memeorandum: Senate Republicans buck Trump and back bill to halt immigrant family separations (Mariam Khan/ABC News)

7:50 PM ET, June 19, 2018

Top Items:

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:

Meghan McCain Calls Out First Daughter's Silence on Child Separation: ‘Where Is Ivanka?’ — On The View this morning, Meghan McCain brought up Ivanka Trump to ask where she's been on this issue of family separation at the border. — The outrage over separating children from their parents …

Discussion: Washington Post, Vox and Mother Jones

Bill Goodykoontz / USA Today:

News media finally calls out Trump on his lies. It took children in cages to make it happen. … An audio recording that appears to capture the heartbreaking cries of children being processed by officials took center stage Monday in the growing uproar over the Trump administration's policy …

Discussion: RedState, Fox News, CNN and Washington Post

CBS News:

Members of Sessions' church accuse him of child abuse for border policies — Hundreds of United Methodists have brought church law charges against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who is a member of the denomination. In a June 18 statement, more than 600 members of the denomination …

Discussion: al.com, Religion News Service and The United Methodist Church

George Takei / Foreign Policy:
‘At Least During the Internment ...’ Are Words I Thought I'd Never Utter

Discussion: ABC News, The Atlantic, Mashable, CNN, Vox, Real Clear Politics, twitchy.com, ThinkProgress, IJR, Deadline, The Daily Caller and KTLA

David Remnick / New Yorker:
Trump's Cruelty and the Crying Children at the Border

Discussion: HuffPost, Washington Post and Vox

New York Times:
Republicans Move to Defuse Family Separation Crisis Through Legislation

Discussion: National Review, RedState, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Washington Post and Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Washington Post:
Trump urges House GOP to fix immigration system, expresses no strong preference on rival bills …

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Motherboard, The Crime Report and Mother Jones

HuffPost:

Rudy Giuliani Says FBI Questioned Him On Leaks That Hurt Clinton Campaign — Trump's lawyer says he talked with two FBI agents in his suite at the Trump International Hotel in D.C. — WASHINGTON Rudy Giuliani says FBI agents interviewed him in his room at the Trump International Hotel earlier …

Discussion: New York Times, Washington Press, Law & Crime, The Week, The Mahablog and Crooked Media

Laura Jarrett / CNN:

FBI agent Strzok escorted from FBI building Friday — Washington (CNN)FBI agent Peter Strzok was escorted from the FBI building Friday as part of the ongoing internal proceedings at the bureau on his conduct, according to a source familiar with the matter. — As of Tuesday, the source said, Strzok is still an FBI employee.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, National Review, The Right Scoop and Daily Wire

Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
FBI agent Peter Strzok escorted from building amid internal review

Discussion: Washington Times, TheBlaze and The Gateway Pundit

Brooke Singman / Fox News:
IG confirms he is reviewing whether Strzok's anti-Trump bias impacted launch of Russia probe

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and RedState

Wall Street Journal:

Michael Cohen Wants Trump to Pay His Legal Fees — Former personal lawyer for Trump hires New York attorney Guy Petrillo — Michael Cohen has hired New York lawyer Guy Petrillo to represent him in a federal investigation into his business dealings, and has told associates he wants President Donald Trump …

Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:

Breaking: Michael Cohen, Holding His Cards Close to the Vest, Has Hired a New Lawyer — The president's former attorney, who parted with his lawyers last week, has now hired Guy Petrillo, who served as the chief of the criminal division in the S.D.N.Y. from 2008 to 2009. — BY - EMILY JANE FOXJune 19, 2018,

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and CNBC

CNN:

Michael Cohen is hiring an experienced criminal lawyer in New York — Source: Cohen signals willingness to cooperate — Washington (CNN)President Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen is hiring Guy Petrillo, a former chief of the criminal division of the US attorney's office in Manhattan …

Discussion: Washington Press

Nick Wadhams / Bloomberg:

U.S. Plans to Withdraw From UN Human Rights Council Today — Haley has said panel wages ‘pathological’ anti-Israel campaign — U.K.'s Johnson has said council is flawed but has value — The Trump administration plans to announce its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council …

Discussion: IJR, Politico, CNBC, Breitbart, Townhall, Daily Wire, Lawyers, Guns & Money, MSNBC, Axios, Pacific Standard and Talking Points Memo

Josh Lederman / Associated Press: Sens. McCain, Coons urge Trump to withdraw migration nominee

Frank Miles / Fox News:
US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council as Haley decries ‘cesspool of political bias’

Discussion: Front Page Magazine and LifeNews.com

Abigail Williams / NBC News:
U.S. withdraws from U.N. Human Rights Council

Discussion: Weekly Standard, The Right Scoop and NPR

Conor Finnegan / ABC News: US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council

Carol Morello / Washington Post:
U.S. expected to back away from U.N. Human Rights Council

Discussion: Vox

McClatchy Washington Bureau:

Exclusive: US officials likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant kids — WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant children, thousands more than lawmakers were alerted to last month, according to a McClatchy review of federal data.

Discussion: Globe and Mail, TalkLeft, The Intercept, Axios, TheBlaze, POLITICUSUSA, The Week and Raw Story

Burgess Everett / Politico:

Trump loses temper over border wall funding — The president complained in a private meeting that Senate Republicans won't fully fund his wall — and threatened a shutdown in September. — President Donald Trump is getting frustrated with his administration's own demands for border wall funding.

Discussion: Vox, National Review, Townhall, Raw Story and Outside the Beltway

Mariam Khan / ABC News:

Senate Republicans buck Trump and back bill to halt immigrant family separations — In a firm rebuke to President Donald Trump, all Republican senators in Congress want to halt the separation of immigrant families at the border, and they plan to work on legislation as soon as this week to stop …

Discussion: Politico

McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Outrage Over Family Separation Is Exactly What Stephen Miller Wants

BuzzFeed:

One Of Trump's Top Aides Is Leaving The White House — The White House announced Joe Hagin's plan to leave government a day after a BuzzFeed News report. — Reporting From Washington, DC — Joe Hagin, a top aide to President Donald Trump, will be leaving the White House next month …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller

Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
White House deputy chief of staff to leave in July

Discussion: The Atlantic, CNBC and Hit & Run

MSN:
White House deputy chief of staff to leave in July

Discussion: Political Wire, The Week and CNN

Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
White House deputy chief of staff Hagin to leave

Discussion: Washington Post and TheBlaze

Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:

Jeff Sessions' own church charges him with child abuse — Hundreds of United Methodists are demanding accountability from Attorney General Jeff Sessions. — Denouncing the “damage he is currently causing to immigrants, particularly children and families,” 640 members of Attorney General …

Discussion: ThinkProgress and New York Magazine

Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Sessions responds to Nazi comparisons: ‘They were keeping the Jews from leaving’

Discussion: HuffPost, Politico, Townhall and Mother Jones

Former U.S. Attorneys:
Bipartisan Group of Former United States Attorneys Call on Sessions to End Family Separation

Discussion: Washington Post, CNN, The Hill, IJR, Vox, America's Voice, HuffPost, Law & Crime and Talking Points Memo

Julia Ainsley / NBC News:

Former ICE Director: Some migrant family separations are permanent — “You could be creating thousands of immigrant orphans in the U.S.,” said ex-Acting Director John Sandweg. — WASHINGTON — The former head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told NBC News that migrant parents separated …

Discussion: Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Balloon Juice and The Atlantic

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Schumer rejects GOP proposal to address border crisis — Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer — (N.Y.) on Tuesday dismissed a legislative proposal backed by Republican leaders to keep immigrant families together at the border, arguing that President Trump — could fix the problem more easily with a flick of his pen.

Discussion: Townhall, Vox, The Right Scoop, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon, The Week, twitchy.com and Ted Cruz

Anita Kumar / McClatchy Washington Bureau:

Buyers tied to Russia, former Soviet republics paid $109 million cash for Trump properties — WASHINGTON — Aleksandr Burman, a Ukrainian who engaged in a health care scheme that cost the federal government $26 million and was sentenced to a decade in prison, paid $725,000 cash for a condo …

Discussion: Daily Kos

Mike McIntire / New York Times:

Commerce Secretary Shorted Stock as Negative Coverage Loomed — Commerce Secretary Wilbur L. Ross Jr. shorted stock in a shipping firm — an investment tactic for profiting if share prices fall — days after learning that reporters were preparing a potentially negative story about his dealings with the Kremlin-linked company.

Discussion: Forbes, New Republic, BloombergQuint and Washington Press

Betsy Woodruff / The Daily Beast:

Erik Prince: I ‘Cooperated’ With Mueller … Erik Prince, the founder of private security company Blackwater, has found himself embroiled in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of potential coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. — During the campaign …

Discussion: Raw Story

Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:

How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country — NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A team of political activists huddled at a Hardee's one rainy Saturday, wolfing down a breakfast of biscuits and gravy. Then they descended on Antioch, a quiet Nashville suburb, armed with iPads full of voter data and a fiery script.

Discussion: Econlib, Hit & Run and New Republic

The Onion / politics.theonion.com:

Stephen Miller Furious At ProPublica For Only Releasing 7-Minute Recording Of Immigrant Children Sobbing — WASHINGTON—Claiming that the publication of such a brief, tantalizing bit of audio was a breach of their journalistic responsibility, a furious Stephen Miller told reporters Tuesday …

Discussion: The Onion

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
A reporter at the White House decided to play the audio of children sobbing. Somebody had to.

Discussion: The Nation, Media Matters for America, The Root, Portland Mercury, Media Matters for America and Splinter

Michael Harriot / The Root:

Watch This White Woman Explain to a Black Woman Why Slavery Wasn't So Bad — After using census reports and cherry-picked facts, a resident of Cobb County, Ga., recently surpassed the record held by Roseanne Barr and Rachel Dolezal on the Becky-ometer, a scientific tool used to measure the caucasity of white women.

Discussion: Raw Story

Bloomberg:

Trump's Immigrant Child Detentions Mean $458 Million for Nonprofit — Southwest Key paid to house immigrant children on U.S. behalf — Group runs former WalMart Inc. store turned detention center — The Trump administration plans to pay a Texas nonprofit nearly half a billion dollars …

Discussion: Houston Chronicle

Axios:

Don Junior cancels fundraiser with Bush son — Donald Trump Jr. and George P. Bush had formed an unlikely alliance despite their fathers, Donald Trump and Jeb Bush, loathing each other — with Don Jr. backing George P. in his re-election campaign for Texas land commissioner …