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6:10 PM 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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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Trump's legal memo to Robert Mueller is a recipe for tyranny  —  A clear and present danger to the rule of law  —  Essentially all presidents sooner or later end up commissioning lawyers to put forward an expansive view of presidential power, but those lawyers take pains to argue …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
David Kris / Lawfare:
The Trump Legal Team's Remarkable Letter to Mueller  —  The New York Times has published two long letters that the president's lawyers sent to Special Counsel Robert Mueller in January 2018 and June 2017.  These letters argue, essentially, that the president can't obstruct justice.
Marshall Cohen / CNN:
Trump lawyers say he ‘dictated’ statement on Trump Tower meeting, contradicting past denials
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: The Daily Caller
Chris Tomlinson / Breitbart:
Trump's Right Hand Man in Europe Rick Grenell Wants To ‘Empower’ European Conservatives  —  BERLIN, Germany: Trumpian U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell has expressed great excitement over the wave of conservatism in Europe, saying he wants to “empower” leaders of the movement.
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
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Oliver JJ Lane / Breitbart:   Exclusive — Grenell: NATO Allies Unprepared, Not Meeting Commitments
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 …
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Mark Osborne / ABC News:
FBI agent accidentally shoots bar patron when gun falls out of holster while dancing  —  An FBI agent got himself into an embarrassing situation on Saturday when his service weapon fell out of its holster while dancing at a Denver club and he accidentally shot a fellow patron while retrieving it.
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
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Roger Kimball / American Greatness:   A Clueless “Final Year”
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump's 500-day coup of the GOP, conservatism  —  Donald Trump has been President Trump for 500 days as of noon today.  Jonathan Swan writes that everything has changed, and nothing has changed.  —  Be smart: In 500 days, Trump's hijacking of the formerly conservative GOP is complete — an astonishing accomplishment.
CBS News:
Bill Clinton and James Patterson co-author a political beach read  —  A political thriller has to convincingly blend both fact and fiction, which is just what a certain debut novelist with plenty of White House experience says he has to offer.  He and his writing partner are talking with Mo Rocca:
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Luis Sanchez / The Hill:   Bill Clinton: I couldn't be elected now because I don't like embarrassing people
Derek Hunter / Townhall:
Liberals (Once Again) Exempt Themselves from the Rules  —  Imagine a scenario in which a woman posts a picture of herself with her son and people simply appreciate the expression of parental love.  Sounds nice, and rational, doesn't it?  Unfortunately, thanks to the liberal mob, nice and rational no longer exist in the public arena.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Instapundit
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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Samantha Bee will address vulgar comment about Ivanka Trump on her show
Discussion: twitchy.com and Mediaite
CNN:
Trump's man with the Singapore plan: Joe Hagin  —  (CNN)In the early days of the Iraq War, the director of the Secret Service was summoned to the White House Situation Room for a meeting with Joe Hagin, then serving as President George W. Bush's operations chief.
Discussion: FOX2now.com
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Michael Cohen's secret dream  —  On election night 2016, shortly after Donald Trump's team realized he would win the presidency, Michael Cohen told a handful of people on the 14th floor of Trump Tower about his own dreams for the future — to be mayor of New York.
Discussion: Mediaite
Katherine Lam / Fox News:
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to visit Kim Jong Un in North Korea, state media says  —  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will visit Kim Jong Un in North Korea's capital, the regime's state media announced Sunday, in what would be the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Josh Smith / Reuters:
Syria's Assad says will visit North Korea, news agency reports
Discussion: Axios, Washington Post and Politico
Washington Post:
North Korea reportedly wants a McDonald's. That could be a pretty big deal.
Discussion: twitchy.com and The Daily Caller
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Jon Tester, a Democrat in Deep-Red Montana, Isn't Sweating Trump's Threats  —  BIG SANDY, Mont. — Under a nearly cloudless sky on the sun-speckled northern prairie last Tuesday, Jon Tester, this state's senior senator, had his hands deep inside a 25-year-old grain auger.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Ali Watkins / New York Times:
When Guns Are Sold Illegally, A.T.F. Is Lenient on Punishment  —  WASHINGTON — As they inspect the nation's gun stores, federal investigators regularly find violations of the law, ranging from minor record-keeping errors to illegal sales of firearms.  In the most serious cases …
Cait Kelly / Daily Mail:
From gouging out his wife's eyes because she was ‘the Islamic anti-Christ’ to genital mutilation and a gruesome murder that left a corpse detectives could not identify: The case of the Melbourne jihadi that horrified even a supreme court judge  —  The identity of the man who slaughtered …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
NBC News:
Full Giuliani: ‘Could lead to impeachment’ if president stopped investigation of himself  — June 2, 2018 Full Trudeau: Canada and U.S. most successful alliance ‘in the history of the modern world’  — June 1, 2018 Meet the Midterms: Frontrunners emerge as California primary day nears
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Seth Masket / Vox:
We need to talk about the woke droid  —  Solo addressed the ugly metaphor at the center of the Star Wars universe — and not particularly well.  —  Minor spoiler for Solo below.  —  The very first Star Wars film (A New Hope, 1977) contained a few depictions of robots that look especially jarring with the passage of time.
Discussion: Daily Wire and Louder With Crowder
 
 
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The Times & The Sunday Times:
National Crime Agency ‘dirty money’ probe targets Russian oligarchs
Peter Swindon / HeraldScotland:
‘You will get your head chopped off’ - Scots Muslim writer threatened by extremists
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Fox News:
ISIS militants target family of 12 in northern Iraq attack
Discussion: Jihad Watch
John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump has spent more visiting Mar-a-Lago than Mueller has on Russia probe
Alexandra Alter / New York Times:
Want Michael Lewis's Next Book? You'll Have to Listen to It
Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal:
U.S., China End Latest Trade Talks Without Settlement
Lisa Senecal / The Daily Beast:
The NDA Protected Our Predator. I'm Breaking My Silence, Because Women Deserve Better.
 Earlier Items: 
Cora Engelbrecht / New York Times:
Fewer Immigrants Are Reporting Domestic Abuse. Police Blame Fear of Deportation.
Discussion: Splinter
Associated Press:
US singled out by G7 allies over steel and aluminum tariffs
Discussion: Axios and Politico
Politico:
GOP senators need an agenda — so they're doing a poll
Discussion: Daily Kos
Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
New Italian govt vows to create jobs, deport migrants
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Rick Klein / ABC News:
ANALYSIS: California's ‘jungle primary’ has unintended consequences for Democrats
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Trump thinks he's saving trade. The rest of the world thinks he's blowing it up.
Doree Lewak / New York Post:
Dating columnist reveals how ‘Sex and the City’ ruined her life