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1:15 PM ET, June 7, 2016

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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump self-destructive rambling baffles GOP strategists  —  How did the controversy begin over Donald Trump's attacks on the judge in the Trump University lawsuit?  It began when Donald Trump couldn't stop talking about the Trump University lawsuit.  —  In the normal course of events …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
It's time for GOP leaders to choose sides on Donald Trump  —  This post has been updated.  —  Donald Trump has been the Republican presidential nominee for five weeks as of Tuesday.  Those 35 days have been filled with self-inflicted wounds — the latest being Trump's insistence that a judge …
Joseph Murray / Breitbart:
Donald Trump Is Correct To Hit ‘La Raza’ Judge For Latino Identity Politics  —  “This is one of the worst mistakes Trump has made.  I think it's inexcusable.”  —  Those words were spoken by Newt Gingrich - a man believed to be on Donald Trump's Vice Presidential shortlist - during an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Dick Morris Is in Talks to Join the Trump Campaign  —  The controversial former Clinton adviser could play a key roll in Trump's anti-Hillary strategy.  —  Before Donald Trump's campaign was derailed by his racist attacks on a federal judge, the GOP nominee was surprisingly disciplined in his attacks on Hillary Clinton.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mitch McConnell: This Election Is About Choosing The Lesser Of Two Evils  —  “This is a choice that many Americans are not happy with.”  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Asked on Monday if the general election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was a “lesser of two evils election,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell answered yes.
Bridget Bowman / Roll Call:
Grassley: Senate Can Be a Check on Trump's Judges  —  Senate Judiciary chairman says he's not concerned who would be nominated  —  Reid: McConnell ‘Poster Boy’ for GOP ‘Spinelessness’ Over Trump GOP Senators Criticize Trump's Comments on Judge Sanders' Long-Shot Delegate Hunt
Bloomberg:
Trump Orders Surrogates to Intensify Criticism of Judge and Journalists
Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:
The RNC Approached Two Hispanic Operatives Who Weren't Interested Because Of Trump
Discussion: alan.com and The Week
CNBC:
Paul Ryan: Trump's judge remarks ‘textbook definition of a racist comment’
Discussion: National Review, AOL and Reuters
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:   Trump Spox Suggests Trump's Sister Could Be ‘Biased’ As A Female Judge
Marina Fang / The Huffington Post:
Trump Campaign: Female Judges Could Be Biased, Too
New York Times:
Democrats Jump on Allies of Donald Trump in Judge Dispute
Pat Buchanan / Townhall.com:
The Donald & The La Raza Judge
Discussion: Daily Wire
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Rubio Says He Won't Speak on Trump's Behalf at GOP Convention
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Trump train derails on Capitol Hill
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New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Has Clinched Democratic Nomination, Survey Reports  —  Hillary Clinton has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for president, The Associated Press reported Monday night.  —  Mrs. Clinton had been expected to clinch the nomination on Tuesday after polls closed in New Jersey.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Bernie Sanders Has Some Strange Ideas About Why He Deserves the Nomination  —  He was told there would be no math.  —  The season-finale episode of Saturday Night Live imagines a bar-stool conversation between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in which the two candidates bond …
John Judis / Talking Points Memo:   Bernie Sanders should drop out and endorse Hillary Clinton. Period.
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Sanders plans to ‘assess’ presidential bid at home in Vermont after Tuesday contests
Discussion: Truth Revolt, Political Wire and AOL
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Paul Ryan Calls Donald Trump's Attack on Judge ‘Racist,’ but Backs Him Still  —  WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Tuesday called Donald J. Trump's criticism of a Hispanic-American judge “the textbook definition of a racist comment” and said he “regrets” the remark.
Discussion: Political Wire
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Donovan Slack / USA Today:   Paul Ryan starts unveiling plan for ‘better GOP’
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
FBI asks to make new secret filing in Clinton email case  —  The FBI has asked a federal judge for permission to file a second secret declaration detailing its probe into Hillary Clinton  —  's private email server.  —  In the request, which came as part of a Freedom of Information Act …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
State Dept. would need 75 years to compile Clinton emails
Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com and CNN
Associated Press:
Florida AG asked Trump for donation before nixing fraud case  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida's attorney general personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump around the same time her office deliberated joining an investigation of alleged fraud at Trump University and its affiliates
Wlady Pleszczynski / The American Spectator:
Trump Is Right: The Shame of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell  —  The GOP Establishment is in full flight.  —  No Abraham Lincolns here.  —  In a shameful haste to embrace identity politics, the latter the political descendant of slavery and segregation, Speaker Paul Ryan …
CNN:
Last known surviving 9/11 search and rescue dog laid to rest  —  (CNN)When it was time to say goodbye, she was given a hero's farewell.  —  Firefighters and rescue workers lined the sidewalk as her body, draped in an American flag, was carried out.  Tears streaked down some faces.
Discussion: NPR, The Week and Scared Monkeys
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Associated Press:
Last Known Living 9/11 Search Dog Dies in Texas at Age 16
Joey Nolfi / EW.com:
Meryl Streep dons a fat suit and orangeface as Donald Trump  —  Further proving there's no role she can't tackle, acting legend Meryl Streep has gone from complete Margaret Thatcher to full Donald Trump, sporting messy hair, a low-hanging red tie, a fat suit, and comically-applied self-tanner …
Jason Reed / National Review:
Inside the #NeverTrump Candidacy that Almost Was  —  Anti-Trump conservatives failed to recruit David French into the presidential campaign.  What will they do now?  —  The latest would-be presidential candidate spent just under a week in the spotlight — long enough to confound official Washington …
Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump: I'm The One Who ‘Really Broke The Glass Ceiling’ In My Industry  —  Donald Trump patted himself on the back for the help he had provided to his female employees during a Monday night appearance on Fox News' “O'Reilly Factor,” calling himself “the one that really broke the glass ceiling.”
 
 
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Associated Press:
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Donald Trump Says He Doesn't Believe in “American Exceptionalism”
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Sasse making GOP enemies with anti-Trump crusade
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
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