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Giuliani: Trump Could Have Shot Comey And Still Couldn't Be Indicted For It — Congress would have to impeach Trump first before any criminal prosecution could move forward, the president's lawyer says. — WASHINGTON Candidate Donald Trump bragged that he could shoot someone …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Cops are called when a senator tries to see kids taken from their immigrant parents — THE BIG IDEA: As the sun set Sunday night, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) went to a shuttered Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, that has been converted into a detention center for immigrant children who have been separated from their parents.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump lawyers reveal previously unknown evidence in Michael Flynn case — A newly-leaked January 29 memo from President Trump's first legal team to special counsel Robert Mueller suggests the president believed fired national security adviser Michael Flynn was no longer under investigation …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Four things to watch as Washington begins the summer
Playbook: Four things to watch as Washington begins the summer
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New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
Harry Litman / New York Times:
President Trump Thinks He Is a King
President Trump Thinks He Is a King
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Washington Post, Daily Wire, The Week, Above the Law, Washington Press, Media Matters for America and Raw Story
CNN:
Trump's phone call with Macron described as ‘terrible’ — Washington (CNN)A call about trade and migration between US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron soured last week after Macron candidly criticized Trump's policies, two sources familiar with the call told CNN.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story and Political Wire
Ben White / Politico:
Cohn kept the jobs numbers for Trump — COHN KEPT THE JOBS NUMBERS FROM TRUMP — MM hears that before he left the White House, former National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn would withhold jobs report data from President Trump until shortly before their release because he was worried …
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Townhall, Financial Times, New York Times and CNBC
Axios:
What we're watching: Bill Clinton confronted on #MeToo, Monica Lewinsky — Reflecting on his presidency in light of the #MeToo movement, former president Bill Clinton told NBC News' “Today” that he believes he did “the right thing” during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, adding …
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Bill Clinton: I wouldn't have done anything differently in Lewinsky scandal even in #MeToo era — Clinton stuck by his decision to fight his impeachment rather than resign. “I think I did the right thing. I defended the Constitution,” he said. — Former President Bill Clinton says that …
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Townhall, Joe.My.God., Mediaite and TheBlaze
Reuters:
North Korea's top three military officials replaced, U.S. official says — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea's top three military officials have been removed from their posts, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday, as U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un prepare to meet on June 12 in Singapore.
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New York Times:
Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends — The company formed data-sharing partnerships with Apple, Samsung and dozens of other device makers, raising new concerns about its privacy protections. — As Facebook sought to become the world's dominant social media service …
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Yahoo! News:
Germany asks Trump envoy to clarify ‘empowering’ right call — Germany on Monday said it had asked the new US ambassador in Berlin, outspoken Trump loyalist Richard Grenell, to clarify his reported comments on website Breitbart that he wants to “empower” European conservatives.
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Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
New US ambassador to Germany under fire for rightwing support — Politicians accuse Richard Grenell of breach of protocol after interview in Breitbart — German politicians have criticised Donald Trump's new ambassador to Germany after he said he wanted to “empower” anti-establishment rightwing forces throughout Europe.
Washington Post:
A historic exodus is leaving Venezuela without teachers, doctors and electricians — An unruly 9-year-old bolted from his classroom, prompting a volunteer teacher to chase him down the hall. He would normally be hauled straight to Romina Sciaca's office. But the guidance counselor was gone …
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Instapundit
Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Trump's mind-control superpowers — In our lifetime, no president has matched Donald Trump's ability to summon the power of the pulpit, friendly media, and the tweet-by-tweet power of repetition and persuasion to move minds en masse. — The big picture: You see this in the silence of Republican critics …
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Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
Devin Nunes warns Google may need to testify if anti-GOP search results keep showing up
Devin Nunes warns Google may need to testify if anti-GOP search results keep showing up
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Splinter
Patti Davis / Washington Post:
Mourning America: What my father, Ronald Reagan, would say today — Patti Davis is an author and the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. — My father used to talk about a recurring dream he had in which he was walking into a beautiful white building with grand columns, knowing that it was his new home.
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Talking Points Memo, HuffPost and The Week
Courier-Journal:
Crowd cheers when valedictorian quotes Trump. Then reveals it was Obama — Ben Bowling graduation speech Courtesy of Ben Bowling — Bell County high school student and valedictorian Ben Bowling wanted to share some words of wisdom with his graduating class, but there was a twist that no one saw coming.
Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
First lady Melania Trump will not join President Trump on G7, Singapore summits — First lady Melania Trump will not be joining President Donald Trump on his upcoming trips to the G7 summit in Quebec and the highly anticipated summit between the United States and North Korea in Singapore, her spokeswoman told ABC News.
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Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Scandal on the Other Foot — Consider the following alternate reality. — Imagine that it is now summer 2024. A 78-year-old lame-duck President Trump is winding down his second term, basking in positive polls. His dutiful vice president in waiting, Mike Pence, is at last getting his chance to run for president.
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RealClearPolitics
Jane Ross / Reuters:
California city fights poverty with guaranteed income — STOCKTON, Calif. (Reuters) - Michael Tubbs, the 27-year-old mayor of Stockton, California, has a radical plan to combat poverty in his cash-strapped city: a “no strings” guaranteed basic income of $500 a month for its residents.
Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
Business economists worry about possible recession in 2020 — WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of top business economists believes the major tax cuts President Donald Trump pushed through Congress will give a significant boost to economic growth this year and next year.
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Axios
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
The president as the persecuted: Donald Trump's strategy of self-victimization — Unfair is one of his favorite words, and he has used it in 69 tweets. He calls the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election a rigged witch hunt.
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sports Site ‘The Athletic’ Expands Aggressively, Betting on Subscriptions — Premium salaries lure writers; skeptics caution business model is risky — Stephen Curry, the star point guard for the Golden State Warriors, looked puzzled at a news conference last fall when a journalist introduced himself …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Michael Cohen's secret dream — On election night 2016, shortly after Donald Trump's team realized he would win the presidency, Michael Cohen told a handful of people on the 14th floor of Trump Tower about his own dreams for the future — to be mayor of New York.
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Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
CNN:
CNN obtains report showing fund for coal miners with black lung is in trouble — CNN obtains report showing fund for sick coal miners is in trouble — (CNN)A US government fund that helps coal miners sickened with black lung disease is beset by billions of dollars in debt, according to a government watchdog report obtained by CNN.
Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
'It was my job, and I didn't find him': Stoneman Douglas resource officer remains haunted by massacre — BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — Scot Peterson had spent much of the past three months in hiding, but now somebody was walking onto his porch and toward the front door. A motion detector activated an alarm inside his duplex.
Amanda Erickson / Washington Post:
The United Nations says Trump is making life harder for the poor — The United Nations has never been shy about attacking the United States. — In recent years, U.N. officials accused the Obama administration of failing to address police brutality and sexual assault in the military.