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11:10 AM ET, June 6, 2019

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Heather Caygle / Politico:
Pelosi tells Dems she wants to see Trump ‘in prison’  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi told senior Democrats that she'd like to see President Donald Trump “in prison” as she clashed with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler in a meeting on Tuesday night over whether to launch impeachment proceedings.
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Laurence H. Tribe / Washington Post:
Impeach Trump.  But don't necessarily try him in the Senate.  —  Laurence H. Tribe is the University Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard and the coauthor, most recently, of “To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment.”  —  It is possible to argue that impeaching President Trump …
Discussion: The Guardian and Political Wire
Chelsia Rose Marcius / The Daily Beast:
Pelosi Tells Dems She'd Like to See Trump ‘in Prison’
Discussion: The Week, Washington Times and Mediaite
NBC News:
Warren wishes handcuffs for Trump, says Biden wrong on abortion  —  The Massachusetts Democrat and 2020 contender let loose at an MSNBC town hall in Indiana.  —  FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Sen. Elizabeth Warren said at an MSNBC town hall on Wednesday night that Joe Biden is wrong for supporting …
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Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
Tucker Carlson Hails Elizabeth Warren's ‘Economic Patriotism’ Plan: ‘She Sounds Like Donald Trump at His Best’  —  Tucker Carlson is... Team Warren?  —  In a stunner of a monologue Wednesday night, the Fox News host praised Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — yes, Elizabeth Warren — for her newly-released economic proposal.
Robin Givhan / Washington Post:
Trump's catastrophic fashion choices in England were not just a sign of bad taste  —  The president and first lady have landed in Ireland.  They have left the pomp and pageantry of England.  Melania Trump has removed her Phillip Treacy hat.  The president is once again in a business suit and his too-long ties.
Malachi Barrett / MLive.com:
John James announces 2020 campaign for U.S. Senate  —  Michigan businessman and Iraq war veteran John James announced he will seek the Republican Party's nomination for U.S. Senate in 2020.  —  James, 37, announced he filed to run “after careful consideration and thoughtful prayer” …
Discussion: The Resurgent and Michigan Advance
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Washington Post:   Republican John James announces a second bid for a Senate seat from Michigan
Detroit News:
John James announces second run for U.S. Senate in Michigan
Discussion: Townhall, The Hill and Political Wire
Jacqueline Alemany / Washington Post:
Power Up: Charlamagne tha God has some questions for Joe Biden  —  Good morning and welcome back.  Happy almost Friday 😎 Thanks for all the recipes, and they will be coming tomorrow (if you manage to read to the bottom).  Thanks for waking up with us.
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Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Biden puts Texas in play, pulling ahead of Trump 48-44 in new poll and exposing 2020 peril for GOP
Discussion: The Week and Mediaite
Caitlin Huey-Burns / CBS News:
Beto O'Rourke: Biden “absolutely wrong” on Hyde Amendment support
Discussion: Axios
David Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump to stay at Doonbeg, his money-losing golf course threatened by climate change  —  President Trump arrived at his golf course in Doonbeg, Ireland, on Wednesday for a two-night stay — pausing between official events in Europe to visit a business that has cost him $41 million and never reported turning a profit.
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Anita Kumar / Politico:   Trump resort revenue has gone up after presidential visits
Robby Soave / Reason:
YouTube Punishes Steven Crowder for Homophobic Speech, a Confused Approach to an Unsolvable Problem  —  In the last 24 hours, YouTube declined to punish conservative content creator Steven Crowder for homophobic speech directed at a gay Vox journalist, then debuted a far-reaching ban on extremist videos …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Guess who else voted against federal funding for abortion?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  THE THING ABOUT THE HYDE AMENDMENT ... Over the last day, there's been a pile-on on JOE BIDEN — Beto O'Rourke, Elizabeth Warren and others have ganged up against the former VP over his support …
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Washington Post:
A wealthy Iraqi sheikh who urges a hard-line U.S. approach to Iran spent 26 nights at Trump's D.C. hotel  —  In July, a wealthy Iraqi sheikh named Nahro al-Kasnazan wrote letters to national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging them to forge closer ties …
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Who Cares About the Supreme Court's ‘Legitimacy’?  —  Conservatives seem to assume that only the chief justice is moved by fears that he and his colleagues will end up looking like politicians in robes.  —  In a rational world, the Supreme Court would hit the pause button on the pending census case …
Discussion: Althouse and Mother Jones
Zach Goldberg / Tablet Magazine:
America's White Saviors  —  To understand the motivations behind the “great awokening” we must first review some of the basics of political psychology.  Social scientists use a model called “The Big Five personality traits” or “five-factor model” to describe how the relative prevalence …
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
'Food Doesn't Grow Here Anymore.  That's Why I Would Send My Son North.'  —  A stark choice for some Guatemalans: watch crops wither, and maybe die with them, or migrate.  —  NENTÓN, Guatemala — To understand why President Trump's new sanctions and other flailing …
Kyle Kondik / Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Shadow of 1998  —  Revisiting and reassessing the GOP's poor showing and the role of impeachment in the result  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — The 1998 election has invariably come up a lot as House Democrats consider whether to impeach President Donald Trump.
Discussion: Washington Post and Bloomberg
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Military to spend a month painting border barriers to “improve aesthetic appearance”  —  Washington — Members of the military deployed near the U.S.-Mexico border have been assigned to spend a month painting a mile-long stretch of barriers to improve their “aesthetic appearance.”
Andrew Witherspoon / Axios:
Trump's empty Cabinet positions have exceeded any recent president, and it's not even close  —  No president in recent history has started their tenure with as many extended Cabinet vacancies as President Trump.  —  Why it matters: Trump has been happy to fill many of the positions with …
Anand Giridharadas / TIME:
Bernie Sanders Wants to Change America.  But He May Have to Change Himself First.  —  Bernie Sanders wants to make a joke.  Pretty good joke, he thinks.  He is slumped in a window seat in coach on a plane parked at Chicago O'Hare.  He has about an hour in transit to get the joke into his next speech.
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
Trump admits his Cabinet had ‘some clinkers’  —  The Best People: Trump's Cabinet and the Siege on Washington" by Alexander Nazaryan.  Copyright © 2019.  Available from Hachette Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.  —  They were the best people, the finest in the land, tasked with returning the nation to greatness.
Politico:
Trump's method to the madness on trade  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is not winging it.  —  Or at least he's not totally winging it.  —  However improvisational his daily machinations on trade — presented publicly as motivated by a random mix of mood and twitches of the news cycle …
Richard Fausset / New York Times:
North Carolina Legislature Fails to Overturn Governor's Veto of Anti-Abortion Bill  —  In a rare defeat for anti-abortion activists in the South, North Carolina Republicans failed on Wednesday to overturn a veto of a bill that would have made it a crime to not treat “any infant born alive after an abortion.”
Alan Cowell / New York Times:
Overlooked No More: Alan Turing, Condemned Code Breaker and Computer Visionary  —  His ideas led to early versions of modern computing and helped win World War II.  Yet he died as a criminal for his homosexuality. … LONDON — His genius embraced the first visions of modern computing …
Ronit / AWiderBridge:
By Banning Jewish and Israeli Symbols, DC Dyke March Undermines Its Intended Purpose  —  Photo via Sarah Stierch/Wikimedia Commons  —  By Banning the Jewish Pride Flag and Israeli Symbols, DC Dyke March Undermines Its Intended Purpose  —  As a coalition of LGBTQ, Jewish, and feminist organizations …
Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Who's in — and out — of the first Democratic debates  —  Barring a last-minute change, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock will not make the stage.  —  A prominent governor running in the Democratic primary is at serious risk of getting shut out of the party's first presidential debates …
Discussion: ABC News
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Kamala Harris ramps up staff, organizing in Iowa: 'It's game on.'  —  California Sen. Kamala Harris is scaling up her focus on Iowa, promising to bring on at least 65 paid staffers by July and launch a summer organizing push targeted at the precinct level.  —  “It's game on,” said Harris' Iowa campaign chairwoman, Deidre DeJear.
Discussion: Political Wire
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Still no briefing for Senate intel panel on Mueller report: sources  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The only committee of the U.S. Congress running a genuinely bipartisan probe of Russian meddling in U.S. politics has still had no word from the Trump administration on briefing the panel …
 
 
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Discussion: The National Interest
Michael E. Ruane / Washington Post:
‘The boys of Pointe du Hoc’: The Reagan D-Day speech that moved a nation
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Donald Trump / The Guardian:
Donald Trump, the one person more of a political basket case than Britain
Katie Rogers / New York Times:
An Orwellian Tale? Trump Denies, Then Confirms, ‘Nasty’ Comments About Meghan Markle
Discussion: Washington Press
Christopher Hume / Toronto Star:
Ford government's plan to allow more density in midtown is the right move — even if it's for the wrong reasons
Washington Post:
W.Va. bishop gave powerful cardinals and other priests $350,000 in cash gifts before his ouster, church records show
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Wall Street Journal:
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Meghann Myers / Military Times:
A West Point cadet just had his rape conviction overturned, leaving him free to return to the school
Discussion: Task & Purpose
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Lies? The news media is starting to describe Trump's ‘falsehoods’ that way.
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Bloomberg:
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

 
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