memeorandum: Papadopoulos Was Approached By ‘Highly Suspicous’ Businessmen, His Wife Claims (Chuck Ross/The Daily Caller)

10:25 AM ET, June 7, 2018

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Eliana Johnson / Politico:

Trump and Bolton spurn top-level North Korea planning — After two months on the job, Trump's new national security adviser has not called a single top-level National Security Council meeting on North Korea. — National Security Adviser John Bolton has yet to convene a Cabinet-level meeting …

Discussion: Reuters, New York Magazine, The Week, The American Conservative, Outside the Beltway and One America News Network

Washington Post:

Trump complains about traveling to Canada ahead of Singapore summit with Kim — President Trump is planning to fly to Canada on Friday. He is not exactly happy about it. — The president has vented privately about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as their trade tensions have spilled into public view.

Discussion: Splinter and iPolitics

Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:

Democrats Childishly Resist Trump's North Korea Efforts — Shock! Horror! President Trump is actually doing something right. — Sadly, Democrats in Congress are responding in a quite Trumpian way: They seem more concerned with undermining him than supporting a peace process with North Korea.

Discussion: New Republic

The Daily Beast:
Trump Has Weighed Golfing With Kim Jong Un if Singapore Summit Goes Well

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Josh Rogin / Washington Post: Trump still holds Jimmy Carter's view on withdrawing U.S. troops from South Korea

Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump and Kim could meet for second day in Singapore

Discussion: Foreign Policy, The Hill and Wall Street Journal

Politico:

Another mess for Pruitt: Overstaying his White House welcome at lunch — Too many visits for lunch at the Mess earned a rebuke from the White House. — EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt loves eating at the White House mess, an exclusive U.S. Navy-run restaurant open only to White House officials, Cabinet members and other dignitaries.

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Mike Sielski / Philly.com:
Eagles' Pederson on cancelled White House visit: 'I'm not discussing, it's over'

Discussion: SBNation.com, Hot Air, ThinkProgress and Mediaite

Washington Post:
Joseph Hagin, point person on Korea summit, plans to leave White House soon

Discussion: Breitbart

Elaina Plott / The Atlantic:
Pruitt Aide Resigns Amid Scandals

Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Trump holds first Iftar amid tense relations with Muslim American community

Discussion: Jihad Watch, Breitbart, Politico, HuffPost, Associated Press and Axios

Mark Murray / NBC News:

Poll: Economic satisfaction under Trump isn't helping his party's 2018 chances — By a whopping 25-point margin, voters say they're more likely to back a congressional candidate who promises to serve as a check on President Donald Trump, according to a new national poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.

Discussion: Politico, Raw Story, Daily Caller News Foundation, Joe.My.God., The Week and Political Wire

John Harwood / CNBC:

More Americans are crediting Trump with the stronger economy, but that isn't helping the GOP with voters: NBC/WSJ poll — A new poll found that seven in 10 voters say the economy has improved under the Trump administration. — But the survey found that respondents favored Democrats …

Discussion: Blue Virginia and NTK Network

Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal: Democrats' Interest in Midterm Elections Running Ahead of Republicans'

Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:

Foreign leaders who embraced Trump now feel burned — Trump's overseas friends are learning the hard way that handshakes and golf games can't convince Trump not to smack would-be allies. — Call it friends without benefits. — Foreign leaders are learning that hand-holding, golf games …

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Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg:
France Warns Trump It Won't Sign a G-7 Statement

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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Inside the House GOP's big immigration meeting

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Sarah Jones / New Republic:
John Conyers's Medicare for All bill gains steam in the wake of Trumpcare's failure.

Discussion: The Hill, CNBC and The American Spectator

CNN:
Exclusive: Trump invokes War of 1812 in testy call with Trudeau over tariffs

Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:

Lou Dobbs and Rep. Gaetz Trash ‘Disaster’ Paul Ryan: ‘Get the Hell Out of the Office’ — If you thought SpyGate on Fox News primetime was lit, take a gander over at what's happening on Fox Business Network, where host Lou Dobbs is truly wilding on a nightly basis.

Discussion: Shareblue Media, Politico, MSNBC and CNBC

Rachael Bade / Politico:

GOP congressman blasts Trump's spy conspiracy — Rep. Tom Rooney, a top Republican lawmaker on the House Intelligence Committee, is ripping President Donald Trump's unsupported claim that the FBI inserted a spy inside his campaign. — “What is the point of saying that there was a spy in the campaign when there was none?”

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CNN:
From Reddit to Trump: How the President latched onto a conspiracy theory

Discussion: Vox and ThinkProgress

Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:

In private FEMA remarks, Trump's focus strays from hurricanes — The meeting was supposed to be about hurricane preparedness, as disaster officials gathered at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters days after the start of the 2018 season. — But President Trump had a lot else on his mind …

Discussion: Axios, Talking Points Memo, MSNBC, Joe.My.God. and Mother Jones

Charles Robinson / Yahoo! Sports:

Sources: Colin Kaepernick's legal team expected to subpoena President Trump in case against NFL — After months of circling President Donald Trump during NFL depositions and discovery, Colin Kaepernick's lawyers are expected to force Trump directly into the ongoing legal battle between the quarterback and league.

Discussion: ProFootballTalk, theGrio, Axios and The Daily Caller

Berkeley Lovelace Jr / CNBC:

US strikes a deal with China's ZTE to end crippling sanctions, Commerce Secretary Ross says — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the U.S. has struck a deal with Chinese telecom giant ZTE to end crippling American sanctions. — Commerce said the deal includes a $1 billion penalty …

Discussion: CNNMoney, The Hill, National Review, Politico, Bloomberg, NPR, The Daily Caller and Engadget, more at Techmeme »

Max Greenwood / The Hill:

Fox's Hannity sarcastically advises witnesses in Mueller probe to 'follow Clinton's lead' and destroy their phones — Fox News host Sean Hannity on his show Wednesday night sarcastically advised witnesses in special counsel Robert Mueller — 's investigation to “follow Hillary Clinton

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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is requesting that witnesses turn in their personal phones …

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Reuters: Lawyer to ex-Trump campaign aide Manafort taps ethics adviser

CNN:

Giuliani defends comments about Stormy Daniels' credibility — Giuliani: Melania believes Trump over Daniels — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, said Thursday he stands by his recent comments that adult film actress Stormy Daniels has no credibility because of her profession.

Discussion: Mother Jones, Raw Story, FOX 61, KTLA, Business Insider, Globes Online and Washington Times

Jacob Shamsian / Business Insider:
Rudy Giuliani danced to EDM at a restaurant in Israel, and, well, you just need to see it

Discussion: Daily Caller News Foundation, Politico, Associated Press and The Daily Caller

Alicia H. Munnell / Politico:

Millennials and retirement: How bad is it? — Today's young adults are falling behind but there's a way they can catch up. … Concern about the financial health of America's younger generations is growing—especially millennials, a demographic boom that came of age in an environment …

Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:

Papadopoulos Was Approached By ‘Highly Suspicous’ Businessmen, His Wife Claims — A dossier source allegedly offered Papadopoulos $30,000 a month to work from inside Trump administration — In the wake of the revelation that an FBI informant lured George Papadopoulos to London during the 2016 campaign …

Discussion: Daily Wire, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Monthly and The Federalist

Erik Larson / Bloomberg:

Judge Calls Trump's Border Separations of Children ‘Brutal’ — ACLU lawsuit is allowed to proceed in San Diego federal court — Administration says policy helps prosecute undocumented adults — The Trump administration failed to kill a legal challenge to its practice …

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and HuffPost

Andrew Freedman / Axios:

Mapped: Global temperatures since 1880 — Every area of the globe has warmed since instrument records began in 1880, NASA data shows. The planet isn't warming equally, however — the fastest temperature increases are taking place at the poles. That Arctic, for example …

Renae Merle / Washington Post:

Mick Mulvaney fires all 25 members of consumer watchdog's advisory board — Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, fired the agency's 25-member advisory board Wednesday, days after some of its members criticized his leadership of the watchdog agency.

Discussion: Townhall, Daily Caller News Foundation and Consumer Financial …

Liz Robbins / New York Times:

He Delivered Pizza to an Army Base in Brooklyn. Now He Faces Deportation. — Food delivery. Sanctuary. Those are often the anchors for the more than half a million undocumented immigrants who live and work in New York City. — But an incident at the United States Army base in Fort Hamilton …

Discussion: Axios

Washington Post:

Does Google think it's better than the U.S. military? — Giving in to pressure from its workforce, Google recently announced that it is pulling out of Project Maven, a groundbreaking Pentagon program to harness artificial intelligence to sift through and interpret video imagery from drones.

Discussion: Stanford Daily

New York Times:

A Medical Mystery Grows as U.S. Consulate Workers in China Fall Ill — GUANGZHOU, China — A crisis over a mysterious ailment sickening American diplomats and their families — which began in Cuba and recently appeared in China — widened on Wednesday. The State Department evacuated at least …

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, CNN, Washington Post, Task & Purpose, New York Magazine, VICE News, HuffPost, NBC News, KTLA, Gizmodo and The Daily Caller

Houston Chronicle:

Trump: Many Texans watched Harvey from their boats, requiring Coast Guard rescue — AUSTIN — President Donald Trump praised the Coast Guard for its heroics during Hurricane Harvey Wednesday, but credited the high number of water rescues to people taking their boats out to watch the storm roll in, baffling first responders.

Discussion: CNN and The Texas Tribune

Christoph Koettl / New York Times:

What We Learned From the Videos of Stephon Clark Being Killed by Police — The visual investigations team at The New York Times examines the world through the lens of video footage and other types of open-source evidence. Using everything from satellite images and audio waveforms to metadata …

Wall Street Journal:

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Washington Post:

This Ohio factory thought it could bring U.S. jobs back from China. Then Trump got involved. — By David J. Lynch June 6 at 5:30 PM Email the author — CLEVELAND — Bill Adler was invited last year to bid on a contract to make commercial sausage stuffers for a company that wanted to replace its Chinese supplier.