold the Putin meeting after the NATO summit.”
The fear that a “warm and effusive Trump meeting with Putin could expose
cracks in the alliance, which is divided over whether the West should
further isolate Russia or open more dialogue and business dealings with
it.” Last year’s NATO gathering, “when Trump scolded them as defense
cheapskates and refused to say the United States was committed to their
mutual defense pact, is still fresh in many minds” as well.

        Calling Trump the “one wild card” for this year’s summit, a New
York Times
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(6/26, Erlanger) analysis says “European and some American officials say
they dread the same pattern – a noisy, divisive NATO summit, damaging
deterrence, followed by a chummy meeting with a dictator, in this case Mr.
Putin, whose long-term goals are to destabilize the European Union,
undermine NATO and restore Russian influence over Eastern Europe, the
Baltic States and the Balkans.” Senior Administration officials even “said
they had no clarity on Mr. Trump’s intentions for this meeting,” and “have
told senior European officials that a lot will depend on Mr. Trump’s mood
as he arrives and what is being highlighted on his favorite American news
media outlets such as Fox News.”

        *UK’s Johnson Praises Trump Push For Increased NATO Spending.
*The Washington
Post
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(6/26, O'Grady) reports that British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who
was critical of President Trump during the 2016 campaign, was “grilled”
Tuesday by Labor politicians about recent positive remarks he has made
about the President. According to the Post, Johnson “dug in, saying he
admired Trump’s negotiations with North Korea, his urging of European
countries to increase their defense spending and his decision to bomb Syria
after a suspected chemical weapons attack by Bashar al-Assad’s regime.”

        *Russian Pop Star Tied To Trump-Russia Meeting Takes Jab At Trump
In New Music Video. *Sara Murray reported on CNN’s Situation Room[image:
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(6/26) that the Russian pop star who “helped facilitate” the “infamous”
Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Russians “offering up dirt
on Hillary Clinton” is out with a new music video “trolling” President
Trump. The video “features a roundup of encounters with Trump family
lookalikes.” Murray, noting that Trump “partied” with Emin Agalarov and his
billionaire father “when they helped” Trump bring the Miss Universe pageant
to Moscow in 2013, added that “the music video nods to the claims about
Trump’s activity on the trip, documented in the dossier that dogged the
President.”

        *Russia Accused Of Diverting Chemical Weapons Hearing. *The New
York Times
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(6/26, Pérez-Peña) reports Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons representatives met Tuesday to discuss a British proposal on
“whether to start determining who was to blame for chemical weapons
attacks, rather than just saying whether they occurred.” The Times says the
measure “is clearly aimed at Russia and its ally, Syria, two countries
recently accused of using chemical weapons, which they deny.” Before OPCW
representatives could address the merits of the proposal, however, they
“spent hours batting down questions and objections from the Russian
delegation – and, to a lesser extent, from representatives of Syria and its
other main ally, Iran – about how a vote would be conducted.” It took
“almost three hours” for representatives of OPCW countries “just to vote to
adopt a meeting agenda.” US Ambassador to the OPCW Kenneth Ward concluded
that the Russians “have made it quite clear they intend to dispute
everything.”

        *WPost: Ukrainians Distance Themselves From Stalemated
Conflict. *A Washington
Post
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(6/26, Stern) analysis says the conflict between “government forces and
Kremlin-backed separatists – and, by all indications, actual Kremlin troops
– in Eastern Ukraine” has “entered its fifth year, with no end in sight.”
Yet, “Europe’s only active conflict has dropped from the headlines, inside
Ukraine and abroad,” and “for some Ukrainians it might as well be in
another universe.” Nonetheless, activists are “trying to refocus people’s
attention,” and the US, European Union, and Kiev continue “conducting
parallel peace negotiations with Moscow,” though none of the talks have
“produced any breakthrough.” To the Post, this “stalemate – one commentator
describes it as ‘a war of exhaustion’ – poses a dilemma for Ukrainian
officials: how to maintain hope and a feeling of urgency amid a conflict in
which no solution appears immediately feasible.”
Tens Of Thousands Of Syrian Refugees Flee Toward Jordan, Israel.

The Washington Post
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(6/26, Loveluck, Ajroudi) reports that the Syrian army “advanced through
southern Syria” on Tuesday “as tens of thousands of civilians fled Syrian
and Russian airstrikes.” The Post says the Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights said the Syrian army has “taken control of the town of Busra
al-Harir and the nearby Lajat area, prompting an exodus of families and
cutting the rebels’ stronghold in half.” According to the Post, “With
violence ramping up, diplomats and experts warn that the pocket could
become a geopolitical tinderbox capable of destabilizing neighboring Jordan
and triggering a wider conflict between Israel and Iran.” The UN says “at
least 45,000 people have fled government advances in recent days.”

        The AP
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(6/26, Mroue, Su) reports that Jordan “said its borders will remain closed
for any new refugees, calling on the UN to provide security in southern
Syria.” The “escalation in Daraa, near Jordan and the Israeli-occupied
Golan Heights, came as Syria’s state media reported that two Israeli
missiles struck an area near the Damascus International Airport early
Tuesday.” One refugee tells the AP that “the safest place is the border
with Israel because the regime and Russian airplanes cannot strike the
area.”

        *WTimes: Idlib Enclave Evolves From Sanctuary To Syria’s “Dumping
Ground.” *“Since January 2016, Syrians driven from their homes by the
country’s brutal civil war have arrived en masse in the northwestern city”
of Idlib “and its surrounding province bordering Turkey,” but a Washington
Times
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(6/26, Wirtschafter, Nabeel) analysis says “reaching the sanctuary does not
signal an end to their troubles.” At least 163 people were killed by
“roadside bombs, targeted assassinations and firefights” in the last week
alone, while “jihadi groups that control much of the region are seeking to
impose their version of Islamic law on residents and refugees flocking to
the Idlib enclave.” The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Syria,
Panos Mourntzis, warned “that Idlib was becoming a ‘dumping ground’ for
civilians and militants relocated from other parts of Syria, putting some
2.5 million civilians in the region at risk.”
Pence, Temer Discuss Venezuela.

Reuters
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(6/26, Brito) reports Vice President Pence met Tuesday with Brazilian
President Michel Temer in Brasilia. In joint press statements, the two
“said they spoke extensively about the situation in Venezuela, where
ongoing political and economic crises have prompted millions of Venezuelans
to flee their homeland in recent years.”
Trump Awards Posthumous Medal of Honor To WWII Hero.

President Trump took to Twitter
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yesterday to write, “Today, we tell the story of an incredible HERO who
defended our nation in World War Two – First Lieutenant Garlin Murl Conner.
Although he died 20 years ago, today he takes his rightful place in the
Eternal Chronicle of American Valor.” The AP
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(6/26, Superville) recounts “Trump bestowed the nation’s highest military
honor upon 1st Lt. Garlin M. Conner, who the president said now takes his
‘rightful place in the eternal chronicle of American valor.’” Conner “was
honored for volunteering, despite being wounded, in January 1945 to go to
the front line near the town of Houssen, France, during the Battle of the
Bulge to observe German enemy forces and direct artillery fire against
them.” Trump said yesterday that “hours later, as swarms of German forces
rushed forward, Conner ordered friendly fire onto his own position,
‘courageously choosing to face death in order to save his battalion and
achieve victory for freedom.’”

        ABC World News Tonight
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(6/26, story 10, 0:15, Muir) and NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by
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(6/26, story 8, 0:25, Holt) ran brief reports on yesterday’s ceremony. The CBS
Evening News
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(6/26, story 11, 2:40, Martin) noted “Conner died in 1998. Six years later,
researchers found these affidavits by Conner’s fellow soldiers, describing
how he had beaten back waves of attacking Germans. ‘He took off like a bat
out of hell ,heading straight toward the source of enemy fire. All this
time a terrific hailing of small arms and machine-gun fire was concentrated
on his position. Out there all alone, calling in artillery fire on the
Germans.’ Those affidavits finally made it to the White House.”
Domestic Policy
Progressive Ocasio-Cortez Beats NY14 Rep. Crowley In “Shocking” Primary
Upset.

The New York Times
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(6/26, Goldmacher, Martin) reports that NY14 Rep. Joe Crowley (D), “once
seen as a possible successor to Nancy Pelosi as Democratic leader of the
House, suffered a shocking primary defeat on Tuesday, the most significant
loss for a Democratic incumbent in years, and one that will reverberate
across the party and the country.” He lost to “a 28-year-old political
newcomer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a former organizer for Bernie Sanders’s
presidential campaign, who had declared it was time for generational,
racial and ideological change.” Ocasio-Cortez took 58% of the vote to
Crowley’s 42%. The AP
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(6/26) reports that Crowley “is chair of the House Democratic Caucus, the
fourth-highest ranking position in Democratic leadership in that chamber of
Congress. “

        The Washington Post
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(6/25, Weigel) reports that Crowley is “just the third sitting member of
Congress, and the first Democratic incumbent, to lose in a primary this
year.” The Washington Times
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(6/26, Dinan) says that Crowley’s “loss stunned political observers and
thrilled liberal activists,” and the Huffington Post
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(6/26, Ruiz-Grossman, Marans) reported, “The victory for Ocasio-Cortez, a
28-year-old Latina candidate with modest resources and views that easily
make her one of the most left-wing members of Congress, would be
significant under any circumstances. That she” defeated “Crowley, the House
Democratic Caucus chairman and a leading candidate for Speaker, is nothing
short of remarkable.” CQ Roll Call (DC)
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(6/26, Bowman) reported that Crowley’s “loss is sure to send shockwaves
through the House Democratic Caucus.”

        *Sanders-Backed Jealous Wins Crowded Maryland Democratic
Gubernatorial Primary. *Ex-NAACP chief Ben Jealous (D) on Tuesday won
Maryland’s crowded Democratic gubernatorial primary, earning the right to
take on Gov. Larry Hogan (R) in November’s election. The AP
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(6/26, Witte) reports that in Hogan, Jealous – bidding to become “the
state’s first black governor” – will face “a popular Republican incumbent.”
The Washington Post
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(6/27, Wiggins, Hernández, McCartney) reports that Jealous, “embraced by
Sen. Bernie Sanders, decisively defeated Prince George’s County Executive
Rushern Baker III” in the primary, scoring “a major victory for the party’s
progressive wing.” The Baltimore Sun
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(6/26, Cox, Broadwater) reports that Jealous’ defeat of Baker, “who was
backed by the state’s political establishment, demonstrated the growing
influence of the progressive wing of the Maryland Democratic Party.”

        *Progressive Balter Beats Establishment-Backed Perez Williams In
NY24 Democratic Primary. *The Washington Examiner
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(6/26, Barrón-López) reported that “progressive” Syracuse University
professor Dana Balter (D) on Tuesday defeated Navy veteran Juanita Perez
Williams (D) in the NY24 Democratic primary, “handing an upset to the party
establishment.” Balter was backed by the “liberal base,” while Perez
Williams had the support of “the Democratic establishment.” Balter will now
face off against NY24 Rep. John Katko (R) in the general election. The
NY24, “which went for Hillary Clinton by 3 points in 2016, is one of the
Democrats’ top targets as they try to retake the House majority.” The
Huffington
Post
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(6/26, Marans) reported that the win by Balter dealt “a setback to the
national Democratic Party, which had backed” Perez Williams.

        *NY11 Rep. Donovan Defeats Grimm By 28 Points In GOP Primary. *The New
York Times
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(6/26, Goldmacher) reports – under the headline “Donovan, Aided By Trump,
Holds Off Grimm In GOP Primary” – that NY11 Rep. Dan Donovan (R)
“successfully fended off a fierce challenge from his predecessor,” ex-Rep.
Michael Grimm, (R), “avoiding the ignominious fate of losing re-election to
a convicted tax cheat.” Grimm resigned in 2014 “and pleaded guilty to
felony tax evasion, serving seven months in prison.” Donovan “had the full
weight of the Republican Party behind him,” including the endorsement of
President Trump. Donovan took 64% of the vote to Grimm’s 36%. The Huffington
Post
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(6/26, Nelson) reported, “As with so many races this election cycle...Trump
played an outsized role in the” contest. Trump “backed Donovan’s campaign,
keeping with his current habit of endorsing incumbents, and his allied
super PAC, America First Action, spent resources on behalf of
Donovan.” The Daily
Beast
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(6/26, Resnick) reported that the outcome assuaged “some party officials
who viewed Grimm as politically toxic in a general election matchup.”

        *Boosted By Trump, South Carolina Gov. McMaster Wins Primary Runoff
*Boosted by President Trump, Gov. Henry McMaster (R) on Tuesday defeated
businessman John Warren (R) in the GOP gubernatorial primary runoff. In a
Tuesday night tweet
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Trump said, “Congratulations to Governor Henry McMaster on your BIG
election win! South Carolina loves you. We are all proud of you and Peggy!”
The AP
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(6/26) reports that McMaster “survived an unusually tough challenge from a
political newcomer on Tuesday, saving Trump from embarrassment by winning a
primary contest that tested anew the Republican president’s clout within
his own party.” The Columbia (SC) State
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(6/26, Schecter) reports that Trump “stumped for McMaster in Cayceon Monday
– repaying McMaster for his endorsement before the 2016 S.C. GOP
presidential primary. Trump could reappear in the fall.” In the meantime,
“McMaster will be telling anyone who will listen that he should keep his
job because he has the ear of the commander-in-chief, who is popular among
SC GOP voters.” McClatchy
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(6/26, Dumain) reports that McMaster defeated Warren by about six points,
“in large part thanks to Trump’s endorsement, which brought the president
to the state on the eve of the election.”

        *Delgado Wins Crowded Democratic Primary To Face NY19 Rep. Faso. *The
Hill
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(6/26, Hagen) reported that attorney Antonio Delgado (D) on Tuesday won the
crowded NY19 Democratic primary, “setting up a high-profile” general
election battle against NY19 Rep. John Faso (R). The Hill added that
President Trump carried the NY19 “by almost 7 points in 2016. But Democrats
believe they still have a shot at reclaiming the seat since it was
previously carried twice by former President Obama.”

        *Cobb Handily Wins Democratic Primary To Take On NY21 Rep. Stefani.
*The Glens Falls (NY) Post-Star
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(6/26, Goot, Moore) reports that consultant Tedra Cobb (D) on Tuesday won
the crowded NY21 Democratic primary with “56 percent of the vote,” which
“was more than the other four candidates combined.” Cobb will now take on
NY21 Rep. Elise Stefanik (R) in the general election.

        *Trone Wins MD6 Democratic Primary After Spending $10M Of His Own
Money On Race. *The Washington Post
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(6/26, Schwartzman, Portnoy) reports that “tycoon” David Trone (D) on
Tuesday “won the Democratic primary” in the race to succeed retiring MD6
Rep. John Delaney (D), “overcoming rivals’ criticism that he sought to buy
the race by pumping more than $10 million of his own money into the
campaign.” In the general election, Trone, “owner of Total Wine & More, a
national liquor store chain, will face” off against defense contractor Amie
Hoeber (R), who “easily won the GOP primary.” Trone’s primary win “came two
years after he lost his first race for Congress, a campaign in which he
spent $13 million of his own money but lost to Rep. Jamie Raskin (D) in
Maryland’s 8th District.” CQ Roll Call (DC)
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(6/26, Pathé) reported that the contest “is rated Solid Democratic by
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales.”

        *Timmons Defeats Bright In GOP Primary Runoff In Race To Succeed
SC4 Rep. Gowdy. *The Charleston (SC) Post and Courier
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(6/26, Lovegrove) reports that state Sen. William Timmons (R) on Tuesday
defeated ex-state Sen. Lee Bright (R) in the SC4 GOP primary runoff. This
fall, Timmons will face businessman Brandon Brown (D) in the race to
succeed retiring SC4 Rep. Trey Gowdy (R). The Post and Courier says that
Timmons “will be the overwhelming favorite heading into that contest in a
district that has been reliably Republican for decades.”

        *Democrat Polis, Republican Stapleton To Face Off In Colorado
Governor’s Race. *Rep. Jared Polis (D) and state Treasurer Walker Stapleton
(R) on Tuesday won their respective primaries and will now face off this
fall in the race to succeed term-limited Gov. John Hickenlooper (D). The AP
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(6/26) reports that the primary wins by Polis and Stapleton set “up a
left-versus-Trump showdown as Republicans seek a seat they haven’t held in
more than a decade. The liberal Polis, a five-term congressman, and
Stapleton, who has closely aligned himself with President Donald Trump’s
immigration and tax policies, easily defeated three challengers each in”
their respective primary contests. The Denver Post
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(6/26, Frank) reports that Polis “would become the nation’s first openly
gay man elected governor if he succeeds, and his win Tuesday represents a
sharp leftward shift that will test whether Colorado is a true blue state.”

        *Crow Handily Wins Democratic Nomination To Challenge CO6 Rep.
Coffman. *The Denver Post
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(6/26, Aguilar) reports that former Army Ranger Jason Crow (D) on Tuesday
defeated ex-Obama Administration official Levi Tilleman (D) in the CO6
Democratic primary “by a margin of more than 2 to 1.” Crow will now face
off against CO6 Rep. Mike Coffman (R) in the general election. The Post
says, “The Cook Political Report ranks” the CO6 contest “as a tossup, while
Inside Elections says it ‘tilts Republican.’”

        *Oklahoma GOP Gubernatorial Race Goes To Runoff; Edmondson Wins
Democratic Nod. *The Tulsa (OK) World
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(6/26) reports that ex-Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett (R) and businessman
Kevin Stitt (R) on Tuesday advanced to an Aug. 28 runoff in the GOP
gubernatorial primary, after no candidate in the crowded contest topped the
50% mark. The eventual GOP nominee will face off this fall against ex-state
Attorney General Drew Edmondson (D), who on Tuesday defeated state Sen.
Connie Johnson (D) in the Democratic primary. The candidates are vying to
succeed term-limited Gov. Mary Fallin (R).

        *Baria Wins Mississippi Democratic Primary Runoff To Challenge Sen.
Wicker. *State Rep. David Baria (D) on Tuesday defeated venture capitalist
Howard Sherman (D) in the Democratic Senate primary runoff, earning the
right to face off against Sen. Roger Wicker (R) this fall. The AP
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(6/26, Amy) reports that in the wake of his victory, Baria “said he would
continue his advocacy of education, health care and transportation in
Congress, and voiced opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration
policies.”

        *Romney Cruises To Utah GOP Senate Primary Win. *As expected, Mitt
Romney (R) on Tuesday defeated state Rep. Mike Kennedy (R) in the GOP
Senate primary. The AP
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(6/26, Whitehurst) reports that President Trump on Tuesday night
“congratulated Romney on the landslide victory, tweeting
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that ‘a great and loving family will be coming to DC.’” Bloomberg News
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(6/26, Sullivan) reports that Romney, bidding to succeed retiring Sen.
Orrin Hatch (R), “starts the general election campaign as a heavy favorite”
to defeat Salt Lake County Councilwoman Jenny Wilson (D).
As Trump Casts Waters As “Face” Of Opposition, Democrats Fear Election
Fallout.

The Washington Post
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(6/26, Wagner) reports that President Trump yesterday “sought...to keep a
spotlight on Rep. Maxine Waters” yesterday. In a tweet
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Trump “said that Waters is now ‘the face of the Democrats’ and that she and
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi...make a ‘fine leadership team.’” The AP
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(6/26, Kellman) says that “in fewer than 50 words, he tweeted Tuesday that
three outspoken Democratic women in their 70s are ‘the face of the
Democrats,’” though “Trump, himself now 72, is the oldest elected president
in US history.” The AP adds “Trump focuses his tweet on women, the voter
demographic he’s long struggled with, especially after the ‘Access
Hollywood’ tape of him boasting about groping them.”

        On ABC’s Good Morning America
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(6/26), George Stephanopoulos said there is “a real debate about how to
protest the administration sparked, in part, by” Waters, who was shown
saying, “If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a
department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd
and you push back on them.” According to Stephanopoulos, Waters’ rhetoric
“is dividing Democrats.” Jon Karl added, “Absolutely. ... This is something
that some Democrats think is, frankly, just crazy.” Cecilia Vega said, “A
lot of Democrats say this could come back to hurt them in the midterms.”

        On CBS This Morning
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(6/26), John Dickerson paraphrased the message from Senate Minority Leader
Schumer and House Minority Leader Pelosi as, “We’re not going to get the
voters that we need to win back the House if this is the rhetoric that
defines our party.” In a segment on Trump’s appearance in South Carolina on
Monday night for NBC’s Today Show
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(6/26), Peter Alexander said, “This is a remarkable moment” as “Trump, who
has been fiercely criticized for his inflammatory comments since the day he
launched his campaign,” is “trying to shift the national conversation to
focus on civility.”

        Fox News’ Fox & Friends
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(6/26) opened with a montage of Trump’s speech in South Carolina on Monday
night, including his remarks about Waters. According to Steve Doocy, Waters
has since “doubled down.” Ainsley Earhardt said, “Some of her Democratic
colleagues...are denouncing her...including” Schumer, who was shown saying,
“No one should call for the harassment of political opponents. That’s not
right. That’s not American.” On MSNBC’s Morning Joe[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(6/26), Joe Scarborough mocked Trump supporters for objecting to Waters
urging the public to harass Administration officials, and then asserted
that Trump himself was “inciting violence” when he said Waters should “be
careful what you ask for.”

        Anderson Cooper said on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360[image: Image
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(6/26) that Sarah Sanders’ “point is obviously well taken. We should be
able to have disagreements with fellow citizens without resulting to
harassment and bullying. But it should also be noted that the President has
taken uncivil discourse to a whole new level and Sarah sanders has never
distanced herself from the things the President has said.” Jim Acosta said
on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360
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(6/26) that the White House wants to “put out this message that there is
intolerance on the left. Never mind the fact that the President, including
members of his Administration, have been pretty intolerant of other
people’s views.”

        Phil Rucker of the Washington Post said on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell
Reports
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(6/26), “Trump has been going after people for years. This is one of the
ways he got elected on the campaign trial. That’s his style. It certainly
is not civility or respectful, which is what Sarah Sanders was urging all
Americans to be from the podium and those are important values and
characteristics but the President is very different and he attacks people
left and right.”

        On CNN’s Out Front
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(6/26), Sen. Corey Booker criticized what he said is the “hypocrisy,” of
“these...folks that were trying to allow for a bakery owner to deny someone
the ability to come and buy cakes because of that they were gay. I watched
on TV, I wasn’t a senator yet, when during a State of the Union speech,
President Obama was heckled. Talk about disrespecting someone in one of the
more important moments of America where millions of non-Americans are
watching us and you assault the presidency, not to mention the President.
None of these folks were calling for a censure or a person o step down.”

        Frank Bruni writes in his New York Times
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(6/26) column that “for a solid week, the most discussed story in
America...was the Trump administration’s cruel separation of migrant
families and detention of some children in de facto cages,” causing an
“outrage” that “transcended political party...and represented an
all-too-rare instance when his reprehensible actions earned a properly
disgusted, widespread rebuke.” And yet by Monday “a miracle had occurred:
The Democratic Party – well, one Democratic congresswoman in particular –
had given journalists a different story to turn to, and this new narrative
allowed Trump and his enablers to play the parts of victims.”

        *In Tweet Today, Trump Says Waters, Pelosi “Will Make America Weak
Again.” *Trump tweeted
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this morning, “Congratulations to Maxine Waters, whose crazy rants have
made her, together with Nancy Pelosi, the unhinged FACE of the Democrat
Party. Together, they will Make America Weak Again! But have no fear,
America is now stronger than ever before, and I’m not going anywhere!”

        *Ryan Says Waters Should Apologize As 100 House Republicans Seek
Censure. *USA Today
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(6/26, Estepa, Kelly) reports Speaker Ryan “on Tuesday called on...Waters
to apologize for telling activists to confront members of the president’s
Cabinet in public.” Said Ryan, “There’s no place for this. She obviously
should apologize. ... That’s dangerous for our society, that’s dangerous
for our democracy.” The Washington Times
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(6/26, Muñoz) notes, meanwhile, that “South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman told
Laura Ingraham on her radio show that about 100 members of the House were
pushing...Ryan to censure Ms. Waters after her controversial speech went
viral.” Said Norman, “We are calling for Speaker Ryan to make a public
statement on the House floor to call attention to this type of activity.
It’s unfair, it’s unfounded. He is well aware of the problems, and as of an
hour ago, we made it loud and clear.” Breitbart
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(6/26, Key) also notes Norman’s comments.

        The Daily Caller
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(6/26, Picket) reports, meanwhile, that “two members of the Congressional
Black Caucus dodged questions Monday about...Waters calling for citizens to
harass and protest Trump officials in public,” while “a third, Missouri
Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, condemned her comments while also
denouncing...Trump’s past insults.”

        Steve Cortes, a member of President Trump’s 2020 Re-elect Advisory
Committee said on CNN’s Out Front
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(6/26) that Waters should “not only apologize, she should resign. She’s a
disgrace to her office. She called on people who support President Trump to
be hounded and chased out of the public square. That is a opposite of what
we’ve ever stood for in America.”

        *Judicial Watch Files Ethics Complaint Against Waters For “Inciting
Violence.” *The Washington Times
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(6/25, Harper) reports “Judicial Watch filed Monday an ethics complaint
against...Waters for ‘inciting violence and assaults on the Trump Cabinet,’
according to Tom Fitton, president of the watchdog organization.”

        *McConnell, Chao Confronted By Protesters In DC. *The Louisville
(KY) Courier-Journal
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(6/26, Haurari) reports Senate Majority Leader McConnell and his wife,
Transportation Secretary Chao, “were confronted
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by protesters as they left Georgetown University on Tuesday night in an
incident that was captured on video and shared on social media.” The
Courier-Journal recounts that “one protester, just inches from Chao,
repeatedly shouted, ‘How do you sleep at night?’ Another asked McConnell
why he was separating families, to which Chao said, ‘He’s not.’” Chao also
“pointed her finger at the protesters, saying several times, ‘You leave my
husband alone. Leave my husband alone.’” The Washington Post
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(6/26, Viebeck), The Hill
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(6/26, Rodriguez) and Politico
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(6/26, Murray), among other news outlets, also report the story.

        *GOP Rep. Schweikert Says Death Threats Have Spiked Since 2017. *The
Daily Caller
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(6/26, Hasson) reports “Republican Arizona Rep. David Schweikert says he
received more death threats in 2017 than every other year he’s been in
office combined.” Said Schweikert, “My fear is this is the playbook of a
lot of our brothers and sisters on the left — they’re going to get fringier
and fringier, louder and louder, angrier and angrier, and as you and I
know, we sometimes have some folks in our society who aren’t completely
healthy. ... And we had more death threats last year, in my office, even
one towards my little girl, than we’ve ever had in all the other years
combined and my fear is that this rage that is being generated for
political turnout is actually really becoming unhealthy for our political
society.”
Trump Staff Facing Increasing Level Of Threats, Harassment.

A number of media outlets, including local TV broadcasts and cable news
shows, continued to report on concerns regarding incidents of harassment of
Administration aides, though the story was not mentioned on the major
network newscasts. The Washington Post
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(6/26, Miroff) reports that DHS officials say agency employees “have been
targeted by escalating online threats and harassment in their neighborhoods
during the past week...with rancor over the...administration’s immigration
policies taking a greater personal toll on the agency’s staff.” The Post
adds, “Over the weekend, a charred, headless rodent carcass was left on the
doorstep of a senior DHS staffer in the Washington metro area, according to
an official at the agency.” According to the Post, “activists protested
last Friday outside” DHS Secretary Nielsen’s “home...and at the residences
of other senior DHS personnel.”

        Fox News
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(6/25, Darrah) reported that “over the past few weeks there have been more
and more stories of Trump administration members being publicly harangued
in public,” and surveyed “some of the cases making headlines.” Newsweek
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(6/26, Silva) said “Deputy DHS Secretary Claire Grady warned of an increase
in the number of security threats against DHS employees,” telling DHS
employees, “Unfortunately, there are those who misconstrue your work in a
negative way or seek to disrupt your work to advance outside agendas. As a
result, sometimes our employees face threats. ... In recent days, DHS has
determined there may be a heightened threat against DHS employees in
response to U.S. government actions surrounding immigration.”

        WTLV-TV
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Jacksonville, FL (6/26, 6:52 a.m. EDT) reported that DHS “is warning it
staffers to be on alert. This, after a senior official claims some left a
burned animal carcass on his front porch.” The Department “says employees
are seeing an increase in violent threats in the wake of President Trump’s
immigration policy.” WPMT-TV
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Harrisburg, PA (6/26, 6:38 a.m. EDT) also said the immigration debate is
reaching “a fever pitch.” DHS “is now warning its employees they may face a
‘heightened threat.’”

        Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said on Fox News’ The Ingraham
Angle
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(6/26), “When this becomes personal and people take it away from the public
venues of a town hall or a speech in public at a university campus and they
start taking it to people’s homes and they start making it so that a person
like Pam Bondi can’t go see a Mr. Rogers movie or so that my daughter can’t
even go get [an] appetizer because the moment she gets there, the manager
tosses her out and tells her to leave. That’s the kind of thing we saw at
lunch counters in the ‘60s and I thought we were never going to see that
again. It’s pretty sad.”

        Sean Hannity said on Fox News’ Hannity[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
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(6/26), “And who’s the angry mob now? As it turns out, the rhetoric, the
tactics utilized by left are so vile, so vicious, so hypocritical, so
aggressive – you know what, we are in an environment now that if we are not
careful, seriously people could get hurt or killed. Of course today, the
ringleader of all the anti-Trump hatred is none other than Congresswoman
Maxine Waters, the head of the Democratic Party.”

        Tucker Carlson said on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight[image:
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(6/26), “As progressives become more authoritarian and less tolerant, they
seem more convinced that they are fighting actual Nazis rather than their
fellow Americans, with whom, in the scheme of things, they have only real
mild political differences. The more they accused the administration of
extremism, the more extreme they become. And that’s not surprising, because
once you decide that the people who disagree with you are Nazis, everything
is allowed. Why wouldn’t you threaten them in restaurants or burn their
houses down, or who knows? This could very well end in tragedy.”

        Laura Ingraham said on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle[image: Image
removed by sender. Video]
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(6/26), “Harass them when they go into public places. Surround, crowd. What
does that lead to? Well, as expected, the leftist renegades have absorbed
this message from the political class. It’s now open season on
conservatives.”

        *Trump Fundraising Off Sanders Incident. *USA Today
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(6/26, Schouten) reports, “Trump on Tuesday used a Virginia restaurant’s
refusal to serve White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and
other recent protests against his administration as a fundraising tool.”
USA Today adds that “in an email with the subject line ‘Harassment,’ Trump
outlined a series of incidents he said demonstrated that the ‘left is
trying to bully and buy their way back into power.’” The Washington Times
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(6/26, Boyer) also reports the story.

        *Protesters Face Off Outside Red Hen. *USA Today
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(6/26, Simon) reports from Lexington, Virginia that “a quiet Tuesday
afternoon here transformed into a raucous demonstration when people
gathered outside the Red Hen to protest the restaurant’s treatment
of...Sanders.” While “some carried enormous Trump flags and donned red
‘Make America Great Again’ hats...others carried signs asking for tolerance
and civility. And as the action escalated, many just turned up to watch.”

        *Senate Intern Who Shouted Obscenity At Trump Suspended For A Week.
*The Washington Post
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(6/26, Wang) reports that Caitlin Marriott, the congressional intern “who
yelled an obscenity at...Trump at the Capitol last week, has been
suspended.” Marriott works in the office of Sen. Maggie Hassan, which “said
it also ‘facilitated contact with Capitol Police’ regarding the incident.” CQ
Roll Call
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(6/26, Connolly) also reports the story.

        *New Yorker Fact-Checker Forced Out After Claiming ICE Agent’s
Marines Tattoo Was Nazi Symbol. *The New York Post
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(6/26, Eustachewich) reports “the fact-checker for the New Yorker who
mistook a Marine veteran’s tattoo for a Nazi symbol has resigned, saying
the ‘small mistake’ has ruined her life.” The veteran in question is an ICE
agent. Talia Lavin “is out of a job following her June 18 tweet that caused
mass outrage.” Lavin told New York Magazine’s The Cut
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“I feel like I made a small mistake and it’s destroyed my life.”
House Panel Approves Resolution Directing Rosenstein To Turn Over Documents.

USA Today
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(6/26, Kelly) reports that in a party line vote Tuesday, the House
Judiciary Committee approved “a resolution directing Deputy Attorney
General Rod Rosenstein to hand over more documents about the investigation
of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible
collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.” It is, USA Today
says, “the latest move in an escalating battle that has pitted conservative
House Republicans against the Department of Justice and the FBI. The two
sides will confront each other on Thursday, when Rosenstein and FBI
Director Christopher Wray will testify at a committee hearing.”

        The Washington Times
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(6/26, Mordock) calls the move an escalation of the “showdown between
Congress and the Justice Department over Russia,” while the Washington Post
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(6/26, Demirjian) calls it “a key political step...toward formally
censuring” Rosenstein. The measure “was promoted by some of the House’s
most conservative Republican members as a precursor to more punitive steps
they have advocated taking against Rosenstein, such as holding him in
contempt of Congress, or even impeaching him, over complaints about the
Department’s response to several document requests related to its Russia
probe.” However, “despite the judiciary committee’s support for their
resolution,” they “do not seem to have the full support of GOP leadership
in their efforts.”

        Rep. Jim Jordan said on Fox News’ Fox & Friends[image: Image
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(6/26) that if DOJ does not comply soon, the House will vote to hold
Rosenstein in contempt and then vote on his impeachment.

        *Meadows: DOJ Letter On Russia Probe Is “Creative Writing.”
*The Washington
Times
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(6/26, Mordock) reports that Rep. Mark Meadows on Tuesday called a DOJ
letter “insisting it had complied with conservative lawmakers’ demands to
turn over documents related to the FBI’s use of confidential informants to
meet with Trump campaign figures is ‘an art form in creative writing.’”
Meadows tweeted
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“The DOJ continues to insist they’ve complied with document requests when
they blatantly have not. This letter is an art form in creative writing.”
Meadows was referring to a letter sent to House Intelligence Committee
chairman Devin Nunes by Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd, “asserting
the Justice Department has already turned over the documents sought by
conservative lawmakers.”

        *Strzok To Meet With House Lawmakers Today. *Politico
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(6/26, Cheney) cites “three Capitol Hill sources” who said that FBI agent
Peter Strzok, “who has drawn President Donald Trump’s ire for his
anti-Trump text messages, will appear voluntarily Wednesday before House
lawmakers.” Strzok “will meet with the House Judiciary and Oversight
Committees” in a closed door interview. However, “a Judiciary committee
aide” said that the meeting is “set to be followed ‘soon’ by a public
hearing.”

        Asked, on Fox News’ Fox & Friends[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
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(6/26), why FBI official Strzok’s testimony is being held in private
despite calls from President Trump and others for the hearing to be public,
Rep. Jim Jordan said that in a closed session, committee members “can ask
him all kinds of questions and we can have longer than five minutes and get
the answers that we need.” Jordan said that he wants to ask Strzok why he
traveled to London in the summer of 2016 just one day after the FBI’s
investigation of the Trump campaign was opened. Jordan said he wants to ask
Strzok if he met with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who
compiled the anti-Trump dossier for the Clinton campaign. Jordan also
discussed the House Intelligence Committee’s request for DOJ documents.
According to Jordan, Nunes “specifically wants to know, were informants put
in the Trump campaign?” And, “if so, how many and were they paid by the
FBI?”

        *Trump Highlights Napolitano Quote On Strzok. *In a tweet Tuesday
morning, President Trump highlighted a comment by Judge Andrew Napolitano
on Fox News’ Fox & Friends
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Trump wrote
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“‘The most profound question of our era: Was there a conspiracy in the
Obama Department of Justice and the FBI to prevent Donald Trump from
becoming President of the U.S., and was Strzok at the core of the
conspiracy?’ Judge Andrew Napolitano”.

        *DiGenova Predicts Strzok Will “Lie” To Lawmakers. *Former US
Attorney Joe DiGenova said on Fox News’ Hannity[image: Image removed by
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(6/26), “As I said from the very beginning of this, James Comey was a dirty
cop. Mr. Strzok is dirtier. The bottom line is very simple. He is going to
go in tomorrow and he is going to lie.”

        *NSA Leaker Winner Pleads Guilty, Expected To Get 63-Month
Sentence. *The New York Times
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(6/26, Savage, Blinder) reports that Reality Winner, “a former Air Force
linguist who was the first person prosecuted by the Trump administration on
charges of leaking classified information, pleaded guilty on Tuesday as
part of an agreement with prosecutors that calls for a sentence of 63
months in prison.” The Times notes that Winner “was arrested last June and
accused of sharing a classified report about Russian interference in the
2016 election with the news media.” According to the Times, Winner’s
“decision to plead guilty to one felony count allows the government both to
avoid a complex trial that had been scheduled for October and to notch a
victory in the Trump administration’s aggressive pursuit of leakers.”
The Washington
Post
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(6/26, Barrett) reports that “authorities alleged she gave a top-secret NSA
document about Russian hackers targeting US election systems to a media
outlet. People familiar with the case identified the outlet as the
Intercept.” The Post says prosecutors “have said Winner...was motivated by
anger over public denials that Russia sought to influence the outcome of
the 2016 election.”

        *Judge Gives Trump Organization Until Next Week To Review Seized
Cohen Documents. *The New York Times
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(6/26, Feuer) reports US District Judge Kimba Wood said Tuesday “that a
painstaking review of a trove of documents and data files seized from
[Michael] Cohen in April must be finished by next week.” Bloomberg News
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(6/26) says Wood denied the Trump Organization’s “request to give it until
July 11 to finish the review.” Bloomberg notes that the Trump Organization
“had sought the extension, saying it had received 22,000 documents on June
20, and additional audio files and documents two days later.” Reuters
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(6/26) reports that Cohen “is seeking to prevent prosecutors from reviewing
about 12,000 files out of more than four million seized by authorities as
part of a criminal investigation” because they are “privileged
attorney-client communications or legal work done in preparation for
litigation.” Reuters says “a court-appointed special master, former federal
judge Barbara Jones, will review Cohen’s claims of privilege,” and Wood
“must give final approval to Jones’ decisions.”
Notre Dame Students Sue School, Administration Over Birth Control Coverage.

Reuters
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(6/26, Cherelus) reports that University of Notre Dame students have sued
the school and the Administration “over a move this year to drop coverage
for some forms of birth control from the university’s health insurance
plan, citing religious objections.” A lawsuit filed in federal court in
South Bend, Indiana “contends that an October 2017 settlement between the
Trump administration and the school, founded by a Roman Catholic religious
order, violates terms of the Affordable Care Act requiring employers to
provide health insurance policies that offer access to contraception and
sterilization.”

        *WSJournal Op-Ed: Some ACA Plans Are More Limited Than Medicaid. *In
an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal
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(6/26), John C. Goodman, president of the Goodman Institute for Public
Policy Research, that while the elimination of the ACA’s individual mandate
is a positive development, there has been no change on the supply side of
the health insurance market and unless more reforms are made to the law’s
limits on insurers, many Americans will have to select from a limited group
of plans, some of which are more restrictive than Medicaid.
CBO: Trump Tax Cuts Will Make Debt Situation Worse.

The Los Angeles Times
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(6/26, Halper) reports that the CBO says President Trump’s tax cuts “are
helping push the nation toward an unprecedented level of debt, heightening
the risk of another financial crisis.” In its “annual look at the
government’s long-term financial outlook paints a grim picture,” the CBO
“project[ed] soaring deficits in the coming years, with debt ultimately
peaking at more than 152% of the nation’s gross domestic product.” The AP
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(6/26, Freking) says the CBO “projected that federal debt compared to the
size of the economy will reach 78 percent this fiscal year, the highest
level in nearly seven decades, and that it will grow sharply from there
over the next three decades.” According to the CBO, “the debt will grow as
government revenue flattens out in the next few years in relation to the
size of the economy,” while “spending on Social Security, Medicare and
interest payments will jump.”

        Reuters
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(6/26) notes that the CBO warns that “Republican plans to make President
Donald Trump’s tax cuts permanent...would worsen an already rising U.S.
debt burden.” Politico
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(6/26, Ferris) reports that while Republicans have said the tax law “would
spur enough economic growth to offset a loss in revenue over the next
decade,” the CBO predicts “that most of that economic revving will happen
in the next several years, with the largest single-year increase occurring
in 2022, with GDP growing by a full percentage point. After that, GDP
growth is expected to be modest, amounting to an average boost of 0.7
percent over a decade.”

        The Washington Times
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(6/26, Dinan) report that the CBO said that “the government is now staring
at $100 trillion in total debt.” According to the CBO, “spending will
surge, while taxes will only tick up slightly, producing deep annual
deficits that will amass into a potentially catastrophic debt.” CQ Roll Call
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(6/26, Krawzak) says the “current record for debt as a share of GDP was set
in 1946 when it hit 106 percent. Debt as a share of the economy is
projected to exceed that level in fiscal 2034 under the latest projections,
one year earlier than in last year’s long-term budget outlook.”

        *Tax Law Imposes New Tax On Churches, Synagogues, Nonprofits. *
Politico
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(6/26, Faler) reports that in “a little-noticed and surprising change”
contained in Republicans’ “recent tax-code rewrite” imposes “a new tax on
churches, synagogues and other nonprofits...that could cost some groups
tens of thousands of dollars.” The law “requires churches, hospitals,
colleges, orchestras and other historically tax-exempt organizations to
begin paying a 21 percent tax on some types of fringe benefits they provide
their employees,” which “could force thousands of groups that have long had
little contact with the IRS to suddenly begin filing returns and paying
taxes for the first time.” Politico says many groups “are stunned to learn
of the tax...and say it will be a significant financial and administrative
burden.”

        *BEA: $300 Billion Repatriated To US In First Quarter Of 2018.
*The Washington
Free Beacon
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(6/26, Cimmino) reports that according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis,
more than “$300 billion was repatriated to the United States through the
first quarter of 2018, a new record.” Council of Economic Advisors Chairman
Kevin Hassett “said US companies are investing more at home since
Republican-passed tax reform was implemented.” Hassett old Fox Business,
“US firms that used to build their factories overseas in order to avoid US
taxes, they stopped in their tracks because of the tax bill, they are
bringing all the money home.”
DOJ IG: Women Underrepresented In Key Jobs At Law Enforcement Agencies.

The Washington Post
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(6/26, Barrett) reports that women agents at the FBI, DEA, ATF and Marshals
Service are “still distinct minorities in the ranks of law enforcement,
according to a new audit that also found women are rarely promoted to key
jobs at the nation’s premier law enforcement agencies.” Justice Department
Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz issued a report Tuesday “detailing
stark differences between how women and men are employed in federal law
enforcement.” For example, in 2016, “women comprised just 16 percent of
criminal investigators employed at the agencies — even though women account
for 57 percent of the rest of the agencies’ workforce.”
Cancer Research
Study: Genetically Modified Polio Virus Improves Survival Of Glioblastoma
Patients.

The CBS Evening News
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(6/26, story 7, 2:15, Glor) reported, “There is some very encouraging news
in the fight against an aggressive type of brain cancer tonight.” A new
study “shows an experimental treatment first reported on ‘60 Minutes’ can
greatly increase survival rates.” In a segment on NBC Nightly News[image:
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(6/26, story 9, 2:05, Holt), NBC News medical correspondent John Torres,
MD, explained that Stephanie Hopper “was the first patient to undergo a
cutting edge brain cancer treatment at Duke University, where doctors
injected a form of the polio virus directly into her tumor. It’s designed
to target and kill tumor cells without patients contracting polio.” The AP
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(6/26, Marchione) reports, “The National Cancer Institute manufactured the
modified virus.” The AP adds, “Federal grants and several charities funded
the work.”

        In “To Your Health,” the Washington Post
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(6/26, McGinley) reports that “an early-stage clinical trial” indicated
that “a genetically modified polio virus improved the longer-term survival
of patients with” glioblastoma. Researchers found that “twenty-one percent
of the patients treated with the virus – all with disease that had recurred
– were alive after three years, compared with just 4 percent of those who
had undergone standard chemotherapy.” The findings
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were published online in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented
at a brain tumor conference. The Post adds, “While researchers have long
viewed such viruses as potential tools for directly killing cancer, they
now suspect that the viruses might be more effective at marshaling the
body’s immune system against malignancies, according to the National Cancer
Institute.”
Women With Dense Breasts Have Higher Recall, Biopsy Rates, Bigger Tumors.

Medscape
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(6/26, Harrison) reports that research indicates “women who are classified
as having dense breasts are more likely to have higher recall and biopsy
rates, bigger tumors, and more lymph node–positive disease on screening
mammography compared with women who do not have dense breasts.” The findings
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were published in Radiology. HealthDay
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(6/26, Gordon) reports, “Radiologists identify breast density using a
standardized scoring technique from the American College of Radiology.”
Rather than “using the ACR technique, which relies on a radiologist’s
subjective judgment, the new study used automated software – known as
automated volumetric analysis – to classify breast density.”

        HemOnc Today
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(6/26, Stevens) reports that the “study is important because it validates
than an automated means of density classification can correctly identify
women with dense tissue, and because it shows screening mammography has
poorer performance for women with dense tissue, Liane E. Philpotts, MD,
FACR, chief of breast imaging and professor of radiology and biomedical
imaging at Yale School of Medicine, wrote in an accompanying editorial
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Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“Princes Charming And Not So Charming.”* A New York Times
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(6/26) editorial says the timing of Jerusalem visits by President Trump’s
senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner and Britain’s Prince William
this week is a “curious coincidence” – but “neither appeared to offer much
for the future” of Middle East peace. The Times says a “symbolic gesture
seemed to be about all Prince William had to offer,” and Kushner “went out
of his way” to criticize Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. The Times says
even though Kushner may have “found a receptive audience in other Arab
states he has visited,” whatever economic assistance those nations “might
pledge to the Palestinians would not be enough, absence agreement on
borders, settlements, refugees or Jerusalem, to produce a peace agreement,
with or without Mr. Abbas.” The Times says if Kushner ultimately “produces
a proposal that the Palestinians reject out of hand, as he most likely
will, a true peace deal might be pushed back even further.”

        *“Bigoted And Feckless, The Travel Ban Is Pure Trump.” *The New
York Times
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(6/26) writes in an editorial, “So what can be said in this moment? Perhaps
this – that Mr. Trump’s travel ban is of a piece with the man himself. We
may not be able to look into the president’s soul, but we can look at his
words and actions over the last half century,” when “white racial fear has
always been at the core of” his “worldview. What’s so dangerous about
Tuesday’s ruling is that the Supreme Court has now implicitly blessed his
use of this strategy as a political organizing tool and as a governing
philosophy.”

        *“What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Victory Means.” *The New York
Times
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(6/27, Board) editorializes that by “rejecting the fourth-ranking member of
the party’s House leadership, Representative Joseph Crowley, in favor of
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old former Bernie Sanders campaign
organizer who has called for abolishing the nation’s immigration and
customs enforcement agency,” voters in New York’s 14th Congressional
District “delivered a message to Democrats and Republicans across the
country, and perhaps in Albany: The liberal base is fired up, showing up at
the polls, and may be ignored only at great political risk.” The Times
adds, “What remains to be seen, though, is whether Democratic leaders can
embrace these newcomers or will see them as a threat. That may determine
whether they are able to take back the House of Representatives in
November.”
Washington Post.

*“Trump’s Knee-Jerk Authoritarianism Is Shining Through.”* The Washington
Post
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(6/26) editorializes that it is “weeks such as these, in which a president
displays his authoritarian instincts, that prove the wisdom and importance
of the checks and balances the framers designed.” To the Post “the
Harley-Davidson episode is a simple lesson of the many, easily foreseen
costs of ripping up trade agreements,” and the President’s “authoritarian
reaction – to bluster and bully companies into doing what the leader
demands in the face of his irrational economic management – will not change
the sharp financial realities Mr. Trump is imposing on companies across the
country.” Adds the Post, “It used to be a core Republican principle that
the government should not dictate where companies invest. ... The framers
of the Constitution gave lawmakers the power to rein in the executive on
such matters; they should use it.”

        *“Maryland’s Embarrassing Voter Registration Bungle.” *In an
editorial, the Washington Post
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(6/26) says that while there is “no evidence to suggest that Maryland
officials deliberately set out to subvert public confidence in primary
contests Tuesday by failing to transmit updated voter registration
information to state election authorities, leaving thousands to cast
provisional ballots at the polls,” if that had been their intent, “they
could hardly have done a more effective – meaning destructive – job.” The
Post calls for “a fuller accounting” of what occurred, arguing that “this
is the sort of mistake that will further discourage voters from bothering
to participate.”

        *“Trump Has Not Been Vindicated.” *The Washington Post
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(6/26) editorializes that “Trump has not been vindicated,” by the Supreme
Court ruling upholding his travel ban, because “he has been enabled to save
face after a series of defeats in the lower courts and in the court of
aroused public opinion.” The Post adds that “though still on the books and
still inflicting arbitrary harm on would-be entrants to the United States,
as Justice Stephen G. Breyer noted in a thoughtful dissent, the Trump
policy was forced to change; checks and balances did operate to that
extent. ... These days, hope itself is a kind of victory.”

        *Ignatius: Space Revolution Is Already Underway. *Washington Post
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(6/26) columnist David Ignatius says the “space force” initiative is
“certainly a Trumpian idea: big and bold, with a Hollywood glitz factor;
highly disruptive of the status quo; and lacking in any detailed planning
about implementation.” Many experts agree that “revamping space defense
makes some sense, though they caution that it requires a serious public
debate about how to get maximum benefit at minimum cost.” Ignatius says
private companies are already “pioneering new launch technologies that are
driving down costs; Russia and China are developing exotic space weapons
that could cripple the United States in any future conflict,” so a “space
revolution” is undoubtedly “underway,” albeit “quite apart from Trump’s
edicts.” Therefore, Ignatius concludes, it is “a good moment to think about
reshaping space defense – creatively but carefully.”

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