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Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
President Trump ‘probably does’ have the power to pardon himself: Giuliani  —  President Trump's lead attorney said the president “probably does” have the power to pardon himself.  —  Rudy Giuliani was discussing with ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” …
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David Kris / Lawfare:
The Trump Legal Team's Remarkable Letter to Mueller  —  The New York Times has published two long letters that the president's lawyers sent to Special Counsel Robert Mueller in January 2018 and June 2017.  These letters argue, essentially, that the president can't obstruct justice.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Trump's legal memo to Robert Mueller is a recipe for tyranny  —  A clear and present danger to the rule of law  —  Essentially all presidents sooner or later end up commissioning lawyers to put forward an expansive view of presidential power, but those lawyers take pains to argue …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Trump lawyers say he ‘dictated’ statement on Trump Tower meeting, contradicting past denials
CBS News:
CBS News Battleground Tracker: The House is a toss-up  —  Dems 219- Reps 216 in tight contest for control  —  In the race for Congress, most polls report one national percentage for Democrats and Republicans.  But that's not very helpful - because this is a race for seats.  435 of them, in fact.
Mark Osborne / ABC News:
FBI agent accidentally shoots bar patron when gun falls out of holster while dancing  —  An FBI agent got himself into an embarrassing situation on Saturday when his service weapon fell out of its holster while dancing at a Denver club and he accidentally shot a fellow patron while retrieving it.
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Oscar Contreras / TheDenverChannel.com:
Denver Police investigating accidental shooting from gun of an off-duty FBI agent  —  DENVER - Police are investigating an accidental shooting that sent a man to a hospital early Saturday morning.  —  The apparent, accidental shooting happened just before 12:45 a.m. at the Mile High Spirits club …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Obama — Just Too Good for Us  —  WASHINGTON — It was a moment of peak Spock.  —  Hours after the globe-rattling election of a man whom Barack Obama has total disdain for, a toon who would take a chain saw to the former president's legacy on policy and decency, Obama sent a message …
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Ben Rhodes / The Atlantic:
Inside the White House During the Syrian ‘Red Line’ Crisis  —  In the course of a presidency, a U.S. president says millions of words in public.  You never know which of them end up cementing a certain impression.  For Barack Obama, one of those phrases would be “red line.”
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Roger Kimball / American Greatness:   A Clueless “Final Year”
Chris Tomlinson / Breitbart:
Trump's Right Hand Man in Europe Rick Grenell Wants To ‘Empower’ European Anti-Establishment Conservatives  —  BERLIN, Germany: Trumpian U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell has expressed great excitement over the wave of anti-establishment conservatism in Europe, saying he wants to “empower” leaders of the movement.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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Oliver JJ Lane / Breitbart:   Exclusive: Ambassador Grenell Gives Stark Warning Over ‘Woeful’ Readiness of NATO Allies
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's 500-day coup of the GOP, conservatism  —  Donald Trump has been President Trump for 500 days as of noon today.  Jonathan Swan writes that everything has changed, and nothing has changed.  —  Be smart: In 500 days, Trump's hijacking of the formerly conservative GOP is complete — an astonishing accomplishment.
CBS News:
Bill Clinton and James Patterson co-author a political beach read  —  A political thriller has to convincingly blend both fact and fiction, which is just what a certain debut novelist with plenty of White House experience says he has to offer.  He and his writing partner are talking with Mo Rocca:
Discussion: Townhall, AOL and Washington Times
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Luis Sanchez / The Hill:   Bill Clinton: I couldn't be elected now because I don't like embarrassing people
Jacqueline Klimas / Politico:
Giuliani: Trump's team ‘leaning toward’ recommending he not talk with Mueller  —  The president's legal team is “leaning toward not” recommending he participate in an interview with the team investigating Russian interference in the 2016 elections, Rudy Giuliani, a member of the team, said Sunday.
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John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump has spent more visiting Mar-a-Lago than Mueller has on Russia probe
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Giuliani threatens legal battle with Mueller over subpoena
Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal:
U.S., China End Latest Trade Talks Without Settlement  —  China warns if U.S. introduces threatened tariffs, any results from the negotiations won't go into effect  —  BEIJING—U.S. and Chinese negotiators wrapped up their latest round of trade talks without a settlement …
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Washington Post:
Trump thinks he's saving trade. The rest of the world thinks he's blowing it up.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Lauren Meier / Axios:
Under cloud of tariffs, a U.S. trade delegation arrives in Beijing
Discussion: xinhuanet.com and Associated Press
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Jon Tester, a Democrat in Deep-Red Montana, Isn't Sweating Trump's Threats  —  BIG SANDY, Mont. — Under a nearly cloudless sky on the sun-speckled northern prairie last Tuesday, Jon Tester, this state's senior senator, had his hands deep inside a 25-year-old grain auger.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Lisa Senecal / The Daily Beast:
The NDA Protected Our Predator.  I'm Breaking My Silence, Because Women Deserve Better. … I received this message from a woman in my small town of Stowe, Vermont.  We had never met, but I knew instantly what her message meant: I was not the predator's only survivor.
NBC News:
Full Giuliani: ‘Could lead to impeachment’ if president stopped investigation of himself  — June 2, 2018 Full Trudeau: Canada and U.S. most successful alliance ‘in the history of the modern world’  — June 1, 2018 Meet the Midterms: Frontrunners emerge as California primary day nears
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Josh Smith / Reuters:
Syria's Assad says will visit North Korea, news agency reports  —  SEOUL (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he plans to visit North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, North Korean state media reported on Sunday, potentially the first meeting between Kim and another head of state in Pyongyang.
Discussion: Axios, Politico and Washington Post
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Mattis warns of bumpy road to US, North Korea nuclear summit
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Week
Mark Osborne / ABC News:
Officer fired after intentionally hitting fleeing suspect with his police car  —  The Athens-Clarke County Police Department has fired one of its officers after an investigation showed he intentionally ran down and hit a fleeing suspect with his police cruiser.
 
 
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Samantha Bee will address vulgar comment about Ivanka Trump on her show
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Seth Masket / Vox:
We need to talk about the woke droid
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Fox News:
ISIS militants target family of 12 in northern Iraq attack
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Want Michael Lewis's Next Book? You'll Have to Listen to It
Cora Engelbrecht / New York Times:
Fewer Immigrants Are Reporting Domestic Abuse. Police Blame Fear of Deportation.
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Associated Press:
US singled out by G7 allies over steel and aluminum tariffs
Discussion: Politico and Axios
Politico:
GOP senators need an agenda — so they're doing a poll
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Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
New Italian govt vows to create jobs, deport migrants
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Rick Klein / ABC News:
ANALYSIS: California's ‘jungle primary’ has unintended consequences for Democrats
Discussion: Politico
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Mike Shoro / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump slams ‘the resistance’ in weekly address
Discussion: Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Steve Bannon's clever idea to save the GOP from brutal midterms
Discussion: Hullabaloo