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7:00 PM ET, June 24, 2018

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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Overheard at the DSCC retreat on Martha's Vineyard  —  SEN. MARK WARNER (D-Va.) hosted a dinner Friday night for more than 100 guests at his house on Martha's Vineyard as part of the DSCC'S annual Majority Trust retreat.  OVERHEARD: Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee …
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Condemned Trump in Reno. He Answered in Las Vegas With a Slur.
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Let the Trump team eat in peace  —  OVER THE WEEKEND there was a fair bit of argument over the decision by a small restaurant in Lexington, Va., not to serve dinner to President Trump's press secretary.  It wasn't the first time recently that strong political feelings have spilled into what used to be considered the private sphere.
Washington Post:
Trump advocates depriving undocumented immigrants of due-process rights  —  President Trump on Sunday explicitly advocated depriving undocumented immigrants of their due-process rights, arguing that people who cross the border into the United States illegally must immediately be deported without trial …
Discussion: The Week
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Doina Chiacu / Reuters:   Trump calls for deporting illegal immigrants with ‘no judges or court cases’
Mike Godwin / Los Angeles Times:
Do we need to update Godwin's Law about the probability of comparison to Nazis?  —  Does Godwin's Law need to be updated?  Suspended?  Repealed?  I get asked this question from time to time because I'm the guy who came up with it more than a quarter century ago.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Allan Richarz / The Hill:
The strategic blunder of ‘Trump-as-Hitler’  —  You knew it was coming.  Eighteen months into the Trump administration and the president's ostensibly serious critics have finally broken the glass on the “Trump-is-a-Nazi” line of attack.  —  To be certain, there were previous allusions to this from media …
Discussion: Instapundit
Mitt Romney / Salt Lake Tribune:
Where I stand on the Trump agenda  —  I appreciate the argument made by those who believe we should stay silent, but I cannot subscribe to it.  —  One of the questions I am asked frequently on the campaign trail is whether as Senator I will support the Trump agenda.
New York Times:
New Emails Suggest Scott Pruitt Discussed Hiring a Friend of Lobbyist Landlord  —  Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, discussed hiring a friend of a lobbyist family that owned a condominium he was renting for $50 a night, newly released emails suggest.
Discussion: CNN and Political Wire
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Washington Post:   Lobbyist tied to Pruitt's condo rental pushed for EPA to hire family friend, emails show
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
The big picture: 2018's stormiest clouds for the GOP  —  A source close to Republican leadership emails about the biggest political clouds hovering over the rest of the year:  —  “Only thing that matters now is a) how bad they get crushed on ACA premium increases; b) the final Mueller verdict; and c) how crazy Trump gets with the CR.”
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Paul Demko / Politico:   Reversal of fortune: Obamacare rate hikes pose headache for Republicans
CBS News:
CBS News Battleground Tracker: Arizona, Florida, Texas - immigration and key Senate races  —  The latest CBS News Battleground Tracker dives into how the issue of immigration and the separation of families at the border is playing in the key states of Arizona, Texas and Florida.
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CBS News:   CBS News Battleground Tracker: Sharp divides over immigration, separation
Axios:
What we're watching: How Trump's Democrat-blaming plays with the GOP  —  As pressure builds for Congress to pass legislation that would keep migrant families together at the border, President Trump continues to tweet, blaming Democrats for lawmakers' failure to act and forcing fellow Republicans to contend with his statements.
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The Daily Beast:
Sunday Shows Feature 12 Headliners, Only One of Whom Is Hispanic
Discussion: Axios
Ilan Ben Zion / Associated Press:
Kushner rips Abbas, says Mideast peace plan due ‘soon’  —  JERUSALEM (AP) — President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser said in an interview published Sunday that the administration will soon present its Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, with or without input from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Trump Leaves His Mark on a Presidential Keepsake  —  Under President Trump, once stately medallions have gotten glitzier, and at least one featured a Trump property.  Ethics watchdogs are worried.  —  WASHINGTON — Since Bill Clinton occupied the White House, the commemorative medallions known …
Earl Blumenauer:
It's time we abolish ICE  —  We've all experienced a phone app that's not working properly, or a computer program that freezes the machine.  What do you do?  Lesson number one: shut it down.  —  It works for computers.  Maybe that's what we need to do with Immigration and Custom Enforcement …
Beth Reinhard / Washington Post:
Stormy Daniels to meet with prosecutors in Michael Cohen investigation  —  Stormy Daniels is scheduled Monday to be interviewed by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, preparing for a potential grand jury appearance about a $130,000 payment from President Trump's attorney Michael Cohen …
Discussion: Law & Crime and Political Wire
Business Insider:
America's closest allies are furious about Trump's tariffs, and now an unorthodox idea to go after him is gaining steam  —  President Donald Trump's headlong push toward a trade war is prompting unprecedented responses from countries around the world and blowback from top US allies.
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
This Was the Week That Finally Broke Trump's Spell … Donald Trump can't define or pronounce the word Manichaean, but he knows it when he sees it.  For Trump, there are two types of people; Donald Trump, and losers, and the one thing Donald Trump can't abide is a loser.
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
This Obama-era pilot program kept asylum-seeking migrant families together.  Trump canceled it.  —  ICE said the Family Case Management Program, which cost the government $36 a day, was too expensive compared to other monitoring methods.  —  In the wake of the 2014 migrant crisis that saw …
Kyle Olson / The American Mirror:
Maxine Waters orders MORE public harassment of Trump aides: ‘God is on OUR side!’  —  Maxine Waters wants more people to harass Trump administration officials in public spaces.  —  The California Congresswoman went on a shouting rampage during a toy drive outside the Wilshire Federal Building on Saturday.
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
Kamala Harris Says Congress Needs To Change ICE, Perhaps ‘Start From Scratch’  —  She is the highest profile Democrat to endorse significant change to the nation's immigration enforcement system.  —  Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said Congress should reconsider the nation's immigration enforcement system …
Heather Knight / San Francisco Chronicle:
Poop.  Needles.  Rats.  Homeless camp pushes SF neighborhood to the edge  —  One awful experience on one unremarkable city block represent the hellscape that has infuriated many San Francisco residents  —  The Chronicle receives a deluge of email every day, but one message sent …
Discussion: American Greatness
 
 
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North Korea erasing most anti-US propaganda
April Glaser / Slate:
How Conservative Videos on Facebook Boosted Trump's Message on Immigration
New York Times:
Bernie Sanders Is Winning Converts. But Primary Victories Remain Elusive.
Washington Post:
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Ivanka and Vodka, on the Rocks
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Mixed Signals in the Battle for Congress
Molly McKew / Los Angeles Times:
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Thomas Lifson / American Thinker:
Facing humiliation, Mueller backs away from prosecution of Russian entities
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
U.S. officials separated him from his child. Then he was deported to El Salvador.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Dan Spinelli / Mother Jones:
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