Subject: FW: Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing for Monday, July 2, 2018
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Office of Vice President Biden Intelligence Briefing

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*Monday, July 2, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden In Ohio: Trump Has No “Ideology Other Than Aggrandizing Power.”
<#S1>

• Biden Rallies Support For Jealous At Maryland Democratic Party “Unity
Celebration.” <#S2>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Predicts Quick Supreme Court Confirmation “If I Pick The Right
Person.” <#S3>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump Says He’ll Delay Signing NAFTA Deal Until After Midterms. <#S4>

• Bolton Downplays Reports On North Korea Weapons Concealment. <#S5>

• Bolton: Trump To Discuss “Range Of Issues” During “Unstructured” Summit
With Putin. <#S6>

• Merkel’s Bavarian Allies Divided Over EU Migrant Deal. <#S7>

• Mexican Voters Deliver Leftist López Obrador “Landslide Victory.” <#S8>

• At Least 19 Killed In Afghanistan Attack Targeting Afghan Sikhs, Hindus.
<#S9>

• Trump Demands OPEC Pump More Oil. <#S10>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Trump: Democrats “Will Never Win Another Election” With Calls To Abolish
ICE. <#S11>

• NYTimes Profiles Progressive Women Running For Office. <#S12>

• Trump Says He Wants To Stay “Uninvolved” In Russia Probe, “At Least For
Now.” <#S13>

• Trump: Tax Reform Package Has Been Successful. <#S14>

• WPost: States Moving To Fill Gaps Washington Creating In ACA. <#S15>

• Portland Police Declare Riot, Revoke Permit As Antifa Disrupts Protest.
<#S16>

• Seattle Bans Plastic Straws, Utensils In Restaurants. <#S17>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• DNA-Level Biomarker May Help Predict Survival In Glioma Patients. <#S18>

• Enzalutamide Found To Postpone Metastasis For Some Prostate Cancer
Patients. <#S19>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S20>

• Washington Post. <#S21>
Biden in the News
Biden In Ohio: Trump Has No “Ideology Other Than Aggrandizing Power.”

Media coverage of former Vice President Joe Biden’s Friday appearance in
Cincinnati, Ohio – where he campaigned with and helped raise cash for
gubernatorial hopeful Richard Cordray (D) – largely focuses on Biden’s
remarks on President Trump and his Administration. The Cincinnati Enquirer
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(6/29, Horn, Thompson) reported that while visiting a local barbershop with
Cordray, “all the questions Biden fielded were about his own plans, and
about the current occupant of the White House. ‘I don’t think he has any
ideology other than aggrandizing power,’ Biden said of Trump. ‘It’s not
like he’s liberal or conservative.’” Biden “said Trump’s only goal is to
unravel the legacy of President Barack Obama. ... He said Trump has
undermined protections in the Affordable Care Act, stoked the flames of
racial hatred and opened the door for Republicans to roll back Medicare,
Medicaid and Social Security. ‘I think he’s been on a mission,’ Biden
said.” WCPO-TV
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Cincinnati (6/29) broadcast video of Biden visiting the barbershop, and
showed him making the “aggrandizing power” remark about Trump.

        *Biden Says Charlottesville Violence Led Him To Speak Out Against
Trump. *In an online article, WCPO-TV
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Cincinnati (6/29) reported that Biden “initially felt compelled to spend
the first year of...Trump’s presidency keeping mum, he said Friday evening,
in order to let the fledgling administration breathe. He changed his mind
Aug. 12, 2017, when white supremacists marched through the city of
Charlottesville, Virginia, and one of them killed anti-racist protester
Heather Heyer.” Biden, speaking with reporters in the barbershop, said, “I
couldn’t remain silent after I saw those Nazis – neo-Nazis – coming out of
fields carrying torches in one of the historic cities in America, followed
by and accompanied by white supremacists, and them being objected to by
other citizens and the president saying there are good people in both
places. I mean, come on.” In a broadcast, WCPO-TV[image: Image removed by
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Cincinnati's Good Morning Tri-State Weekend (6/30) showed a clip of Biden
making the “neo-Nazis coming out of fields carrying torches” remark.

        WKYC-TV
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Cleveland (6/30) reported that Biden “still isn’t giving any hints about
whether he’ll run for president in 2020...but that’s not stopping him from
nipping at President Trump. He says President Trump will have to make some
cuts in social programs to cover losses in revenue from this year’s
tax-relief law.” WNWO-TV
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Toledo, OH (6/29) broadcast a similar report.

        *Biden On Trump SCOTUS Pick: “All He Needs Is One More Vote” To
Overturn Roe V. Wade. *In a broadcast highlighting Biden’s visit to the
barbershop, WXIX-TV
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Cincinnati (6/29) reported that he commented on “the upcoming Supreme Court
pick by President Trump. Biden says he’s worried a conservative justice
would overturn Roe v. Wade.” Biden was shown saying that he’s concerned
about “basic settled law being completely dismissed. And I believe the
President has made it clear he’d like to undo Roe v. Wade. All he needs is
one more vote.” MSNBC The Beat
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(6/29) broadcast video of Biden making the same remarks, and WDTN-TV[image:
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Dayton, OH (6/29) showed a clip on its broadcast of Biden saying of the
Supreme Court vacancy, “When there has been a divided government and when
the nation has been divided, Presidents have gone out and found consensus
candidates. Now, we know there is going to be a conservative justice and
that’s not a surprise.”

        In an online article, WTTE-TV
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Columbus, OH (6/30) briefly reported on Biden’s appearance in Cincinnati in
support of Cordray, and added that Biden “went to Cleveland for a
fundraiser for Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown’s re-election bid.”
WKRC-TV
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Cincinnati (6/30) broadcast a similar report, and WTTE-TV[image: Image
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Columbus, OH (6/29) also briefly reported on Biden’s Cincinnati visit.

        *During Flight, Reporter’s Grandmother Asked Biden About 2020
Intentions. *In a brief story headlined “Joe Biden Grilled By Reporter’s
Grandmother On Flight To Cincy,” the Cincinnati Enquirer
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(6/29, Strickley) reported, “Yes, the headline is sarcastic. It was more
like polite banter than a grilling. But Enquirer FC Cincinnati and Xavier
reporter Pat Brennan’s grandma did ask...Biden the question most reporters
would want the opportunity to ask him: Are you running for president in
2020? He told her he had not decided. Biden was seated next to Betty
Brennan of Minersville, Pennsylvania on an American Airlines flight from
Philadelphia to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.”
Biden Rallies Support For Jealous At Maryland Democratic Party “Unity
Celebration.”

The Baltimore Sun
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(6/30, Donovan) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden “joined
Maryland Democrats Saturday night at Camden Yards to rally support for”
ex-NAACP chief Ben Jealous (D), who is challenging Gov. Larry Hogan (R)
this fall. At the event, which was held “just four days after” Jealous won
“his party’s contested primary,” Biden “said Democrats need to end
inner-party bickering to take back Congress and win local and state
elections to defeat a” GOP “that he said favors corporations and wealthy
donors over middle-class, working families.” Said Biden, “We have to stop
them. We can’t do it if we’re divided.” The Sun added, “Democratic Party
sources said Jealous raised about $150,000 at the ‘unity celebration.’”

        Drawing from the Sun story, The Hill
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(7/1, Birnbaum) similarly reported on Saturday’s event, and added that
Biden’s “support of Jealous comes at a moment when the Democratic party is
grappling with an apparent veer to the left. Self-described democratic
socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated Rep. Joe Crowley (NY) in an
upset win last week, sparking conversation about the direction of the
party.” Drawing from the Sun story, the AP
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(7/1) also briefly reported on the event. In a broadcast, WBAL-TV[image:
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Baltimore (7/1) reported that Saturday’s “the event serves as the party’s
marquee fundraising event for the year.” The report briefly mentioned that
Biden “delivered the keynote address.” In an online article, WBFF-TV
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Baltimore (6/30) also offered a brief report.
Leading the News
Trump Predicts Quick Supreme Court Confirmation “If I Pick The Right
Person.”

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(7/1, Bartiromo), President Trump vowed he would “pick somebody who is
outstanding” to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. He
also predicted that while Democrats would work to resist his choice, “I
think it will go quickly if I pick the right person.” The Washington
Examiner
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(7/1, Chaitin) reports Trump also predicted a “big week” ahead, declaring
in a tweet
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Sunday he will be focused on deciding who he will nominate to succeed
Kennedy.

        Media reports, however, cast Trump as ready for a fight with
Democrats over his pick. On ABC World News Tonight[image: Image removed by
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(7/1, story 4, 2:50, Llamas) Tara Palmeri said Trump is “preparing for
battle tonight over his highly anticipated Supreme Court pick.” Trump:
“It’s probably going to be vicious because the other side, all they can do
obstruct and resist. You know, their whole thing is resist.” NBC Nightly
News
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(7/1, story 6, 2:00, Jackson) reported, “A vicious but fast fight. That’s
what President Trump says he expects once he announces the second Supreme
Court nominee of his Administration” next week under “his self-imposed
deadline.” Kelly O’Donnell said Trump, who is “on the trail this week, is
already touting the influence of his high court selection to rally his own
base.” The CBS Weekend News
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(7/1, story 4, 2:40, Quijano) reported that while Trump “voiced confidence
that his yet-to-be-announced Supreme Court nominee will be confirmed soon,”
his choice “needs the backing of nearly all Senate Republicans.” According
to the Wall Street Journal
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(7/1, Armour, Nicholas), White House officials are also meeting with
Democrats, including the three who voted last year for Justice Neil
Gorsuch: Sens. Joe Manchin, Heidi Heitkamp and Joe Donnelly.

        USA Today
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(7/1, Estepa) reports that while Trump said he is “going to pick someone
who is outstanding,” the “eventual nominee already faces a hurdle:
Republicans hold a slim 51-49 majority in the Senate, and Sen. John McCain
is out as he battles brain cancer. That means the president needs to cater
to senators on both sides of the aisle if he hopes to get a majority to
vote in favor of his pick.”

        Reports also continue to cast the issue of abortion as likely to be
a focal point of the eventual nominee’s confirmation hearings. Breitbart
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(7/1, Key) says Trump “hinted at the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade”
during his interview with Fox News, saying the legality of abortion “could
very well end up with states at some point.” Asked if abortion rights
should be decided by the states, Trump said, “Well, maybe someday it will
be to the states. You never know how that’s going to turn out. That’s a
very complex question. The Roe v. Wade is probably the one that people are
talking about in terms of having an effect. But we will see what happens.
But it could very well end up with states at some point.”

        TIME
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(7/1, Langone) reports that in the interview with Fox News, “Trump
acknowledged that the status of Roe v. Wade is one of the key issues in the
public’s mind,” but Newsweek
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(7/1, Fearnow) says he “hesitantly added, however, that he’s not going to
be ‘so specific with the questions’ used to query” candidates. Yahoo! News
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(7/1, Walsh) reports Trump, however, told Fox News, “They’re all saying,
‘Don’t do that. You don’t do that. You shouldn’t do that.’ But I’m putting
conservative people on and I’m very proud of Neil Gorsuch. He’s been
outstanding. His opinions are you know so well written, so brilliant. And
I’m going to try and do something like that but I don’t think I’m going to
be so specific in the questions I’ll be asking. And I’m actually told I
shouldn’t be.”

        Still, NJ News
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(7/1, Salant) notes that Trump “has pledged to nominate justices who will
overturn Roe v. Wade,” and “said he would choose from a list of people
vetted by the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group that opposes
abortion. So he already knows how anyone on the list will vote on abortion,
meaning he doesn’t have to ask their views on the issue.” The Washington
Examiner
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(7/1, Williams) reports “Trump judicial adviser” and vice president of the
Federalist Society, Leonard Leo, on Sunday “said none of the reportedly top
individuals on the administration’s shortlist of candidates...have a clear
position” on Roe v. Wade. Leo told Fox News, “Prospective nominees like
Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Barrett, and Raymond Kethledge, and Tom Hardiman
are people who have not specifically said they oppose Roe v. Wade, and
their writings and their work show that they are very fair.”

        The Washington Free Beacon
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(7/1, Kugle) notes that “all four names Leo mentioned are on Trump’s list
of potential Supreme Court justices,” but when asked if they are the front
runners, Leo said, “No, I don’t think it’s fair to say that, and here’s
why. The president is really in the driver’s seat along with the assistance
of White House counsel Don McGahn. Those are people who are under very
serious consideration.” Sen. Richard Blumenthal said on CBS’ Face the
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(7/1, Brennan), “The President has said that he will appoint someone only
if he or she would ‘automatically overturn Roe v. Wade.’” He added, “This
decision will shape the Court for years to come and it could lead to
criminalizing reproductive rights, as they were prior to Roe v. Wade when
women were prosecuted and women died.”

        The New York Times
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(7/1, A1, Belluck, Hoffman), however, reports that “even without legal
abortion,” the nation “would be very different from America before abortion
was legal.” A “full-fledged return to an era of back-alley, coat-hanger
abortions seems improbable” due to “a burst of scientific innovation has
produced more effective, simpler and safer ways to prevent pregnancies and
to stop them after conception.”

        The AP
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(6/30, Harrisburg (PA), Patriot-News), meanwhile, reports that “some
evangelical leaders are downplaying their fortune on an issue that has
defined their movement for decades.” Jerry Falwell Jr. told the AP, “What
people don’t understand is that if you overturn Roe v. Wade, all that does
is give the states the right to decide whether abortion is legal or
illegal. My guess is that there’d probably be less than 20 states that
would make abortion illegal if given that right.”

        E.J. Dionne Jr. writes in his Washington Post
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(7/1, Dionne) column that abortion rights supporters were “among the
earliest to speak out forcefully against a right-wing nomination from
Trump,” and the abortion question “takes on a special urgency because
Kennedy, while deeply conservative in so many areas, was a relative
moderate on social issues.” Still, Dionne argues that while the “future of
abortion rights is central to the coming battle...so are civil rights,
corporate power and our democratic capacity to correct social injustices.
Conservatives should not be allowed to distract attention from the aspects
of their agenda that would horrify even many who voted for Donald Trump.”

        *Collins Won’t Support Nominee With “Demonstrated Hostility” To Roe
v. Wade. *On NBC Nightly News
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(7/1, story 6, 2:00, Jackson), Kelly O’Donnell said “a swing vote in the
Senate will likely be Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, who supports
abortion rights.” Collins, Reuters
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(7/1, Dunsmuir) reports, said Sunday that she will not support a nominee
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“I would not support a nominee who demonstrated hostility to Roe v. Wade.”
On ABC’s This Week
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(7/1, Raddatz), Collins said, “I told [Trump] that I was looking for a
nominee that would demonstrate a respect for precedent.” Reuters says her
comments “narrowed the path to confirmation facing any nominee” the
President selects. The New York Times
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(7/1, Fandos, Cochrane) says her remarks Sunday “appeared to edge beyond
the position that Ms. Collins staked out in conversations with reporters
last week, when she made clear that she saw Roe v. Wade as precedent that
should not be overturned. She had not said explicitly that the view could
sway her vote.”

        The Washington Post
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(7/1, Long) reports Collins “said Trump assured her that he would not ask
nominees whether they would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade,” which she said
she feels would be “inappropriate” for Trump to ask. The Hill
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(7/1, Samuels) reports Collins also suggested Trump “broaden his search
beyond the list of 25 candidates that the White House released in
November.” The White House “did not immediately respond to a request for
comment on Sunday.” To the New York Post
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(7/1, Moore) Collins is “a crucial vote in confirming a Supreme Court
nominee in the Senate,” to Bloomberg News
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(7/1, Niquette, Condon) she is “crucial,” to the AP
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(7/1, Yen, Thomas) she is “a key vote,” and the Washington Times
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(7/1, Richardson) says she “seen as critical in approving President Trump’s
nominee to fill the seat.”

        *Durbin: Trump Seeking Nominee To Overturn Roe v. Wade, ACA.
*The Washington
Times
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(7/1, Richardson) reports Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin on Sunday
“accused President Trump of seeking a Supreme Court pick who will overturn
Roe v. Wade and Obamacare in what has become a rallying cry for Democrats
trying to defeat the still-unnamed nominee.” Appearing on Fox News Sunday,
Durbin said, “The President is looking for someone who will overturn Roe v.
Wade. But even equally important, he’s looking for someone on the court who
will make sure that they rule that the Affordable Care Act’s protection of
those with preexisting conditions is unconstitutional.”

        *Cantwell: Wrong Vote On Nominee Could Be “Career-Ending Move.” *The
Washington Times
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(7/1, Richardson) reports Sen. Maria Cantwell (D) “warned her colleagues
Sunday that a wrong decision” on Trump’s nominee could become a
“career-ending move.” Cantwell said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” yesterday, “I
think that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle know that this vote
could be one of the key votes of their entire career. And they know that no
matter what spin comes out of the White House, if they vote for somebody
who’s going to change precedent, it could be a career-ending move.” The Hill
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(7/1, Birnbaum) also reports Cantwell’s comments.

        A Washington Times
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(7/1, McLaughlin) analysis, meanwhile, says “red-state Democrats seeking
re-election this fall were already facing the difficult task of navigating
between their own virulently anti-Trump national party and the
Republican-leaning voters needed to win back home. But that narrow path has
become even more of a tightrope now that incumbents will be asked to take
sides” on Trump’s nomination. The Times says if Republicans “hold firm, the
Senate is likely to vote on a Supreme Court nominee just as the midterm
campaign season hits full stride.” But it “also means vulnerable Democrats
in states such as West Virginia and North Dakota will have to choose
between a president who easily won their states in 2016 and a frenzied
liberal base intent on blocking anyone he chooses.”

        *ABC News: White House Officials Eyeing Exits Likely To Stay
Through Confirmation. *ABC News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=036-2ec&t=c>
(7/1, Palmeri) reports on its website that “top White House officials worn
out from the chaos of the Trump administration and eyeing the exits in the
coming weeks are now considering staying on through the confirmation of a
Supreme Court justice, three White House officials and two outside
advisors” say. White House Counsel Don McGahn, Legislative Affairs Director
Marc Short and Domestic Policy Director Andrew Bremberg “have told
colleagues in the days following Supreme Court Justice Kennedy’s retirement
announcement that they plan to stay on staff through the confirmation
process.”

        *Toomey: Special Counsel Investigation Shouldn’t Prevent Trump
Nomination. *Sen. Pat Toomey (R), asked on CBS’ Face the Nation[image:
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<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=037-fca&t=c>
(7/1, Brennan) about the question of the Special Counsel investigation and
the probability of the justice Trump appoints ruling in the case, said, “I
think that is a ridiculous argument that is made as just an attempt to make
way for the real position, which is that President Trump should never be
able to confirm a vacancy.” He added, “I don’t remember hearing the
Democrats making that argument when President Bill Clinton was in fact
personally under investigation when a vacancy occurred. My understanding is
that President Trump is not himself personally the subject of the
investigation even. I think that is a non-argument.”
Foreign Policy
Trump Says He’ll Delay Signing NAFTA Deal Until After Midterms.

The AP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=038-51c&t=c>
(7/1, Thomas) reports that in his interview that aired yesterday on Fox
News’ Sunday Morning Futures
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(7/1), President Trump said he “intends to delay signing a revised version
of the North American Free Trade Agreement until after the fall midterm
elections, a move aimed at reaching a better deal with Canada and Mexico.”
Trump said “that he could quickly sign an agreement with the United States’
neighbors,” but, “I’m not happy with it. I want to make it more fair. ... I
want to wait until after the election.” Trump “again threatened to impose
tariffs on imported cars, trucks and auto parts,” saying, “The cars are the
big ones.” The Wall Street Journal
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=03a-ecb&t=c>
(7/1, Schlesinger) says Trump views the threat to impose auto tariffs as
his greatest leverage to win concessions from trading partners.

        *Canada Begins Imposing Tariffs On US Goods. *The AP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=03b-20b&t=c>
(7/1, Wiseman, Lindeman) reports that Canada yesterday began imposing
tariffs “on $12.6 billion in US goods as retaliation for the Trump
administration’s new taxes on steel and aluminum imported to the United
States.” While some US products, “mostly steel and iron, face 25 percent
tariffs, the same penalty the United States slapped on imported steel at
the end of May,” others, “from ketchup to pizza to dishwasher detergent,
will face a 10 percent tariff at the Canadian border, the same as America’s
tax on imported aluminum.” The Washington Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=03c-9fd&t=c>
(7/1, Long) says Trump “defiantly stood by his tariffs on Sunday as Canada
hit back hard, Mexico was poised to elect a new leader eager to confront
him, and the European Union issued a scathing condemnation of his policy as
‘in effect, a tax on the American people.’” Trump “brushed off the mounting
pressure” and “shrugged off fears that the tariffs will hurt the economy.”
Trump said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=03d-4cd&t=c>,
“Every country is calling every day, saying, ‘Let’s make a deal, let’s make
a deal. It’s going to all work out.”

        *EU Analysis: Auto Tariffs Will Cost US Economy $13-14B. *Politico
Europe
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=03e-752&t=c>
(7/1, Eder) reports that in response to a US request for comment on the
issue of imposing tariffs on European cars, the European Commission
“warned” that such tariffs “will be harmful first and foremost for the US
economy.” The 11-page document dated this past Friday and sent to the
Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security says the EU’s
internal analysis “shows that an additional import tariff of 25 percent,
applied to automobiles and automotive parts, would in first instance have a
negative impact on US GDP in the order of 13-14 billion USD, and the
current account balance of the US would be not affected positively.”

        Meanwhile, the Financial Times
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(7/1, A1, Brunsden) reports that the European Commission has warned the US
that Trump’s threat to impose auto tariffs risks sparking retaliatory
measures valued at as much as $300 billion.

        *Trump Says GM Will Build Cars In America. *The Washington Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=040-0ed&t=c>
(7/1, Long) reports that after GM warned on Friday that Trump’s “tariffs
and the retaliation from other nations will hurt the company, forcing GM to
cut jobs and putting it at a disadvantage against foreign competitors.” On Fox
News’ Sunday Morning Futures
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=041-072&t=c>,
Trump “fired back” at the company, “saying the only consequence would be
that more cars will be built in the United States.” Said Trump, “What’s
going to really happen is there’s going to be no tax. You know why? They’re
going to build their cars in America. They’re going to make them here.”

        *Trump: Harley Will Take a “Big Hit” For Building Motorcycles
Outside US. *The New York Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=042-ea1&t=c>
(7/1, Schwab) reports that in an interview that aired on Fox News Sunday
Morning Futures
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Sunday, Trump “accused American motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson of using
tariffs as an excuse to produce more bikes overseas.” Trump said, “Look, I
devoted a lot of time to Harley-Davidson. I treated ​them good.” Trump
added, “I guarantee you everybody that ever bought a Harley Davidson voted
for Trump,” and “I would have to – they call them Bikers for Trump. There’s
hundreds.” Trump said that Harley-Davidson “made this deal at the beginning
of the year, long before they ever heard of the word tariff,” and he added
that the company would take a “big hit” for “not building its bikes in the
United States.” Trump said, “Harley enthusiasts are my voters. ... They
don’t want Harley-Davidson getting cute to make $2 more.”

        Politico
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=044-1f5&t=c>
(7/1, Griffiths) says Trump’s comments about Harley “echoed his comments on
Twitter during the week,” when he wrote
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=045-2bf&t=c>,
“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!”

        *Draft Bill Ordered By Trump Would Declare US Abandonment Of WTO
Rules. *Jonathan Swan writes on Axios
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=046-7be&t=c>
(7/1) that the site “has obtained a leaked draft of a Trump administration
bill – ordered by the president himself – that would declare America’s
abandonment of fundamental World Trade Organization rules.” The “stunning”
draft “essentially provides Trump a license to raise US tariffs at will,
without congressional consent and international rules be damned.” A source
familiar with the bill said, “It would be the equivalent of walking away
from the WTO and our commitments there without us actually notifying our
withdrawal,” The source who described the bill as “insane,” said, “The good
news is Congress would never give this authority to the president.”

        *Bloomberg News: Winner Of US-China Trade War Will Be Who Loses
Least. *Bloomberg News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=047-2d2&t=c>
(7/1, Miller, Curran) considers the potential impact of the looming trade
war between the US and China, reporting that as the two countries “prepare
to slap duties on each other, risking a spiral of tit-for-tat tariffs that
imperils global growth,” the “victor in an economic war of attrition will
instead be which nation loses least.” According to Bloomberg Economics,
“the looming US tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports and a
like-for-like retaliation from Beijing could cost China about 0.2 percent
of gross domestic product and the US a little less, a manageable amount in
both instances.” However, “where the dispute goes next that poses a bigger
threat. The direct cost to the world’s two biggest economies is probably
the most straightforward forecast. From a breakdown in the global supply
chain to a ratcheting up of military tension over the South China Sea, the
collateral damage represents an incalculable unknown.”

        *Johnson: Congress Must Reclaim Tariff Power From Executive Branch.
*Sen. Ron Johnson said on Fox News’ The Journal Editorial Report[image:
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<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=048-d4d&t=c>
(6/30), “I think certainly over time Congress must regain so much of the
power and this is just one of the areas in terms of tariffs. We need to
reclaim that power. Let’s face it, we need an executive to negotiate trade
deals but those should be negotiated with full consultation and the deals
should come back to Congress for ratification and approval.”

        *China Targeting Taiwanese Chip Makers. *The Wall Street Journal
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=049-6c1&t=c>
(7/1, Yap) reports that Taiwanese officials and company executives say
China is targeting Taiwanese manufacturers who make chips for American
companies such as Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. China manufactures most of
the smartphones and computers in the world, but it imports nearly all of
the semiconductors needed to run the devices. By targeting Taiwanese
manufacturers, the officials and executives say, China is seeking to reduce
its dependence on foreign suppliers.
Bolton Downplays Reports On North Korea Weapons Concealment.

National Security Adviser Bolton “on Sunday downplayed reports suggesting
that North Korea is trying to conceal parts of its nuclear weapons
program,” reports Politico
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=04a-8b2&t=c>
(7/1, Kullgren). “I don’t really don’t want to comment on anything related
to intelligence,” Bolton told CBS’
Face The Nation
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=04b-fe6&t=c>,
adding, “I’d rather discuss it as a more general proposition.” Bolton
continued, “We’re very well aware of North Korea’s patterns of behavior
over decades of negotiating with the United States. We know exactly what
the risks are of them using negotiations to drag out the length of time
they have to continue their nuclear, chemical, biological weapons programs,
and ballistic missiles” He said President Trump “would like to see these
discussions move promptly to get a resolution. This has been the advice
that China’s leaders Xi Jinping has given us as well.” Bolton reiterated
that “we’re going to try and proceed to implement what the two leaders
agreed to in Singapore, but rather than have a-a series of reports things
are going better things are not going well, they are concealing this,
they’re not concealing that. Really it doesn’t serve the purpose of
advancing the negotiations.”

        Bolton similarly told Fox
News Fox News Sunday
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(7/1, Wallace), “We are using the full range of our capabilities to
understand what North Korea is doing,” and “it doesn’t profit the
possibility of eliminating North Korea’s nuclear weapons to talk on a
day-to-day basis, they are doing this, they are not doing this, they are
doing the other thing.” He reiterated, “There’s nobody involved in this
discussion with North Korea in the administration who is overburdened by
naivety,” and Trump “has been very clear he’s not going to make mistakes at
prior administrations made.”

        The AP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=04d-842&t=c>
(7/1, Pennington, Baldor) reports Bolton also said the Administration has
“developed a program” to dismantle North Korea’s weapons program, and that
“Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be discussing this with the North
Koreans in the near future about really how to dismantle all of their WMD
and ballistic missile programs in a year.” Bolton added, “If they have the
strategic decision already made to do that, and they’re cooperative, we can
move very quickly.” The AP says Bolton’s remarks “appeared to be the first
time the Trump administration had publicly suggested a timeline for North
Korea to fulfill the commitment leader Kim Jong Un made at a summit with
President Donald Trump last month for the ‘complete denuclearization’ of
the Korean Peninsula.”

        A New York Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=04e-dca&t=c>
(7/1, Sanger, Broad) analysis says Bolton suggested “a far more aggressive
schedule than the one Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlined for Congress
recently, reflecting a strain inside the administration over how to match
promises with realism.” Pompeo is expected to arrive in Pyongyang this week
“with a proposed schedule for disarmament that would begin with a
declaration by North Korea of all its weapons, production facilities and
missiles,” but his advisers “have cautioned him that North Korea will not
give up its arsenal of 20 to 60 weapons until the last stages of any
disarmament plan – if it gives them up at all.” The Times says the “idea is
to establish multiple tests of the North’s willingness to carry through on
Mr. Kim’s vague commitment to Mr. Trump,” but under the proposals
“presented to Mr. Pompeo, the dismantling of existing nuclear weapons would
come last.”

        “Some experts” also “disputed Bolton’s optimistic time frame,”
saying that “the complete process could take far longer,” Reuters
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=04f-261&t=c>
(7/1, Chiacu) reports. Thomas Countryman, a State Department arms control
officer under former President Obama, commented, “I do not believe it would
be possible to verify full dismantlement within a year, nor have I yet seen
evidence of a firm DPRK decision to undertake full dismantlement.” Stanford
University professor and nuclear scientist Siegfried Hecker “predicted it
would take around 10 years to dismantle and clean up a substantial part of
North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear site.” Reports of North Korea’s weapons
program concealment also elicited skepticism. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)
“said she was troubled by the news reports,” and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
“echoed the need for skepticism.”

        Collins told CNN’s State of
the Union
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=050-caa&t=c>
(7/1, Tapper), “North Korea has a long history of cheating on agreements
that it’s made with previous administrations.” She added, “I supported the
President talking with the North Korean dictator because I do believe that
has the potential for increasing our safety and eventually leading to the
denuclearization of North Korea but there’s no doubt that in order to
achieve that goal, we need verifiable unimpeded reliable inspections and
without those inspections, we can have no guarantee that North Korea is not
cheating once again.”

        Graham told NBC’s Meet the
Press
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(7/1, Todd), “Nobody should be surprised” by the reports, “but here’s what
I would tell North Korea; there is no place for Donald Trump to kick the
can down the road, you met with him in person, he is offering you a deal of
a lifetime. I would take it.” Graham continued, “It would concern me a lot
if they are expanding the nuclear program as they meet with the president.”

        *Trump Lauds North Korea Meeting. *In an appearance on [image:
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<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=052-3e9&t=c>
(7/1, Bartiromo), Trump said of North Korean denuclearization, “I think
they are very serious about it; we had a very good chemistry. you know, we
had a lot of points.” He added, “We went on a lot of different points, not
to go over them, denuclearization getting the remains back from great
heroes, great people, getting the hostages back.” Trump continued, “I said
let’s not do – I call them the war games, they are dropping bombs all over
the place every six months.” He said, “It is unbelievably expensive to do
that; planes fly in from Guam, these massive, you know, bombers, and they
are flying in from Guam, it is crazy. so we gave nothing.” Trump
reiterated, “I really believe North Korea has a tremendous future. I got a
long really – I got along really well with Chairman Kim.” He added, “We had
a great chemistry.”

        *US, North Korean Officials Hold Talks On Implementing Summit
Agreement. *The Washington Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=053-44a&t=c>
(7/1, Wolfgang, Miller) says Bolton’s claim of an “ambitious time frame”
comes as the Administration “is quietly accelerating negotiations with
North Korea in what analysts describe as the crucial next step that will
make or break the denuclearization agreement struck at the Singapore
summit.” A US delegation “wants to put some meat on the bone of the
four-point declaration signed June 12 in Singapore by President Trump and
Mr. Kim.” The US officials “are prodding Pyongyang to provide a full
inventory of its nuclear weapons program and to agree on a timeline for
dismantling it, though it’s not yet clear whether Mr. Kim would agree to
the kind of ambitious timetable Mr. Bolton laid out Sunday.”

        Senior State Department officials told CNN
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=054-bdf&t=c>
(7/1, Labott) that Sung Kim, the US Ambassador to the Philippines and “one
of the key US officials dealing with the North Koreans leading up to the
Trump-Kim summit,” is leading the delegation, which is slated to meet with
North Korean officials at the border village of Panmunjob on Sunday. The
talks constitute “the first face-to-face conversations between the two
countries since the summit last month” and “were held to work on
implementing the agreement reached between the two leaders, the officials
said.” Separately, Anthony Ruggiero, a North Korea expert at the Foundation
for Defense of Democracies and former official at the State and Treasury
Departments, “will start his job as director of North Korea issues on the
National Security Council on Monday, the think tank’s chief executive, Mark
Dubowitz, said in a post on Twitter.”

        *WTimes: Nations Growing Impatient With North Korea Sanctions.
*A Washington
Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=055-212&t=c>
(7/1, Malek) analysis says the Administration “has insisted repeatedly that
tough international sanctions will remain in place until North Korean
leader Kim Jong-un honors his commitment to permanently give up his nuclear
arsenal,” but “there are growing signs other countries looking to do
business with Pyongyang aren’t willing to wait that long.” Secretary of
State Pompeo “acknowledged at a Senate budget hearing last week” that US
officials “have already observed some ‘modest’ backsliding by China in
enforcing strict sanctions on the North.” Yet, even President Trump “has
hinted that the deadline for doing business may be flexible.” The President
“sees business and investment opportunities for North Korea, one of the
most isolated economies in the world, should the nuclear question be
resolved.” Some private analysts caution, however, that “efforts to ease or
evade the sanctions could backfire if Mr. Trump reverses course or
concludes that the diplomatic route has not borne fruit.”
Bolton: Trump To Discuss “Range Of Issues” During “Unstructured” Summit
With Putin.

In a Sunday appearance on CBS’ Face
the Nation
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=056-e19&t=c>
(7/1, Brennan), National Security Adviser Bolton said the goal of President
Trump’s upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin “is for the
two leaders to have a chance to sit down, not in the context of some
larger, multi-lateral meeting but just the two of them to go over what is
on their mind about a whole range of issues.” Bolton added, “We’ll see what
happens when the two of them get together.”

        Bolton similarly told Fox
News Sunday
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=057-7d6&t=c>
(7/1, Wallace) that “it’s very important to have this bilateral meeting not
on the margins of a larger meeting, but to have a conversation with
Vladimir Putin that covers the full range of issues. I expect it will be
somewhat unstructured, certainly in the one-on-one meeting but it will give
them a chance to go over some of these issues free of the pressure.” Bolton
added, “I think in establishing that line of communication the president
has very much in mind he wants to understand the Russian position and
perhaps more importantly he wants Vladimir Putin to understand our
position.” He said “if breakthroughs come from that, that will be great.
But frankly, having this meeting roughly a year and a half into the
administration is a key fact.” For example, Bolton said, “there are
possibilities for doing a larger negotiation on helping to get Iranian
forces out of Syria and back into Iran which would be a significant step
forward.”

        The Washington Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=058-94f&t=c>
(7/1, Nakamura) reports “Bolton dismissed a question about whether Trump
has been more willing to criticize US allies than authoritarian leaders of
rival nations, including Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.” He told Fox
News, “I don’t think anybody ought to have a case of the vapors over
discussions we have in NATO or the G-7 versus discussions we have with
Putin or Kim Jong Un. They’re very, very different; the president treats
them differently. He understands what the strategic interests are, and
that’s what he’s trying to pursue.”

        The New York Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=059-0f4&t=c>
(7/1, Moore) notes “Bolton met with Putin last week to lay the groundwork
for the meeting and said Putin continued to dismiss allegations of
interference.” Reuters
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=05a-e74&t=c>
(7/1, Chiacu) reports that on the issue of Russia’s annexation of Crimea,
Bolton said he discussed the matter with Putin during the 90-minute meeting
in Moscow. Bolton said that “Putin was pretty clear with me about it, and
my response was we’re going to have to agree to disagree on Ukraine.” He
reiterated, “That’s not the position of the United States.” Bolton said
during the Wednesday talks, “he discussed concerns about Russian meddling”
in the 2016 presidential election as well. The [image: Image removed by
sender. Video]CBS Weekend News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=05b-0fd&t=c>
(7/1, story 6, 1:50, Quijano) reported Bolton said during the Wednesday
talks, what Putin “said was, there was no meddling in 2016 by the Russian
state. ... I think that’s an interesting statement. I think it’s worth
pursuing. I’m sure the President will want the pursue it.”

        In an analysis, the Los Angeles Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=05c-12e&t=c>
(7/1, King) says Bolton, “who was previously known as a Russia hawk, made a
distinction between Putin’s previous flat denial of any Russian
involvement, saying that this time, the Russian leader had limited his
disavowal to any state interference in the 2016 US presidential vote,
implying that other actors were involved.”

        *Blumenthal Skeptical Of Russia Summit. *Sen. Richard Blumenthal
(D) told CBS’ Face the Nation
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=05d-24d&t=c>
(7/1, Brennan) that Trump’s “meeting in Helsinki is deeply alarming. Let’s
remember that Russia is an enemy and adversary continuing to attack our
nation through cyber and social media posing a direct threat in the 2018
election.” He said, “Donald Trump seems to be the only American in public
office who has refused to acknowledge explicitly their attack in 2016. They
continue to invade Ukraine, and they support a war criminal in Syria who
continues to attack his own people with chemical weapons.” Blumenthal also
warned that “the failure to make the Russians pay a price and legitimizing
Putin, a KGB thug, with this meeting is very dangerous.”

        *Bolton: Putin’s Claim Meddling Wasn’t Done By “Russian State” Is
“Worth Pursuing.” *The CBS Weekend News[image: Image removed by sender.
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<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=05e-88c&t=c>
(7/1, story 6, 1:50, Quijano) reported Trump “quickly changed the subject”
Sunday when asked on Fox News about his upcoming summit with Russian
President Vladimir Putin and whether he will bring up Russia’s meddling in
US elections. Trump: “I would like to see some answers as to why we didn’t
take the server, why the FBI didn’t take the server from the DNC.” National
Security Adviser Bolton, however, told CBS he brought the issue up in his
recent face-to-face meeting with Putin. Bolton: “What he said was, there
was no meddling in 2016 by the Russian state. ... I think that’s an
interesting statement. I think it’s worth pursuing. I’m sure the President
will want the pursue it.” CBS (Saberi) added that the planned summit has
“added to concern here in Europe that President Trump is moving closer to
Russia while criticizing the European Union and NATO.”
Merkel’s Bavarian Allies Divided Over EU Migrant Deal.

Reuters
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=05f-5cc&t=c>
(7/1, Poltz) reports leaders of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bavarian
ally, the Christian Social Union (CSU), “argued long into Sunday evening
over whether to accept immigration proposals the German chancellor brought
back from Brussels, heightening uncertainty over the future of her
government coalition.” Earlier, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, the CSU
chairman, “said he saw no alternative to turning some migrants back at the
German border, a party source said, setting him on a collision course with
Merkel.” The CSU “is divided over how best to face off a challenge from the
anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) in October’s regional
election, although Seehofer and Bavarian premier Markus Soeder are both
keen to force Merkel to harden her stance on refugees.” Most analysts
“expect Merkel to survive the clash with the CSU,” but “it is unlikely to
be the last occasion on which the sister party seeks to distance itself
from a chancellor it sees as too centrist for its own supporters.”

        The Wall Street Journal
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(7/1, Thomas, Marson) says Seehofer’s commends during the late Sunday
deliberations may steer Germany toward a government crisis, because if
Merkel fires Seehofer, effectively ending their parties’ seven-decade
alliance, Merkel’s coalition would no longer hold a parliamentary majority.
Seehofer will release a statement soon, according to a CSU official, who
declined to say whether the CSU may sever its coalition with Merkel’s
Christian Democratic Union or whether Seehofer intends to resign.
Mexican Voters Deliver Leftist López Obrador “Landslide Victory.”

The Los Angeles Times
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(7/1, McDonnell) reports, “Leftist candidate Andres Manuel López Obrador
has won Mexico’s presidential election as his competitors have conceded
based on exit polls showing he is headed for a landslide victory.” López
Obrador “vowed a sweeping ‘transformation’ of a nation where voters have
expressed broad discontent with rampant corruption, rising crime and a
sluggish economy.” President Trump tweeted
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his congratulations to López Obrador on Sunday night, writing, “I look very
much forward to working with him. There is much to be done that will
benefit both the United States and Mexico!” The Washington Post
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(7/1, Partlow, Averbuch) similarly says “López Obrador’s victory represents
an emphatic rejection of the traditional politicians whom he regularly
calls the ‘mafia of power.’” The Post adds that President Trump “loomed in
the background of this vote.” The President “was not a wedge issue in the
election – all candidates opposed his immigration and trade policies and
his anti-Mexican rhetoric – but the new Mexican president will have to
manage cross-border relations that are unusually fraught.”

        The New York Times
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(7/1, A1, Ahmed, Villegas) attributes López Obrador’s “landslide victory,”
which “upended the nation’s political establishment and handed him a
sweeping mandate to reshape the country,” to “a wave of populist anger
fueled by rampant corruption and violence.” The election outcome “puts a
leftist leader at the helm of Latin America’s second-largest economy for
the first time in decades, a prospect that has filled millions of Mexicans
with hope – and the nation’s elites with trepidation.” It also “represents
a clear rejection of the status quo in the nation, which for the last
quarter century has been defined by a centrist vision and an embrace of
globalization that many Mexicans feel has not served them.”

        NBC Nightly News
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(7/1, story 7, 2:05, Jackson) said López Obrador’s “style is much like
President Trump’s.” Known as AMLO, López Obrador is “big on promises with
few specifics. Anti-establishment, despite running for President here twice
before.” López Obrador will now “face a dismissive US Administration” and
“Trump’s controversial migrant policy separating families, putting pressure
on Mexico.” ABC World News Tonight
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(7/1, story 6, 0:20, Llamas) reported that the “run-up to election has been
particularly bloody.” The CBS
Weekend News
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(7/1, story 7, 0:35, Quijano) similarly reported that “it was a very bloody
campaign season. In the nine months leading up to today’s election, it is
estimated 145 candidates were killed.”
At Least 19 Killed In Afghanistan Attack Targeting Afghan Sikhs, Hindus.

The New York Times
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(7/1, Ghazi, Mashal) reports, “A suicide bomber struck a crowd of Afghan
Sikhs and Hindus arriving to meet with President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday as
he visited the eastern city of Jalalabad, an attack that killed at least 19
people and wounded 10 others, officials said.” The attack “occurred well
outside the compound where Mr. Ghani was holding meetings,” but it “claimed
the life of the only Sikh candidate running in elections in the country
this year, a further blow to Afghanistan’s once celebrated diversity, which
has been badly affected by decades of violence.” It “was the second deadly
attack in 24 hours in the province surrounding Jalalabad, known as
Nangarhar, where the Islamic State has a foothold and has repeatedly
claimed responsibility for urban suicide bombings.” The AP
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(7/1, Faiez) reports, “Narendr Singh, one of the wounded Sikh from Sunday’s
attack” said during a phone interview “from his hospital bed in Jalalabad
that the attack targeted their convoy.” The AP adds that “Sikhs and Hindus
have long suffered widespread discrimination in the conservative Muslim
country and been targeted by Islamic extremists.”

        The Washington Post
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(7/1, Salahuddin) says it was unclear whether the suicide bombing “was
aimed at Ghani’s visit.” Taliban insurgents and ISIS affiliates “are active
in the province,” but no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Suspicion fell on ISIS for the Saturday night for the beheading of “three
guards at a school in a district in Nangahar,” in part because the group
“had threatened weeks ago to target schools in the province.”
Trump Demands OPEC Pump More Oil.

Bloomberg News
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(7/1, Dipaola) reports that President Trump tweeted
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on Saturday that “the Saudi king had agreed to raise production to cut the
cost of oil for consumers.” The White House “later backpedaled from his
assertion,” but in an interview that aired Sunday on Fox News’ Sunday
Morning Futures
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Trump “compounded the pressure, demanding that OPEC stop what he called its
manipulation of the oil market and insisting the group pump more.”
Domestic Policy
Trump: Democrats “Will Never Win Another Election” With Calls To Abolish
ICE.

On ABC World News Tonight
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(7/1, story 4, 2:50, Llamas), Tara Palmeri said President Trump is
“attacking those calling to abolish and reform ICE” as “some Democrats
[are] lashing out at the agency.” The Washington Times
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(7/1, Boyer) reports Trump said Sunday that Democrats “will never win
another election” if they keep pushing to abolish ICE. In an interview with Fox
News’ Sunday Morning Futures
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Trump said, “I hope they keep thinking about it. Because they’re going to
get beaten so badly. You get rid of ICE, you’re going to have a country
that you’re going to be afraid to walk out of your house. I love that issue
if they’re going to actually do that.” He predicted that “if the Democrats
go left…getting rid of ICE, and having open borders…all it’s going to do is
leads to massive, massive crime.” The Times notes that calls to abolish ICE
have been endorsed “by leading Democrats,” such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren
and Kirsten Gillibrand.

        The New York Times
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(7/1, Cochrane) says Trump “spent part of his weekend at his New Jersey
golf resort tweeting his support for the agency and its involvement in
implementing his ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy.” His remarks are
similarly reported by the Daily Caller
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(7/1, Ross) and Townhall
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(7/1, Meads), among other sources, while the Washington Examiner
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(7/1, Chaitin) provides a list of “Democrats who have said they would like
to see the demise of the agency.” The Washington Times
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(7/1, Dinan, Boyer) says the calls for abolishing ICE are “becoming a
litmus test for Democratic candidates,” while Rachel Bade of Politico said
on CNN Inside Politics
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(7/1) that Democrats “have got to be really careful on this. If you’re
trying to pick up two dozen swing districts that are currently held by
Republicans, going out there and saying abolish ICE, abolish this federal
agency that enforces immigration law, that’s not going to help them pick
those up.”

        *Durbin: ICE “A Group Of Incompetents.” *The Daily Caller
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(7/1, Brest) reports Sen. Dick Durbin “hurled insults towards” ICE during
an immigration rally in Illinois Sunday morning. Said Durbin, “Look at ICE,
what a group of incompetents. At this point they’re focused more on
toddlers than terrorists. They want to, instead of deporting felons,
they’re deporting families that are being persecuted by criminal gangs.”

        *Poll: Majority Of Swing Voters Oppose Abolishing ICE. *Breitbart
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(7/1, Binder) reports that the “vast majority of swing voters” across the
US oppose calls to abolish ICE. A Harvard/Harris poll
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reveals that swing voters are “overwhelmingly opposed” to ending
immigration enforcement across the US. The poll found that “nearly 3-in-4
swing voters, about 73 percent, of swing voters said they do not want ICE
to be disbanded.”

        *Duckworth Suggests Other Options Aside From Abolishing ICE. *Sen.
Tammy Duckworth said on CNN’s State of the Union[image: Image removed by
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(7/1, Tapper), “I think if you abolish I.C.E. as an executive agency it
reflects the policies of the White House, of the President. ... Whatever
you replace it with is just going to still reflect what this President
wants to do.” She added, “I think there’s a lot of other things we could do
before we get to that point, first of which you’ve got someone in the White
House who has these policies which are horrendous and he still hasn’t
fixed.” Asked whether she would support Sen. Ted Cruz’s plan to keep
families together and increase the number of judges at the border, she
said, “I haven’t seen the details of his plan” and “I can tell you if we
have someone seeking asylum, they should be heard in a timely manner and we
should process that case, and in the meantime not be separating families.”

        *Waters: People Want Democrats To Be “More Confrontational” Against
Trump. *Breitbart
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(7/1, Key) reports that Rep. Maxine Waters told MSNBC AM Joy[image: Image
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Sunday that weekend protests over President Trump’s immigration policies
show that “the people” want Democrats to be “more forceful” and “more
confrontational” in their opposition. Waters said, “Well, let me just tell
you this, first of all, the people of this country, no matter Republican or
Democrat, do not like the idea that children have been separated.
Republicans are making a mistake thinking they can hold on to that
constituency, that so-called belongs to Donald Trump. On this issue,
Republicans and Democrats, Independents alike are opposed to what is going
on. And yes, people do want to see us being stronger and more forceful and
to confront them on these policies.”

        Fox News
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(7/1, Chamberlain) reports on its website that Waters said she was
“surprised” by criticism from Democratic leaders over her call for people
to “push back” against members of the Administration. Waters said[image:
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“One of the things I recognize, being an elected official, is in the final
analysis, leadership ... will do anything that they think is necessary to
protect their leadership and so what I have to do is not focus on them.”
Waters added, “I was blessed with courage. And I was blessed with the kind
of strength that does not allow me to be intimidated by the likes of Donald
Trump. ... Let him call me whatever he wants to call me. Let him say
whatever he wants to say. He will not stop me.” The Hill
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(7/1, Wise) also reports on Waters’ comments.

        *NYTimes A1: Democratic Party In Midst Of Internal Fight. *In a
front-page analysis, the New York Times
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(6/30, A1, Martin, Burns) said that “the pitched battle looming over the
Supreme Court, along with a jolt to the Democratic leadership at the ballot
box last Tuesday, is threatening to shatter the already fragile
architecture of the Democratic Party, as an activist rebellion on the left
and a lurch to the right in Washington propels the party toward a moment of
extraordinary conflict and forced reinvention.” The Times said the
“transformation” of the Democratic Party “could prove as consequential as
President Trump’s consolidation of power in his own party and the
conservative movement’s tightening grip on the federal government.” The
Times added that “this insurgency, which is both encouraging and alarming
Democratic officials, is not merely aimed at pushing the party farther left
ideologically. There is a deeper divide over how far to go in confronting
Mr. Trump and attempting to thwart his agenda.”

        *Rep. Moulton: Democrats In “Worst Position As A Party Since The
1920s.” *The Daily Caller
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(6/30) reported that Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton (D) said during a
Friday interview with CNN, “We have to look at ourselves in mirror and
realize that Trump may be terrible, but if we can’t beat him – and we are
literally in the worst position as a party since the 1920s, which is where
we are today – then we have to make reforms ourselves.” He added, “I think
a new generation of leaders will come from many different corners of the
party.”

        *Todd: Trump “Winning,” Democrats “Reeling.” *Breitbart
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(7/1, Key) reports that Chuck Todd, host of NBC’s Meet the Press[image:
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said Sunday that President Trump is “winning” and Democrats are “reeling.”
Todd said, “The announced retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony
Kennedy this week helped make one political reality clear: Despite his
overall unpopularity, President Trump is winning, and the Democrats right
now are reeling. ... How about the Republican Party? The president’s
approval rating among Republicans is around 90 percent. Elected Republicans
fear criticizing him, and the party has become a cult of personality: his.”
Todd continued, “Still, much of Mr. Trump’s success is superficial. While
he’s more popular among Republicans, the party overall is shrinking. His
trade war, North Korea, or the Mueller investigation all could turn against
him and, frankly, turn against him now like North Korea has. But if the
Democrats’ reaction to the Kennedy retirement proved anything, it’s that
the Democratic Party has not figured out how to succeed in the Trump era.”

        *NYTimes: Trump MS-13 Claim “An Exaggeration.” *The New York Times
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(7/1, Fortin) reports that in a series of tweets on Saturday, Trump
defended ICE, saying
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“I have watched ICE liberate towns from the grasp of MS-13 & clean out the
toughest of situations.” The Times says his claim “is an exaggeration.”
While ICE agents have arrested “hundreds of MS-13 members in recent
months,” Trump “did not present evidence to show that any particular towns
had been liberated from the gang,” and it is “unclear which towns Mr. Trump
was referring to, and neither the White House nor ICE immediately responded
to requests for clarification on Saturday.”

        *Woman Fleeing MS-13 In El Salvador Laments Separation From
Children. *Jessika L., a woman from El Salvador who is part of a
class-action lawsuit against ICE filed by the ACLU, writes in USA Today
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(7/1) that she fled her home and crossed into the US on March 13 “in search
of safety for myself and my sons, ages 4 and 10. We had fled for our lives
from El Salvador, where MS-13 gang members had threatened to kill us. We
turned ourselves in to the first Border Patrol officers we saw after
crossing into Texas,” where she was separated from her sons. She was
eventually reunited with them nearly three months later, but “still
think[s] about other mothers who are sick with worry about their own
children who were taken from them.”

        *Trump: First Lady Saw “The Danger” During Her Border Visits. *The New
York Post
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(7/1, Schwab) reports Trump said Sunday in an interview with Fox News that
First Lady Melania Trump witnessed a “very sad situation” during her two
visits to the US-Mexican border, but also “saw the danger.” Said Trump,
“She said it’s a very sad situation, very, very sad. She was really
impressed with border patrol, how professional they were. ... And she saw
the danger. She saw the – you look at it. It just looks like danger. In the
meantime we have to have strong border protection.”

        *Children Continue To Be Separated From Undocumented Parents In
Nation’s Interior. *The Washington Post
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(6/30) reports that while the Administration promises “to reunite families
separated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the US border, a
similar crisis continues unabated within the country’s interior, where
children are separated from their undocumented parents with little scrutiny
and increasing frequency.” ICE has, in recent months, “carried out the
three biggest workplace immigration raids of the past decade, including one
on June 5 at a nursery here in rural Ohio, where 114 gardeners, florists
and other workers were detained and put into court proceedings for
deportation.” Many had lived for several years in a nearby “trailer park of
74 homes known as Little Mexico, where now aid workers estimate that more
than 90 children are missing one parent and at least 20 are left with no
parent at all.”

        *Collins Concerned About Reunification Of Separated Families. *Sen.
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(7/1, Raddatz) about reunification of families separated at the border.
Collins replied, “I’m very concerned about it. ... I had a lengthy
discussion with the Secretary of Homeland Security and I really pressed her
on this issue because so far only 500 children, it’s my understanding, have
been reunited with their parents and some 2,000 remain in detention
centers.” She added, “I think that’s traumatizing to these children and
contrary to our American values.”

        *Number Of Migrants Caught Entering US Illegally Between Ports Of
Entry Dropped In June. *The Washington Examiner
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(7/1, Giaritelli) reports that the number of migrants caught entering the
country illegally from “between official ports of entry dropped in June
following months of record-high levels since President Trump took office a
year and a half ago, according to a report published Sunday evening.” Just
more than “34,000 people were arrested at the border by agents during the
month of June, down about 6,000 arrests from 40,000 in May, according to
information a government official gave the Associated Press.”

        *AP: Administration Still Dealing With Fallout From “Zero
Tolerance” Immigration Policy. *The AP
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(7/1, Long, Alonso-Zaldivar) reports that in recent Senate testimony, HHS
Secretary Azar “could barely conceal his discomfort” as a Democratic
senator asked “whether his agency had a role in designing the Trump
administration’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy that caused” migrant children to
be separated form their parents. Azar replied, “We deal with the children
once they’re given to us. ... So we don’t – we are not the experts on
immigration.” The AP says separating families “while sidelining the agency
responsible for caring for the children was only one example of a
communication breakdown in the federal government that left immigrant
children in limbo, parents in the dark about their whereabouts and enraged
Americans across the country.” The Administration “is still dealing with
the fallout: It’s still not clear how officials will implement the policy
or comply with a court order requiring that families be reunited within 30
days. Instead, the administration is hoping Congress will fix the mess.”
NYTimes Profiles Progressive Women Running For Office.

In an analysis, the New York Times
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(6/29, Zernike) reported that community organizer Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) primary defeat of NY14 Rep. Joseph Crowley (D) last
week “may be more one-off than wave, but her stunning win has raised hopes
for other female candidates.” Ocasio-Cortez’s win “may be more one-off than
wave,” because “the same night she won by 15 points, another woman of
color, Saira Rao, lost her energetic bid from the left in a primary against
Rep. Diane DeGette in Colorado. Three weeks earlier, so did another, Tanzie
Youngblood, in an open primary against a conservative Democrat in New
Jersey.” However, “whether other women become overnight stars like Ms.
Ocasio-Cortez – or Stacey Abrams, whose win in the Democratic primary for
governor in Georgia sparked similar excitement – depends on the dynamics of
each state or district.” The Times highlighted several other women running
for office this year.

        *Ocasio-Cortez: Democratic Socialism Just “Part Of What I Am.”
*The Washington
Times
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(7/1, Richardson) reports that during an interview on NBC’s Meet The
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(7/1, Todd) yesterday, Ocasio-Cortez “downplayed...her affiliation with
democratic socialism,” saying, “It’s part of what I am. It’s not all of
what I am. And I think that that’s a very important distinction. ... I’m an
educator, I’m an organizer. ... And I believe that what we’re really seeing
is just a movement for health care housing and education in the United
States.” Ocasio-Cortez added, “Democrats are a big tent party. ... I’m not
trying to impose an ideology on all several hundred members of Congress,
but I do think that once again it’s not selling an -ism or an ideology or a
label or a color. It’s about selling our values.”

        The New York Post
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(7/1, Moore) reports that Ocasio-Cortez “faulted Crowley, a 10-term
incumbent, for not being more closely connected to the community,” saying,
“I do think there was certainly a lack of presence, and that was a big part
of my win. ... There was a lack of listening on the ground. A lack of going
to the grocery store and saying ‘Hey, how you doing?’ That is an important
work of representation.” Ocasio-Cortez also “said the Democrats must have a
unified message that people can rally around, especially in the fight over
President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court.” She said, “This Supreme
Court seat is extremely serious. There is a federal investigation going on
with direct implications to the presidency and that presidency is talking
about nominating a Supreme Court pick that is going to essentially hear
this case out.”

        *Duckworth: Democrats Can’t Go Too Far Left And Win Nationwide. *The
Washington Examiner
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(7/1, Ayers) reports that Sen. Tammy Duckworth warned Sunday that the
Democratic Party should not move further to the left if they want to win
the presidency. Following the surprising defeat of Crowley by
Ocasio-Cortez, an “avowed Democratic socialist,” Duckworth told CNN’s State
Of The Union
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(7/1) Sunday that “she doesn’t foresee that being a winning strategy in the
Midwest.” Said Duckworth, “I think that you can’t win the White House
without the Midwest. ... And I don’t think you can go too far to the left
and still win the Midwest – coming from a Midwestern state.” Duckworth
urged dialogue with the “industrial Midwest,” and said, “You need to listen
to the people there in order to win an election nationwide.”

        The Washington Post
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(7/1, Scherer) says Democratic leaders are “scrambling to keep the
political outrage they’d counted on to fuel midterm election wins from
becoming a liability for the party.” Internal debates “have broken into
public view over maintaining civility and the usefulness of liberal slogans
like ‘abolish ICE,’ which some Republicans have embraced to argue falsely
that Democrats oppose immigration enforcement.” Meanwhile, “liberal
activists have begun to argue for more radical measures to counter the
president, who they assert presents an immediate threat to the republic.”

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(7/1) that Ocasio-Cortez’s primary win over Crowley “was a clear message to
the top of Democratic leadership in the House that Democrats want change in
their hierarchy and they want the establishment out, they want new blood at
the top and they are ready to see somebody else lead beyond Pelosi.” John
King said on CNN Inside Politics
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(7/1), “If there’s a giant blue wave and Democrats win the House by 20
seats, Nancy Pelosi will be okay. She still is the party’s premier
fundraiser. She still has a lot of loyalty in the caucus. However, if they
just squeak by and a whole bunch of candidates promised in their TV ads I
won’t vote for her, she’s going to have to negotiate either a temporary
speakership...or she may have to go.”
Trump Says He Wants To Stay “Uninvolved” In Russia Probe, “At Least For
Now.”

President Trump was asked in an interview that aired on Fox News Sunday
Morning Futures
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(7/1, Bartiromo) about Russia investigation. Trump said, “So, I have this
country running like a top, Mike Pompeo is doing great.” He said, “We have
a great group of people” and “the one thing I want to stay uninvolved in at
least for now I may get involved but I have been told by so many people
don’t get involved.” He said, “There’s no collusion with me ...honestly it
is a disgrace but I purposely said I’m not getting involved,” and “you
know, they found nothing.” He said, “By the way, this is the most
transparent thing ever done with the White House... I think I gave them a
million 400,000 documents I told them don’t even read them; there’s no
Russia mentioned or anything like that.”

        *Judge Rules Rosenstein’s Order Gives Mueller Wide Investigative
Latitude. *The Washington Times
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(7/1, Scarborough) reports that understanding the reason Special Counsel
Robert Mueller has expanded his investigation beyond the 2016 presidential
race “may require perusing a federal judge’s opinion on June 26 in the Paul
Manafort case.” District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III “dissected Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s May 2017 appointment order to Mr.
Mueller,” and “concluded that the prosecutor is empowered to look at
virtually any Russian contact.” According to Ellis, Rosenstein’s guidelines
“state that Mr. Mueller is to investigate any links between the Russian
government and Trump campaign associates,” which means “indirect links” or
“potential links,” giving Mueller “wide latitude when deciding whether to
target a Trump person.”
Trump: Tax Reform Package Has Been Successful.

Asked on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures[image: Image removed by sender.
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(7/1, Bartiromo) if he thought his historic tax reform package was working,
President Trump said, “Well, I think there’s a double effect; the tax cuts
have been incredible and reform, don’t forget, but tax cuts have been
incredible.” He said, “I actually think maybe at least initially speaking
because it’s been earlier took place quicker, the regulation rollback has
been the biggest ever in the history of our country.” He continued, “No
president even during full terms has cut back anywhere near what I have
done and we have more to do.” Trump later added, “I think ultimately the
tax cuts, as they kick in and they are kicking in – you see the kind of
hundreds of billions of dollars brought back into the country already; I
think ultimately that’s going to be something really special and you’re
seeing the result right now.”

        *NYTimes Editorial: Those Who Benefited Least From Tax Cuts Will
Pay To Mitigate Damage. *The New York Times
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(7/1) says in an editorial that Federal Reserve forecasters’ “median
prediction is that the federal funds rate is headed to 3.4 percent by the
end of 2020 from the current 1.9 percent,” meaning consumers will be
“paying more to get a mortgage, a new-car loan or to carry a balance on
your credit card. How much more? Possibly enough to absorb whatever extra
income you might be enjoying from lower tax rates or higher wages.” The
Fed’s job of keeping “inflation in check by raising rates,” has been “made
more urgent by the Republicans’ $1.5 trillion tax giveaway to the wealthy
and corporations.” Now, “Trump supporters who benefited the least from the
Republican tax cut...will now have to pay the bulk of the bill to mitigate
the damage it caused to the economy.”
WPost: States Moving To Fill Gaps Washington Creating In ACA.

The Washington Post
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(7/1, Goldstein) reports on “a nascent movement with states stepping out on
their own to counteract Washington’s efforts to erode the ACA.” A New
Jersey law requiring “most residents to carry insurance” and a similar
measure in Washington, DC, “are timed to begin in January, when a federal
penalty is scheduled to disappear for Americans who violate the mandate
built into the health-care law.” Moreover, “several states are erecting
barriers against rules the Trump administration is writing to promote
short-term health plans that are comparatively inexpensive because they
lack benefits and consumer protections guaranteed by the ACA,” and some
states “are trying to slow insurance rate increases through methods that
Congress considered but did not pass.” The Post says “the moves mean the
nation is starting to revert to the insurance landscape of a decade ago – a
hodgepodge that created the political pressures that culminated in the
sweeping 2010 law.”
Portland Police Declare Riot, Revoke Permit As Antifa Disrupts Protest.

Breitbart
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(7/1, Huston) reports that Portland, Oregon police “revoked a permit for a
pro-America march and declared the scene a riot when counter-protesters
erupted in violence on Saturday.” The permit had been “secured by the
Patriot Prayer group that had planned a march entitled the ‘Freedom and
Courage’ rally. But a large number of members of a local violent,
black-clad Antifa group also gathered along the march route and began a
series of confrontations with the marchers.” According to The Oregonian,
the Antifa group “initiated hostilities by throwing eggs, bottles, and
other items at the Patriot group, the paper noted.” ABC World News
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(7/1, story 9, 0:20, Llamas) reported that according to police, at least
four people were hurt “when right-wing demonstrators and counter-protesters
broke out in brawls,” and “at least nine people [are] facing charges.” The CBS
Weekend News
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(7/1, story 9, 0:20, Quijano) reported that officials “say they seized
knives, clubs, and chemical sprays.”
Seattle Bans Plastic Straws, Utensils In Restaurants.

NBC Nightly News
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(7/1, story 8, 2:30, Jackson) reported that Seattle on Sunday joined “the
growing list of cities banning plastic straws and plastic forks and knives
in local restaurants. They’re almost never recycled, meaning they end up in
landfills, creating more of a pollution problem.” NBC (Fryer) added that
“28 cities around the country that have banned or limited plastic straws or
are considering it. California and Hawaii are even exploring statewide
policies.”
Cancer Research
DNA-Level Biomarker May Help Predict Survival In Glioma Patients.

The Cancer Network
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(6/29, Schieszer) reported that research suggests “a DNA-level biomarker
may be helpful in predicting survival outcomes in patients with high-risk,
low-grade gliomas.” Investigators found that “patients with MGMT methylated
tumors were more than twice as likely to survive after combination
treatment with temozolomide and radiotherapy (RT) than patients with
unmethylated tumors.” The findings
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were published in JAMA Oncology.
Enzalutamide Found To Postpone Metastasis For Some Prostate Cancer Patients.

Cancer Therapy Advisor
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(6/29, Hernandez) reported that research indicated “the median
metastasis-free survival time for patients with non-metastatic
castration-resistant prostate cancer and rising prostate-specific antigen
(PSA) levels treated with enzalutamide was nearly double that of the median
metastasis-free survival time for patients in the same group treated with
placebo (36.6. months vs 14.7 months, respectively, P = .001).” The findings
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were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Editorials/Op-Eds
New York Times.

*“Your Credit Card Will Pay For The Next Recession.”* The New York Times
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(7/1) says in an editorial that Federal Reserve forecasters’ “median
prediction is that the federal funds rate is headed to 3.4 percent by the
end of 2020 from the current 1.9 percent,” meaning consumers will be
“paying more to get a mortgage, a new-car loan or to carry a balance on
your credit card. How much more? Possibly enough to absorb whatever extra
income you might be enjoying from lower tax rates or higher wages.” The
Fed’s job of keeping “inflation in check by raising rates,” has been “made
more urgent by the Republicans’ $1.5 trillion tax giveaway to the wealthy
and corporations.” Now, “Trump supporters who benefited the least from the
Republican tax cut...will now have to pay the bulk of the bill to mitigate
the damage it caused to the economy.”

        *“The Disney-Fox Deal Sails Through, A Bit Too Easily.” *In an
editorial, the New York Times
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(7/1) questions the speed with which the Justice Department approved the
Disney-Fox deal, saying it took “about half the time that regulators
usually need to evaluate deals of this size.” Noting that the Department
“spent nearly two years investigating AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner and
bringing an ultimately unsuccessful lawsuit against the deal,” the Times
says that while the Administration “has denied that politics plays a role
in its antitrust enforcement decisions,” it is “hard not to be skeptical of
the possible motivations behind the Justice Department’s approach to these
deals.”

        *Professors Oppose Stricter Work Requirements For SNAP. *In an
op-ed for the New York Times
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(7/1), Sarah Bowen, Sinikka Elliott And Annie Hardison-Moody, professors
who have conducted a study on child hunger, write that the nation’s
policies “have long reflected, imperfectly, the moral imperative that
children deserve adequate food. Until now.” Although SNAP already includes
work requirements for able-bodied adults without children, the House-passed
farm bill “an even harsher policy and extends it to parents of school-age
children. It would require that most adults provide monthly proof that they
are working or enrolled in at least 20 hours of work force training per
week in order to receive support” or risk being locked out of the program
for three years. They note that the Senate version does not include the
requirement “that will leave more kids hungry,” and argue that while
President Trump “offered his support,” for stricter work requirements, the
program “should not be restricted” but “expanded, so that fewer families —
and especially kids — are hungry.”
Washington Post.

*“This Piece Of Trump’s Federal Shake-Up Has Been A Long Time Coming. Get
It Right.”* In an editorial, the Washington Post
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(7/1) says the Administration’s proposal to transfer responsibility for
background investigations for security clearances from the OPM to the
Defense Department is change that is “a long time coming.” The Post cites
criticism of OPM’s “slow processing of background checks” as well as
“security concerns” stemming from the agency’s handling of the
investigations and says the “transfer of security-clearance
responsibilities makes sense.” However, the Post says Defense Department
must “address these concerns and ensure that the background-check process
is efficient, secure and accurate going forward.”

        *“The Malaria Fight Stalls As Children Die By The Hundreds Of
Thousands.” *A Washington Post
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(7/1) editorial says that while the number of malaria cases and deaths have
declined steadily for a decade and a half as “global public-health
officials have been at war” with the disease, the “battle shows signs of
stalling.” In 2016, “the number of malaria cases went up to 215 million,
from 210 million the year before.” The Post says that the fight against
malaria will be won “by action on many fronts. A stall, after so much
promise, would be terrible and costly.”

        *“What Are The Park Police Hiding?” *A Washington Post
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(7/1) criticizes the “epic stonewalling campaign” by US Park Police
concerning Park Police officers’ fatal shooting of Bijan Ghaisar, “a young
accountant in Northern Virginia who appeared to pose no threat to them or
anyone else.” The Post says “it has been 225 days – and counting” and the
Park Police response “has been characterized by brazen arrogance and
in-your-face unaccountability on a grand scale.” The Post concludes that
“after so many months of official nonresponsiveness, there is one
overarching question the public is entitled to ask: What are the police
trying to hide?”

        *New Orleans Charter Schools Cited As Example For Nation. *In an
op-ed for the Washington Post
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(7/1), Emily Langhorne, an education policy analyst at the Progressive
Policy Institute, writes that in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which
largely wiped out New Orleans’ public schools, the city’s school system
“was essentially rebuilt from the ground up as a laboratory for charter
schools — not a school district with a few charters sprinkled among
traditional institutions, but an almost wholly charter-filled system run by
the state of Louisiana.” The effort “proved successful; the New Orleans
school district has improved faster than any other district in the nation
over the past decade.” Langhorne argues that as charter schools spread
throughout the country, “their organization into New Orleans-style
charter-only school districts under local control may be the next step in
the continuing evolution of American education.”

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