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11:45 PM ET, June 6, 2019

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CNN:
Inside Jerry Nadler's private push to open up impeachment inquiry  —  Nadler: Mueller clearly demonstrated that Trump is lying  —  (CNN)At a frank meeting this week, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler again lobbied to win Speaker Nancy Pelosi's support for an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
House Backs Off Holding Barr in Contempt in New Resolution  —  WASHINGTON — After weeks of pledging to hold Attorney General William P. Barr and the former White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II in contempt for defying subpoenas, House Democrats appear poised to pursue an alternative path to try to force them into sharing information.
Discussion: Political Wire and Splinter
Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:
House Democrats To Make It Easier To Find Trump Aides In Contempt, Bring Them To Court  —  The House will also more forward with enforcing subpoenas against Attorney General William Barr and ex-White House counsel Don McGahn.  —  WASHINGTON — House Democrats are set to vote next week …
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
DOJ, Commerce reject Dem subpoenas for census docs
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Joe Biden reverses course on Hyde abortion amendment  —  ATLANTA (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is reversing course and declaring that he no longer supports a long-standing congressional ban on using federal health care money to pay for abortions.
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John Solomon / The Hill:
Key figure that Mueller report linked to Russia was a State Department intel source  —  In a key finding of the Mueller report, Ukrainian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik, who worked for Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is tied to Russian intelligence.  —  But hundreds of pages …
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
New Files From GOP Operative's Hard Drive Suggest N.C. Republicans Lied in Court to Maintain Racial Gerrymander  —  The latest bombshell from the formerly secret files of the GOP's top gerrymandering guru emerged on Thursday, and it's astounding: Voting rights advocates claim to have evidence …
Discussion: NPR and Shareblue Media
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
Deceased Strategist's Files Detail Republican Gerrymandering in North Carolina, Advocates Say
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:   Court Doc: GOP Consultant's Files Reveal NC Leg Lied In Redistricting Case
Washington Post:
Mexico aims to avoid tariffs with potential deal limiting migrants going north, allowing U.S. to deport Central American asylum seekers  —  U.S. and Mexican officials are discussing the outlines of a deal that would dramatically increase Mexico's immigration enforcement efforts and give …
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The Hill:
Trump plans to declare new national emergency to impose tariffs  —  President Trump is planning to declare a new national emergency in order to implement sweeping tariffs on Mexico over the flow of Central American migrants to the U.S., according to a draft document of the declaration reviewed by The Hill.
CNN:
Larry Kudlow once said Trump's proposed trade policies ‘will pose incalculable damage’ to US economy
Discussion: fox5sandiego.com
Media Matters for America:
Two of Fox News' most vitriolic hosts just lost a major advertiser: Bayer  —  The multinational pharmaceutical company Bayer has dropped Tucker Carlson's and Laura Ingraham's Fox News prime-time shows, Judd Legum reported in his Popular Info newsletter.  —  Bayer's departure is a devastating blow …
Discussion: RedState
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Stacy Perman / Los Angeles Times:
No, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was not misquoted in Nieman Lab  —  There is the word.  And then there is Twitter.  —  An interview with Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg and executive editor Adrienne LaFrance in Nieman Lab about the 162-year-old publication's efforts to include …
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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Michael Bloomberg Promises $500 Million to Help End Coal  —  WASHINGTON — Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, will donate $500 million to a new campaign to close every coal-fired power plant in the United States and halt the growth of natural gas, his foundation said Thursday.
Discussion: Political Wire
Renato Mariotti / Politico:
How Trump Could Be Prosecuted After the White House  —  With Congress enmeshed in a fraught debate over whether to impeach President Donald Trump, Robert Mueller's brief and dramatic news conference provided a sharp reminder that impeachment is not the only option for addressing the president's alleged misdeeds.
Discussion: Washington Post and CNN
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Michael Flynn fires legal team with sentencing looming on federal charges  —  Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn has fired his legal team as he awaits sentencing for lying to the FBI about his conversations with a top Russian official, according to a new filing Thursday from his longtime attorneys.
Discussion: Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:   FBI agent: Russian official tried to arrange Trump-Putin call for day after inauguration
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
U.S. commander says American forces face ‘imminent’ threat from Iran  —  Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie says he believes the Iranians or their proxies may orchestrate an attack at any moment.  —  BAGHDAD — The top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East says he believes the Iranians …
Discussion: Sean Hannity
Aiden Pink / The Forward:
DC Dyke March Bans Jewish Pride Flag  —  A gay pride parade in Washington, D.C. has been criticized by Jewish and LGBTQ groups for banning Jewish and Israeli symbols from its Friday event.  —  The D.C. Dyke March is designed to include people of diverse races, religions and gender identities …
Mark Di Stefano / BuzzFeed:
A Dutch Teenager's Death Was Wrongly Reported As “Legal Euthanasia” Across International Media.  Here's How They All Got It Wrong.  —  Inaccurate stories claiming the 17-year-old had been “legally euthanised” travelled so widely across the internet that even the pope appeared to tweet about it.
Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Automakers Tell Trump His Pollution Rules Could Mean ‘Untenable’ Instability and Lower Profits  —  WASHINGTON — The world's largest automakers warned President Trump on Thursday that one of his most sweeping deregulatory efforts — his plan to weaken tailpipe pollution standards …
David French / National Review:
Social-Media Censorship Is the Product of Culture and Commerce  —  Free choice has created a challenge the law can't overcome.  —  If you pay any attention to conservative Twitter, you're aware of this week's incident in social-media censorship.  YouTube has “demonetized” conservative comedian Steven Crowder's YouTube channel.
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Brady McCombs / HuffPost:
Trump Supporter Arrested After Allegedly Threatening To Kill Members of Congress  —  Scott Brian Haven of Utah is accused of making over 2,000 phone calls to the U.S. Capitol over a three-year period about Democrats threatening Trump's presidency.  —  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) …
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Democrats Learned the Wrong Lesson From Clinton's Impeachment  —  Democrats debating whether to impeach Donald Trump may be misreading the evidence from the last time the House tried to remove a president.  —  It's become conventional wisdom—not only among Democrats but also among many political analysts …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Walter Shapiro / New Republic:   1998 Was a Seinfeld Election—Not an Impeachment Referendum
Matt Dixon / Politico:
DeSantis staff shakeup prompts competing narratives  —  TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis has lost as many as seven aides in the past 24 hours, some of whom have been with him since the start of his campaign, according to a person with direct knowledge of the turnover.
Discussion: Splinter
New York Times:
Police Commissioner Apologizes for Officers' Actions in Stonewall Rebellion  —  New York's police commissioner, James P. O'Neill, apologized on Thursday on behalf of the Police Department for officers' actions during the Stonewall riot, a seminal 1969 clash outside a Greenwich Village club …
politics.theonion.com:
Media Urged Not To Release Names Of Any More Presidential Candidates In Effort To Prevent Copycats  —  WASHINGTON—Warning that the promise of publicity and notoriety is often exactly what motivates a run for the White House in the first place, media ethics groups called on news outlets Thursday …
Matthew Adams / Dallas Morning News:
Should women who have abortions go to jail?  ‘Absolutely,’ says Arlington Rep. Ron Wright  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Ron Wright, R-Arlington, said on a video released by an abortion rights group that women commit murder if they have an abortion and should “absolutely” be punished.
Jia Tolentino / New Yorker:
Please, My Wife, She's Very Online  —  It might have begun with “Borat.”  In that Sacha Baron Cohen mockumentary, from 2006, which was subtitled “Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” the protagonist has a particular way of saying “my wife,” which …
Discussion: New York Times
Washington Post:
‘These boys were on a holiday’: Trump family members promote themselves, and businesses, on European trip  —  As parties go, it's hard to top a state dinner with the queen of England, but President Trump's sons — Donald Jr. and Eric — tried to keep the revelry going during an impromptu pub crawl in Doonbeg …
 
 
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Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
For many black voters, 2020 isn't about pride or making history. It's about beating Trump
Discussion: The Root
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Trump's Great D-Day Speech
Patrick Condon / Star Tribune:
Minnesota Campaign Board fines Rep. Ilhan Omar, says she must reimburse campaign
Discussion: Power Line and twitchy.com
Pia Deshpande / Politico:
Buttigieg says Stacey Abrams was robbed in Georgia governor's race
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Pelosi Wants Trump to Go to Prison. Here's How It Could Happen.
Discussion: Politico, Fox News and The Daily Caller
Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter:
CNN's Don Lemon Reveals He Was Called “F***ot” Recently While Filming Show
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Michael Cohen's life behind bars
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The GoFundMe Border Wall Is Finished. It's Not Stopping Migrants From Coming In.
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Matt Shuham / Talking Points Memo:
Measure Of Public Mood Is ‘Most Liberal Ever Recorded,’ Political Scientist Says
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
White House invites key Trump business allies to Bahrain forum in search for a Middle East ‘deal of the century’
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