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Erin Banco / The Daily Beast:
Rex Tillerson Secretly Meets With House Foreign Affairs Committee to Talk Trump  —  The former Secretary of State is talking with lawmakers at the same time virtually everyone else who worked for the president is defying Congress.  —  Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was spotted entering …
Discussion: CNN, Politico, POLITICUSUSA, Vox and Mediaite
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Washington Post:
Mueller and House Democrats at impasse over how much of his testimony would be public  —  Robert S. Mueller III and House Democrats have been unable to reach an agreement on how much of the special counsel's expected congressional testimony would be public, and how much would take place in private …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A top Democrat warns: If we don't confront Trump, he'll grow more lawless  —  House Democrats are embroiled in an increasingly intense debate over whether to launch an impeachment inquiry into President Trump, an outcome that appears to be growing harder for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to resist.
CNN:
House panel issues subpoenas for Hope Hicks, Annie Donaldson  —  (CNN)The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday issued subpoenas to former White House officials Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson for documents and testimony, setting the stage for another clash with the White House over former officials appearing before Congress.
Discussion: Washington Press
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
House Democrats pushing back on DOJ offer for limited Mueller testimony
Laura Jarrett / CNN:
First on CNN: Justice Department willing to hand over counterintelligence if Schiff backs off ‘enforcement action’
Discussion: Axios
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Tillerson meets for seven hours with House Foreign Affairs Committee
Discussion: Splinter
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Here's what the House Judiciary Committee should do
Discussion: CNN, Just Security and Balloon Juice
The Daily Beast:   House Democrats Subpoena Hope Hicks
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
DOJ offers House Intel some Mueller materials if Schiff drops Barr threat
Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
I Watched 20 Hours of Robert Mueller Testifying. Here's What Congress Would Be In For.
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Confidential draft IRS memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless president invokes executive privilege  —  A confidential Internal Revenue Service legal memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless the president takes the rare step of asserting executive privilege …
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Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
We don't know what Trump's tax returns are hiding. But the hints are troubling.
Discussion: Raw Story, Shareblue Media and The Week
QU Poll:
Release Detail  —  May 21, 2019 - Good Feelings On Economy Don't Help Trump, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Biden Is Only Contender With Positive Score  —  The nation's economy is “excellent,” 22 percent of American voters say in a Quinnipiac University National Poll today, the highest “excellent” rating for the economy.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Brutal new 2020 numbers for Beto O'Rourke and Bill de Blasio  —  The New York mayor's net approval is worse than Trump's.  —  From a distance, Quinnipiac University's new national poll looking at the 2020 Democratic primary looks fairly familiar.  There's former vice president Joe Biden atop the field …
Discussion: The Week
Karen Heller / Washington Post:
How San Francisco broke America's heart  —  SAN FRANCISCO — A Tuesday afternoon in the Mission District of America's tech wonderland.  —  Michael Feno stands outside Lucca Ravioli, his beloved pasta emporium on Valencia, a vestige of old San Francisco, puffing on a cigar while posing for pictures, his customers in tears.
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Evan Sernoffsky / San Francisco Chronicle:
Adachi leak: SF cops seek to justify raid on journalist, citing conspiracy probe  —  Under fire for raiding the home and office of a freelance journalist who refused to identify a confidential source, San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott sought Tuesday to justify the action by saying …
Washington Post:
Despite national security concerns, GOP leader McCarthy blocked bipartisan bid to limit China's role in U.S. transit  —  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) blocked a bipartisan attempt to limit Chinese companies from contracting with U.S. transit systems, a move that benefited …
Discussion: Shareblue Media
Washington Post:
Appeals court refuses to stay Mueller grand jury subpoena for Roger Stone associate Andrew Miller  —  A federal appeals court Tuesday refused to block a grand jury subpoena for testimony by Roger Stone associate Andrew Miller in an investigation launched by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III …
Katy O'Donnell / Politico:
Ben Carson confuses a real-estate term and a cookie  —  Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson tussled awkwardly with freshman Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) at a hearing on Tuesday over HUD real estate owned — or REO — homes, at one point asking if she was referring to an “Oreo.”
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump campaign and Senate GOP clash over president's pollster  —  A top strategist on President Donald Trump's reelection campaign has withdrawn from an effort to unseat North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis in 2020 — an arrangement that sparked tensions at the highest levels of the Republican Party.
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Sabrina Rodriguez / Politico:   Senate GOP trade hopes renewed after Trump lifts steel tariffs
New York Times:
Trump Expected to Pick Ken Cuccinelli for Immigration Policy Role  —  President Trump is expected to name Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, a former attorney general of Virginia and an immigration hard-liner, as his choice to coordinate the administration's immigration policies, a White House official confirmed on Tuesday.
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Why aren't Trump and Republicans pilloried for failing to ‘reach out’?  —  The presidential campaign has begun, which means that Democrats are being asked again and again why they aren't doing more to “reach out” to Republicans.  But there's something important missing from this discussion …
Rahm Emanuel / The Atlantic:
It's Time to Hold American Elites Accountable for Their Abuses  —  Normally, a scandal centered on how rich parents used bribes to win their children's admittance into elite colleges wouldn't play so heavily in the national news.  No one much cared when Donald Trump promised large donations as his children enrolled at Penn.
Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
Parents are poisoning their children with bleach to ‘cure’ autism.  These moms are trying to stop it.  —  Private Facebook groups urge parents to poison autistic kids with chlorine dioxide to “cure” them.  These moms are going undercover to fight back.  —  When they aren't working …
Allan Smith / NBC News:
New York lawmakers pass bill aimed at weakening Trump's pardon power  —  The measure, which creates a narrow exception to the state's double jeopardy law, now goes to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's desk.  —  New York state lawmakers passed a measure Tuesday that would allow prosecutors …
Discussion: Axios
John Solomon / The Hill:
Christopher Steele's nugget of fool's gold was easily disproven — but FBI didn't blink an eye  —  Of all the wild tales that Christopher Steele spun about Russia-Trump collusion during a visit to the State Department shortly before the 2016 election, only one was deemed worth forwarding to his FBI handlers.
New York Times:
Trump Supported Changing New York G.O.P. Leader  —  Edward F. Cox, a son-in-law of Richard Nixon, had fallen out of favor with President Trump, and will be replaced by Nick Langworthy, an early Trump supporter.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer De Pinto / CBS News:
Majority of Americans don't want Roe v. Wade overturned, CBS News poll finds  —  Two-thirds of Americans want Roe v. Wade left in place, and most who hold that view would be disappointed or angry if the ruling were to be overturned someday, a new CBS News poll finds.
Discussion: The Week, Splinter and Political Wire
BBC:
Austria's far-right Freedom Party ministers all resign amid scandal  —  All ministers from Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) are resigning, throwing the government into chaos.  —  The Freedom Party's leader Heinz-Christian Strache, who was also vice-chancellor, was forced to resign at the weekend after a video sting.
Chris Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Cannes: Sci-Fi Film Poster Features Decapitated Donald Trump Head in MAGA Hat  —  The B-movie-style one-sheet shows a woman holding two decapitated heads, including one that looks like the commander-in-chief wearing his signature campaign headgear.  —  When a photograph of Kathy Griffin holding …
Julie Bykowicz / Wall Street Journal:
Legal Fees Mount for Republican Party, Trump Campaign  —  Filings show RNC spent $2.2 million in April for lawyers' work  —  WASHINGTON—The Republican National Committee spent about $2.2 million last month on legal fees, new financial filings show, boosting the overall tab for lawyers paid by the party …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Amash won't rule out Libertarian challenge to Trump  —  Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) on Tuesday said he would not rule out a third-party challenge to President Trump in 2020.  —  The Hill asked Amash if he is thinking about leaving the Republican Party to run for president as the Libertarian Party candidate.
Discussion: IJR and Daily Wire
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Albany Closes a Loophole for Trump Pardons.  Next Up: His Taxes.  —  The Legislature is poised to pass a bill that would allow three congressional committees to seek the release of President Trump's state tax returns.  —  [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
Trump jokingly suggests serving as many as five terms  —  President Trump joked at a campaign rally on Monday that he could serve as many as five terms in the White House.  —  “Now we're going to have a second time,” Trump said in Montoursville, Pa., recounting the details of his surprise election victory in 2016.
Warren M. Hern / New York Times:
Pregnancy Kills.  Abortion Saves Lives.  —  Every pregnancy poses a “serious health risk” to the mother.  —  Dr. Hern is a physician and epidemiologist who specializes in late-abortion services.  —  Pregnancy is a life-threatening condition.  Women die from being pregnant.
Amy Russo / HuffPost:
GOP Senator Says Trump's Trade War Has Farmers On ‘Verge Of Financial Collapse’  —  Jerry Moran of Kansas urged Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to find a better response than unreliable government aid.  —  Republican Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas raised dire concerns over the Trump …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
BuzzFeed News:
New Transcripts Say That Trump Crafted Michael Cohen's Lies More Closely Than Was Previously Known  —  Gathered in the Oval Office in May 2017, President Donald Trump and two of his lawyers, Michael Cohen and Jay Sekulow, huddled to shape Cohen's impending testimony before Congress.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
John Nichols / The Nation:
Ilhan Omar: 'There's a Reason That I Got Elected to Be in Congress and It Has Nothing to Do With the Fact That I'm a Refugee'  —  On the first episode of our new podcast, Next Left, we talk to the trailblazing politician about how she went from refugee to US Representative.
Jerry Taylor / The Bulwark:
What Changed My Mind About Climate Change?  —  Risk management is not a binary choice.  —  I spent the better part of my professional life (1991-2014) working at a libertarian think tank—the Cato Institute—arguing against climate action.  As Cato's director of Natural Resource Studies …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Saudi Arabia and UAE to attend Trump's “economic workshop”  —  Representatives from two wealthy Gulf states, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, announced on Tuesday that they will attend the economic gathering next month to roll out President Trump's Middle East peace plan.
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David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
The Conventional Wisdom About Millennial Suffering Is A Myth
Discussion: Reason and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
U.S. Officials Work to Convince Divided Congress of Iran Threat
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Avenatti Says He Expects Indictment in New York Within 48 Hours
Paul Szoldra / Task & Purpose:
Former Marine Commandant tells Trump that pardoning troops accused of war crimes ‘relinquishes the moral high ground’
Matthew Sheffield / The Hill:
Most Americans support inquiry into FBI decisions to monitor former Trump campaign officials: poll
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jose A. Del Real / New York Times:
They Grow the Nation's Food, but They Can't Drink the Water
Sarah Ferris / Politico:
Vulnerable Democrats split as impeachment pressure mounts
 Earlier Items: 
Bruce Schlesman / Judicial Watch:
Judge Orders Antifa Activist Yvette Felarca to Pay Judicial Watch Legal Fees for Her ‘Entirely Frivolous’ Lawsuit
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Flynn opposes further release of documents related to his plea for lying to FBI
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Numbers from New Q Poll
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Jeff Stein / Newsweek:
Pete Buttigieg explains how serving in Afghanistan helped his rise to improbable 2020 presidential contender
Sarah Mervosh / New York Times:
Both Parents Are American. The U.S. Says Their Baby Isn't.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Washington Post:
A conservative activist's behind-the-scenes campaign to remake the nation's courts
Discussion: twitchy.com and Splinter