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11:40 AM ET, June 3, 2018

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Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
President Trump ‘probably does’ have the power to pardon himself: Giuliani  —  President Trump's lead attorney said the president “probably does” have the power to pardon himself.  —  Rudy Giuliani was discussing with ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” …
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Giuliani threatens legal battle with Mueller over subpoena  —  The president's lawyer Rudy Giuliani threatened a legal battle with special counsel Robert Mueller if he attempts to subpoena Donald Trump.  —  “If Mueller tries to subpoena us, we're going to court,” Giuliani told ABC News.
Jacqueline Klimas / Politico:
Giuliani: Trump's team ‘leaning toward’ recommending he not talk with Mueller  —  The president's legal team is “leaning toward not” recommending he participate in an interview with the team investigating Russian interference in the 2016 elections, Rudy Giuliani, a member of the team, said Sunday.
Discussion: Political Wire
New York Times:
Trump's Lawyers, in Confidential Memo, Argue to Head off a Historic Subpoena  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's lawyers have for months quietly waged a campaign to keep the special counsel from trying to force him to answer questions in the investigation into whether he obstructed justice …
New York Times:
The Trump Lawyers' Confidential Memo to Mueller, Explained
Quinta Jurecic / Lawfare:
Documents: Letters to Special Counsel Robert Mueller from the Trump Legal Team
Discussion: New York Times and Hullabaloo
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Obama - Just Too Good for Us  —  WASHINGTON — It was a moment of peak Spock.  —  Hours after the globe-rattling election of a man whom Barack Obama has total disdain for, a toon who would take a chain saw to the former president's legacy on policy and decency, Obama sent a message …
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Roger Kimball / American Greatness:
A Clueless “Final Year”  —  Remember the Duck Rabbit?  That's the famous image that, seen one way, looks like a duck but, seen from another angle, looks like a rabbit.  The image has provided fodder for children's books and also philosophers, its inherent ambiguity being catnip to both light fancy and epistemological lucubration.
Ben Rhodes / The Atlantic:
Inside the White House During the Syrian ‘Red Line’ Crisis  —  In the course of a presidency, a U.S. president says millions of words in public.  You never know which of them end up cementing a certain impression.  For Barack Obama, one of those phrases would be “red line.”
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Washington Post:
Trump thinks he's saving trade.  The rest of the world thinks he's blowing it up.  —  President Trump appears prepared to unravel 70 years of pain­staking effort that the United States has led to build an inter­national system of trade based on mutually accepted rules and principles.
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Associated Press:
US singled out by G7 allies over steel and aluminum tariffs
Discussion: Axios
Lauren Meier / Axios:
Under cloud of tariffs, a U.S. trade delegation arrives in Beijing
Sylvan Lane / The Hill:
Trump's economy faces new threats ahead of midterms
Discussion: Politico and POLITICUSUSA
Joshua Zumbrun / Wall Street Journal:   G-7 Members Condemn U.S. Trade Actions
CBS News:
CBS News Battleground Tracker: The House is a toss-up  —  Dems 219- Reps 216 in tight contest for control  —  In the race for Congress, most polls report one national percentage for Democrats and Republicans.  But that's not very helpful - because this is a race for seats.  435 of them, in fact.
Discussion: Political Wire
Doree Lewak / New York Post:
Dating columnist reveals how ‘Sex and the City’ ruined her life  —  “Sex and the City” premiered on HBO 20 years ago this week, imprinting on a generation of women a love of fantastic fashion and dreams of their own Mr. Big.  Among them was Julia Allison, who moved to New York in the early 2000s to live the Carrie Bradshaw lifestyle.
Cora Engelbrecht / New York Times:
Fewer Immigrants Are Reporting Domestic Abuse.  Police Blame Fear of Deportation.  —  HOUSTON — For years, she slept with a gun under her pillow, living in fear of a boyfriend who beat her, controlled her life, and threatened to kill her and her children.  Domenica, who came to this country illegally …
Oscar Contreras / TheDenverChannel.com:
Denver Police investigating accidental shooting from gun of an off-duty FBI agent  —  DENVER - Police are investigating an accidental shooting that sent a man to a hospital early Saturday morning.  —  The apparent, accidental shooting happened just before 12:45 a.m. at the Mile High Spirits club …
Discussion: The Root and Raw Story
Kansas City Star:
This ‘replica’ in the jeep next to Kobach stunned some onlookers at Shawnee parade  —  Kris Kobach made his way through a parade in Johnson County Saturday morning, waving from an American flag colored jeep with a large gun mounted in back.  —  The sight of Kobach, a Republican candidate …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Associated Press
Politico:
GOP senators need an agenda — so they're doing a poll  —  Ted Cruz and Lamar Alexander are surveying their conference to figure out what the party should pursue while it still controls all of Congress.  —  Republican senators aren't sure what to do between now and the November election.
Rick Klein / ABC News:
ANALYSIS: California's ‘jungle primary’ has unintended consequences for Democrats  —  It was billed as a remedy for the plague of partisanship, a sweeping change to how politicians are elected that would encourage more inclusive politics in the nation's largest state - and maybe hasten an end to gridlock altogether.
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Lisa Senecal / The Daily Beast:
The NDA Protected Our Predator. I'm Breaking My Silence, Because Women Deserve Better.
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Jon Tester, a Democrat in Deep-Red Montana, Isn't Sweating Trump's Threats
Josh Smith / Reuters:
Syria's Assad says will visit North Korea, news agency reports
Discussion: Politico and Washington Post
Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
New Italian govt vows to create jobs, deport migrants
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Tom Namako / BuzzFeed:
Jared Kushner's Dad Says Ethics Groups “Assure That Poor, Not Successful People” Get Government Jobs
Discussion: HuffPost
Mike Shoro / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
2 tourists stabbed to death at Circus Circus in Las Vegas
Politico:
Trump to host Ramadan dinner
 Earlier Items: 
John Bowden / The Hill:
ZTE hired former Trump aide as lobbyist: report
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump slams ‘the resistance’ in weekly address
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Steve Bannon's clever idea to save the GOP from brutal midterms
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Edward Malnick / Telegraph:
Russia should be suspended from Interpol after using international arrest warrant to detain Putin critic, MPs say
Discussion: Raw Story
Kenneth Partridge / Billboard:
Bruce Springsteen's ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’ at 40: Nighttime, Freedom & the Eternal Chase
New York Post:
Deadbeat son claims he's too broke to pay child support
Discussion: IJR
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple and OpenAI are preparing a major announcement of their partnership at WWDC; the new AirTag with a better chip is scheduled to arrive by mid-2025

Sam Altman / @sama:
Sam Altman says he is embarrassed that there was a provision about potential equity cancellation in exit docs, and OpenAI never took back anyone's vested equity

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Culture secretary Lucy Frazer says the UK is working on rules around the use of creative work for training AI after media and arts executives voiced concerns

 
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