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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 …
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RedState, Fox News, Washington Post and CNN
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
The Outrage Over Family Separation Is Exactly What Stephen Miller Wants
George Takei / Foreign Policy:
‘At Least During the Internment ...’ Are Words I Thought I'd Never Utter
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CBS News:
Members of Sessions' church accuse him of child abuse for border policies
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al.com, The United Methodist Church and Vox
Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:
Jeff Sessions' own church charges him with child abuse
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ThinkProgress and New York Magazine
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Trump's Cruelty and the Crying Children at the Border
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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.
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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
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Washington Times and The Gateway Pundit
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
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Bloomberg, CNN, Law & Crime, Mediaite, ACS Blog and Fox News Insider
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
IG confirms he is reviewing whether Strzok's anti-Trump bias impacted launch of Russia probe
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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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The Right Scoop, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com and Ted Cruz
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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.
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National Review, Vox, Townhall, Outside the Beltway and Raw Story
Mariam Khan / ABC News:
Senate Republicans buck Trump and back bill to halt immigrant family separations
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Politico
Washington Post:
Trump is defiant as border crisis escalates, lobbies House GOP on immigration bills
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Weekly Standard, Daily Wire, Mother Jones and The Daily Caller
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell backs bill to keep immigrant families together
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National Review, NPR and Washington Free Beacon
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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Townhall, Politico, Breitbart, CNBC, Daily Wire, IJR, Lawyers, Guns & Money, MSNBC, Axios, Pacific Standard and Talking Points Memo
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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,
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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 …
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.
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Globe and Mail, TalkLeft, Axios, The Intercept, TheBlaze, The Week, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
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.
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MSN:
White House deputy chief of staff to leave in July
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Political Wire, The Week and CNN
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
White House deputy chief of staff Hagin to leave
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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 …
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Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, Balloon Juice and The Atlantic
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 …
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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.
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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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Townhall, RedState, USA Today, Hot Air, Daily Wire, Washington Free Beacon, twitchy.com, Axios, The Week and Fox News
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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 Nation, Media Matters for America, The Root, Portland Mercury, Media Matters for America and Splinter
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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.
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New York Post, Washington Press and Breitbart
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.
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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