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10:00 PM ET, June 19, 2018

Top Items:

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, Law & Crime, Washington Press, The Week, The Mahablog and Crooked Media

Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:

Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani to Trump 2020 Campaign Manager Brad Parscale: ‘Keep Quiet’ … Rudy Giuliani would prefer it if his client Donald Trump's political team would stop demanding the president fire his attorney general. — “I wish they'd sit back and keep quiet for a while,” Giuliani …

Discussion: Axios, The Guardian, CNN and CNBC

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, Hot Air, The Right Scoop and Daily Wire

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

Discussion: Washington Times, The Gateway Pundit and TheBlaze

USA Today:
Donald Trump is wrong. My client Peter Strzok is a patriot, not a ‘sick loser.’

Discussion: Mediaite, Law & Crime, Bloomberg, ACS Blog, CNN and Fox News Insider

Elizabeth Zwirz / Fox News:
FBI agent Peter Strzok ‘escorted’ from FBI building, lawyer confirms

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and RedState

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: New York Times, The Atlantic and The Forward

Ashley Parker / Washington Post: President Trump seems to be saying more and more things that aren't true

Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Two charts demolish the notion that immigrants here illegally commit more crime

Discussion: The Hill, The Daily Caller, New Republic and AOL

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

Discussion: HuffPost, Washington Post and Gizmodo, more at Mediagazer »

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 …

Discussion: Hullabaloo

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: Shareblue Media, Law & Crime, The Daily Caller and Washington Press

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: CNBC and Talking Points Memo

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: RedState, twitchy.com, Townhall, National Review, Vox, TheBlaze, The Week, The Right Scoop, The Daily Caller, Daily Wire, Washington Free Beacon and Ted Cruz

The Hill:

Trump vows to stand with House GOP ‘1,000 percent’ on immigration — urged House Republicans to get an immigration bill to his desk during a closed-door meeting Tuesday evening, vowing to stand with them “1,000 percent” as they attempt to pass legislation meeting his demands. — “I am behind you so much.

Discussion: Politico and Breitbart

Burgess Everett / Politico:
Trump loses temper over border wall funding

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

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

Discussion: Politico

Los Angeles Times: Republicans in Congress look for way out of border crisis as Trump publicly stands his ground

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, Mother Jones, Vox and HuffPost

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

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

Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Over 600 United Methodist clergy, laity file church complaint against Sessions, a Methodist

Discussion: The United Methodist Church, AOL and Talking Points Memo

Bill Goodykoontz / USA Today:
News media finally calls out Trump on his lies. It took children in cages to make it happen.

Discussion: RedState, CNN, Fox News and Portland Mercury

Eric Boehlert / Shareblue Media:
Jeff Sessions' own church charges him with child abuse

Discussion: ThinkProgress and New York Magazine

Associated Press:

With eyes on midterms, Trump embraces immigration fight — WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling the shots as his West Wing clears out, President Donald Trump sees his hard-line immigration stance as a winning issue heading into a midterm election he views as a referendum on his protectionist policies.

New York Times: Bush Veteran Joseph Hagin to Leave Trump White House Post

BuzzFeed:
One Of Trump's Top Aides Is Leaving The White House

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Washington Press, The Daily Caller and Balloon Juice

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

Discussion: Vox, Breitbart, Washington Post and TheBlaze

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

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: Mashable, Politico, CNBC, IJR, Daily Wire, Breitbart, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Townhall, Axios, Pacific Standard, MSNBC and Talking Points Memo, more at Techmeme »

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

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

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

Shawn Donnan / Financial Times:
Wilbur Ross sale of Putin-linked shipping group shares revealed

Discussion: BloombergQuint and Forbes

Associated Press:

Youngest migrants held in ‘tender age’ shelters — Trump administration officials have been sending babies and other young children forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border to at least three “tender age” shelters in South Texas, The Associated Press has learned.

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

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

Esther Fung / Wall Street Journal: Florida Officials Approve Plan to Build Largest U.S. Mall

Casey Michel / ThinkProgress:

Russians and the American right started plotting in 1995. We have the notes from the first meeting. — New documents obtained by ThinkProgress show how Russian and American fundamentalists first began their collaboration. — In a congressional hearing last fall, Glenn Simpson …

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

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: VICE, Mediaite and Fortune

Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:

‘Pro-Life,’ Pro-Family Groups Are MIA On Family Separations At The Border — “We refrain from public comment on immigration,” said the president of SBA List, whose mission is to “encircle the vulnerable ones who need us.” — WASHINGTON Conservative groups that promote themselves as …

Discussion: Breitbart, Rewire.News and New York Daily News

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: New Republic, Econlib and Hit & Run

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

Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News:

Couple raises more than $5 million on Facebook to reunite immigrant families — It's Facebook's largest ever single fundraiser, and at one point, it was raising $4,000 a minute. — A campaign to help reunite immigrant families separated at the border has raised more than $5 million on Facebook …

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Times and Refinery29

Katy Vine / Texas Monthly:

A Pediatrician's View Into a Border Patrol Processing Center — Dr. Marsha Griffin, co-chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics special interest group on immigrant health, tells us what she's seen and what separation traumas could mean in the long term for immigrant children.