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8:25 AM ET, June 7, 2018

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Politico:
Another mess for Pruitt: Overstaying his White House welcome at lunch  —  Too many visits for lunch at the Mess earned a rebuke from the White House.  —  EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt loves eating at the White House mess, an exclusive U.S. Navy-run restaurant open only to White House officials, Cabinet members and other dignitaries.
Discussion: The Week
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CNN:
Exclusive: Trump invokes War of 1812 in testy call with Trudeau over tariffs  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a testy phone call on May 25 over new tariffs imposed by the Trump administration targeting steel and aluminum imports coming from Canada …
Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Pruitt Aide Resigns Amid Scandals  —  A top aide to Scott Pruitt, Millan Hupp, resigned from the Environmental Protection Agency, according to a source briefed on the matter and correspondence reviewed by The Atlantic.  Her last day will be Friday.  —  Hupp, who worked as the director …
Washington Post:
Joseph Hagin, point person on Korea summit, plans to leave White House soon  —  White House deputy chief of staff Joseph Hagin, President Trump's point person arranging the North Korean nuclear summit, is preparing to leave his West Wing post soon, according to four people familiar with White House planning.
Discussion: Breitbart
Mike Sielski / Philly.com:
Eagles' Pederson on cancelled White House visit: 'I'm not discussing, it's over'  —  “Is this all about the national anthem thing?”  —  “Probably a lot of people came for it, and now they're slumming.”  —  What we came for, of course, was the White House Visit That Wasn't.
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Inside the House GOP's big immigration meeting
Discussion: Mediaite and The Week
Ken Klippenstein / TYT Network:
You'll Never Believe What Israel Gave to Donald Trump
Discussion: Splinter, Raw Story and CBS News
Daniel Victor / New York Times:
No, Mr. Trump, Canada Did Not Burn Down the White House in the War of 1812
Discussion: Bloomberg, CNN and Washington Post
Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg:
France Warns Trump It Won't Sign a G-7 Statement
Discussion: Reuters and Political Wire
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is requesting that witnesses turn in their personal phones to inspect their encrypted messaging programs  — Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is asking witnesses to turn in their phones in order to access encrypted messaging applications, sources tell CNBC.
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Aris Folley / The Hill:
Former US attorney says Manafort will likely go to prison Friday  —  Former U.S. attorney Harry Litman said he expects President Trump  —  's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort  —  , to be sent to federal prison by the end of the week.  —  “Prosecutors hate this, judges hate this …
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
Reuters:   Lawyer to ex-Trump campaign aide Manafort taps ethics adviser
Paul Rosenzweig / Lawfare:
The Manafort Tampering Allegations
Discussion: Hot Air and Daily Kos
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:   The Astonishing Tale of the Man Mueller Calls ‘Person A’
Mark Murray / NBC News:
Poll: Economic satisfaction under Trump isn't helping his party's 2018 chances  —  By a whopping 25-point margin, voters say they're more likely to back a congressional candidate who promises to serve as a check on President Donald Trump, according to a new national poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.
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John Harwood / CNBC:
More Americans are crediting Trump with the stronger economy, but that isn't helping the GOP with voters: NBC/WSJ poll  — A new poll found that seven in 10 voters say the economy has improved under the Trump administration.  — But the survey found that respondents favored Democrats …
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:   Democrats' Interest in Midterm Elections Running Ahead of Republicans'
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Trump and Bolton spurn top-level North Korea planning
Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump and Kim could meet for second day in Singapore
Discussion: Foreign Policy and The Hill
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Democrats Childishly Resist Trump's North Korea Efforts
Discussion: New Republic
Tracy Wilkinson / Los Angeles Times:   With rival camps in his inner circle, Trump's ideas on North Korea have evolved
Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:
Lou Dobbs and Rep. Gaetz Trash ‘Disaster’ Paul Ryan: ‘Get the Hell Out of the Office’  —  If you thought SpyGate on Fox News primetime was lit, take a gander over at what's happening on Fox Business Network, where host Lou Dobbs is truly wilding on a nightly basis.
Discussion: MSNBC and CNBC
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
GOP congressman blasts Trump's spy conspiracy  —  Rep. Tom Rooney, a top Republican lawmaker on the House Intelligence Committee, is ripping President Donald Trump's unsupported claim that the FBI inserted a spy inside his campaign.  —  “What is the point of saying that there was a spy in the campaign when there was none?”
CNN:
From Reddit to Trump: How the President latched onto a conspiracy theory
Discussion: Vox and ThinkProgress
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Ryan undercuts Trump on Russia at fraught moment
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
In private FEMA remarks, Trump's focus strays from hurricanes  —  The meeting was supposed to be about hurricane preparedness, as disaster officials gathered at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters days after the start of the 2018 season.  —  But President Trump had a lot else on his mind …
NBC News:
Stormy Daniels suit: My old lawyer was a ‘puppet’ for Trump, Cohen  —  Stormy Daniels says in a new lawsuit that her former attorney betrayed her and became a “puppet” for President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer while still representing her.  —  The filing Wednesday alleges …
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BuzzFeed:
Ivanka Trump Was In Contact With A Russian Who Offered A Trump-Putin Meeting  —  Her contact, a Russian Olympic weightlifter, said a meeting between Trump and Putin could expedite a Trump tower in Moscow.  —  Amid intense scrutiny of contacts between Donald Trump's inner circle and representatives …
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Sarah Jones / New Republic:
John Conyers's Medicare for All bill gains steam in the wake of Trumpcare's failure.
Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
Judge Calls Trump's Border Separations of Children ‘Brutal’  — ACLU lawsuit is allowed to proceed in San Diego federal court  — Administration says policy helps prosecute undocumented adults  —  The Trump administration failed to kill a legal challenge to its practice …
Discussion: HuffPost
New York Times:
A Medical Mystery Grows as U.S. Consulate Workers in China Fall Ill  —  GUANGZHOU, China — A crisis over a mysterious ailment sickening American diplomats and their families — which began in Cuba and recently appeared in China — widened on Wednesday.  The State Department evacuated at least …
Pedro Nicolaci da Costa / Business Insider:
Elizabeth Warren says there's a dirty little secret behind the Republicans' push for broad deregulation  — Senator Elizabeth Warren sharply criticizes the Trump administration's wide-ranging deregulatory efforts, pushing hard against the notion that rules of the road restrict economic freedom.
Andrew Freedman / Axios:
Mapped: Global temperatures since 1880  —  Every area of the globe has warmed since instrument records began in 1880, NASA data shows.  The planet isn't warming equally, however — the fastest temperature increases are taking place at the poles.  That Arctic, for example …
YouTube:
Sen. McConnell Opposes Corker's Tariff Proposal: Let's Not Rein in the President  —  SiriusXM's Chief Washington Correspondent Olivier Knox sits down with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about the potential economic impact of tariffs o...
Alicia H. Munnell / Politico:
Millennials and retirement: How bad is it?  —  Today's young adults are falling behind but there's a way they can catch up. … Concern about the financial health of America's younger generations is growing—especially millennials, a demographic boom that came of age in an environment …
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Meet the New York architect who was a key figure in Donald Trump's deals and connections in Eastern Europe  —  As Robert Mueller looks ever more closely at President Donald Trump's foreign business ties, one former associate has remained outside the spotlight despite playing a key role …
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Papadopoulos Was Approached By ‘Highly Suspicous’ Businessmen, His Wife Claims  — A dossier source allegedly offered Papadopoulos $30,000 a month to work from inside Trump administration  —  In the wake of the revelation that an FBI informant lured George Papadopoulos to London during the 2016 campaign …
 
 
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