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6:55 PM ET, June 19, 2018

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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 …
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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, Washington Post and CNN
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Outrage Over Family Separation Is Exactly What Stephen Miller Wants
CBS News:
Members of Sessions' church accuse him of child abuse for border policies
Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:
Jeff Sessions' own church charges him with child abuse
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Trump's Cruelty and the Crying Children at the Border
Discussion: Washington Post, Vox and Bloomberg
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 …
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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.
Olivia Beavers / The Hill:
FBI agent Peter Strzok escorted from building amid internal review  —  FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok was escorted from the building amid an internal review of his conduct, his lawyer confirmed Tuesday.  —  Strzok, who had a central role in the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton
USA Today:
Donald Trump is wrong.  My client Peter Strzok is a patriot, not a ‘sick loser.’  —  Donald Trump is attacking Peter Strzok, the FBI and the Justice Department in order to pre-emptively discredit the results of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.  —  CONNECT
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
IG confirms he is reviewing whether Strzok's anti-Trump bias impacted launch of Russia probe
Discussion: RedState and The Gateway Pundit
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.
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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.
Mariam Khan / ABC News:
Senate Republicans buck Trump and back bill to halt immigrant family separations
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Trump is defiant as border crisis escalates, lobbies House GOP on immigration bills
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump treks to Capitol Hill as immigration firestorm rages
Discussion: ABC News, The Week and Breitbart
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell backs bill to keep immigrant families together
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 …
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Josh Lederman / Associated Press:   Sens. McCain, Coons urge Trump to withdraw migration nominee
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
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
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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 …
Wall Street Journal:   Michael Cohen Wants Trump to Pay His Legal Fees
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
White House deputy chief of staff to leave in July  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House aide who led the planning for President Donald Trump's meeting last week with North Korea's Kim Jong Un has decided to leave the Trump administration to return to the private sector.
Discussion: The Atlantic, CNBC and Hit & Run
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BuzzFeed:   One Of Trump's Top Aides Is Leaving The White House
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
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 …
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 …
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: Hit & Run and New Republic
Gabriel Malor / The Federalist:
Democrats' Border Separation Bill Would Let Nearly All Parents Who Commit Federal Crimes Get Off Scot-Free  —  Every Senate Democrat has signed on to cosponsor a bill written so carelessly that it does not distinguish between foreign children at the border and U.S. citizen children.
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Hot Air:
If Schumer Wants To End Child Separation Urgently, Why Doesn't He Back Cruz's Bill?
Discussion: Daily Wire
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
A reporter at the White House decided to play the audio of children sobbing.  Somebody had to.  —  Olivia Nuzzi had no plans of playing the heart-rending audio of Central American children crying for their parents when she arrived in the White House briefing room Monday.
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The Onion / politics.theonion.com:
Stephen Miller Furious At ProPublica For Only Releasing 7-Minute Recording Of Immigrant Children Sobbing
Discussion: The Onion
Daniel Dale / Toronto Star:
Donald Trump accuses Canadians of smuggling shoes home from U.S.  —  WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump has called Canada “brutal,” accused Canada's prime minister of being “weak,” and taken aim at Canada's supply management system for dairy.  —  Now he is calling Canadians shoe smugglers.
Fox News:
Manafort in ‘solitary confinement’ to avoid attack by someone intent on ‘street cred,’ Trump ex-lawyer says  —  Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is being held in “solitary confinement” after his bail was revoked, in an “outrageous violation” of his civil liberties, former Trump lawyer John Dowd told Fox News on Tuesday.
Discussion: Mediaite, VICE and Fortune
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.
 
 
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Immigrant Child Detentions Mean $458 Million for Nonprofit
Discussion: Houston Chronicle
Michael Harriot / The Root:
Watch This White Woman Explain to a Black Woman Why Slavery Wasn't So Bad
Discussion: Raw Story
Sky News:
Call me Mr President: Macron scolds teenager who called him ‘Manu’
Emily Davies / People.com:
Hard-Partying Donald Trump Jr. Was Dubbed ‘Diaper Don’ in College, New Book Details
Discussion: Splinter and AOL
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
‘Pro-Life,’ Pro-Family Groups Are MIA On Family Separations At The Border
Wall Street Journal:
Michael Cohen Called In Loan While Seeking Funds to Pay Stormy Daniels
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Sam Lavigne:
Downloading the profiles of everyone on LinkedIn who works for ICE
Discussion: The Verge, Boing Boing and Motherboard
Aviya Kushner / The Forward:
‘INFEST’ — The Ugly Nazi History of Trump's Chosen Verb About Immigrants
Discussion: Raw Story and Boing Boing
Erik Wasson / Bloomberg:
House GOP Unveils Budget to Fast-Track Tax Cuts, End Obamacare
Axios:
Don Junior cancels fundraiser with Bush son
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
QAnon, the Crazy Pro-Trump Conspiracy, Melts Down Over OIG Report
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January

 
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