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6:35 PM ET, June 13, 2019

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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Sarah Sanders is leaving the White House  —  White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is leaving her post at the end of the month, President Trump announced on Twitter Thursday. … Why it matters: Sanders has long been one of President Trump's fiercest and most loyal defenders …
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CNN:
Sarah Sanders leaving White House post after fraught tenure  —  Washington (CNN)White House press secretary Sarah Sanders will leave her position at the end of the month, capping a tumultuous tenure as the President's chief spokeswoman in which she largely redefined the role.
Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Sarah Sanders to leave White House after turbulent ride  —  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, whose fierce loyalty to President Donald Trump and clashes with reporters defined her tenure, is stepping down at the end of the month.  —  The president announced her departure on Twitter Thursday afternoon.
Discussion: Axios, WNEP-TV, KTLA and The Gateway Pundit
Tasneem Nashrulla / BuzzFeed News:
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders Is Leaving The White House  —  Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the combative White House press secretary who unflappably defended President Donald Trump and followed his charge to discredit journalists who cover him, will leave the White House at the end of June, Trump tweeted Thursday.
Steven Overly / Politico:
Apple CEO Tim Cook meets with Trump as tariffs loom
Discussion: Axios
Lucien Bruggeman / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump reveals historic redesign of Air Force One  —  Less than a year after announcing a $3.9 billion makeover for America's most famous aircraft, President Donald Trump shared never-before-seen images of Air Force One's prospective redesign on Wednesday during an exclusive interview with ABC News.
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump rushes into damage control after saying he'd accept foreign help in 2020  —  President Donald Trump and his senior advisers moved quickly on Thursday to downplay and muddle his explosive assertion that he might not report to the FBI offers of election help from a foreign entity.
Ana Radelat / The CT Mirror:
Courtney foils Trump's red, white, blue Air Force One plan
Discussion: Politico
Washington Post:
Federal watchdog agency recommends removal of Kellyanne Conway from federal office for violating the Hatch Act  —  The Office of Special Counsel on Thursday recommended the removal of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway from federal office for violating the Hatch Act …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Is Urged to Fire Kellyanne Conway for Hatch Act Violations  —  WASHINGTON — An independent government agency recommended on Thursday that President Trump fire Kellyanne Conway, his White House counselor, for repeated violations of an ethics law barring partisan politics from the federal workplace.
Mad Dog PAC:
OSC Conway should be removed from her position forthwith
Discussion: Fox News
David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
California Democratic 2020 presidential primary is a wide-open race, poll finds … With the Democratic presidential field now largely set, the race in the nation's largest state is wide open, with at least five candidates in serious contention and no clear favorite.
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
How Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren Cracked the Code of the 2020 Race  —  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Pete Buttigieg ran through his stump speech (six minutes on generational change), tossed bean bags with activists (in front of as many cameras as Iowa voters), took seven questions from reporters …
Washington Post:
Oil tankers attacked in Gulf of Oman, U.S. Navy says  —  ISTANBUL — Two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman came under suspected attack early Thursday amid soaring tensions between the United States and Iran in the region.  —  One ship was adrift and on fire in the strategic waterway …
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The Daily Beast:
House Dems Do What They Do Best After Trump Invites Foreign Election Interference: Shrug  —  The party says the latest from the president is abhorrent and deeply, even legally, problematic.  They just aren't ready to do much more about it.  —  To a person, Democratic lawmakers said on Thursday …
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Heather Caygle / Politico:   Judiciary Committee lawmakers begin reviewing Mueller report evidence
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Majority of Democrats on House Judiciary Committee now back impeachment
Discussion: Breitbart and CBS News
Jeff Sommer / New York Times:
Social Security Is Staring at Its First Real Shortfall in Decades.  Big Cuts Could Follow.  —  A slow-moving crisis is approaching for Social Security, threatening to undermine a central pillar in the retirement of tens of millions of Americans.  —  Next year, for the first time since 1982 …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed News:
The Wife Of A Republican Congressman Accused Of Misusing Campaign Funds Just Flipped And Pleaded Guilty  —  The wife of California Rep. Duncan Hunter changed her plea from not guilty to guilty in a San Diego court Thursday, admitting that she and her husband misused more than $200,000 worth of campaign funds for personal gain.
Discussion: CNN and Daily Kos
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Charges dropped in Flint water scandal  —  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on criminal charges dropped in the Flint water scandal (all times local):  —  Prosecutors say they're dismissing all criminal charges against eight people in the Flint water scandal and starting the investigation over again.
Discussion: Detroit Free Press and The Week
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Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Flint Water Crisis: Prosecutors Drop All Criminal Charges
Discussion: Fox News
Center for Public Integrity:
Why the Trump campaign won't pay police bills  —  “Do we love law enforcement or what?”  President Donald Trump asked a cheering crowd during his “Make America Great Again” political rally Oct. 12 in Lebanon, Ohio.  —  “Thank you, law enforcement!” the president later told officers, who he called “heroes.”
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Oberlin College hit with maximum PUNITIVE DAMAGES (capped at $22 million by law) in Gibson's Bakery case  —  Added to $11 million compensatory damages, brings total to $33 million  —  The jury just rendered its verdict on punitive damages in the Gibson's Bakery v. Oberlin College case.
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Senator says South Dakota lost half a billion dollars from Trump's trade war  —  Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.C.) told Axios' Mike Allen on Thursday that President Trump's trade war with China has caused the price of his state's soybeans to plummet 20%, costing South Dakota half a billion dollars.
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Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN:
First on CNN Business: 600 companies including Walmart, Costco and Target warn Trump on tariffs
Discussion: KTVQ-TV
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Manchin eyes Senate exit  —  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is eyeing a possible exit from the Senate, and his decision could be a significant factor in which party controls the majority in 2021.  —  In moments of frustration, the centrist senator has gone so far as to tell colleagues he may leave …
Pramila Jayapal / New York Times:
Rep. Pramila Jayapal: The Story of My Abortion  —  What it taught me about the deeply personal nature of reproductive choice.  —  Ms. Jayapal is a Democratic congresswoman.  —  I call my child a miracle.  Born unexpectedly in India at 26.5 weeks, shortly before I was due to come …
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Republican blocks bill requiring campaigns to alert FBI to foreign assistance  —  Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) blocked an effort by Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) to pass a bill via unanimous consent requiring campaigns to report any offers of foreign assistance to the FBI.  Blackburn did not explain her objection.
Discussion: Political Wire and Daily Kos
Raphael Satter / Associated Press:
Experts: Spy used AI-generated face to connect with targets  —  LONDON (AP) — Katie Jones sure seemed plugged into the Washington's political scene.  The 30-something redhead boasted a job at a top think tank and a who's-who network of pundits and experts, from the centrist Brookings Institution to the right-wing Heritage Foundation.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Mashable and The Verge
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
House Republicans try to spin Trump's foreign dirt comment  —  Amid blistering bipartisan criticism of President Donald Trump's willingness to accept dirt on his 2020 rivals from foreign adversaries, House Republicans decided Thursday that they had found the real culprit: Democrats.
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
DNC names 20 candidates who will appear on stage for first Democratic debate  —  The Democratic National Committee set two ways for the candidates to qualify — fundraising and polling.  —  The Democratic National Committee on Thursday named the 20 presidential candidates who qualified …
Discussion: News Breaking and The Week
NBC News:
Anita Hill on whether she'd vote for Biden over Trump  —  In an exclusive interview with Andrea Mitchell, Anita Hill weighs in on Joe Biden's run for the presidency.  Watch the interview tonight on “NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt” at 6:30 p.m. ET / 5:30 p.m. CT.
The Daily Beast:
House Dems Fear Retaliation as They Ready Investigation of Elaine Chao  —  A probe into the transportation secretary now seems inevitable.  But some lawmakers are scared about what that means for infrastructure projects in their districts.  —  House Democrats are poised to launch …
Discussion: Washington Times
Peter Hamby / Vanity Fair:
“WHAT CAN YOU SAY IN 60 SECONDS?”:  AS THE FIRST DEBATE LOOMS, DEMOCRATS PREPARE TO FACE REALITY  —  It's taken as an article of faith inside network greenrooms that the primary debates will shake up the race, ushering in a kinetic new phase of candidate-on-candidate warfare.
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Brace for a Voter-Turnout Tsunami  —  Signs are growing that voter turnout in 2020 could reach the highest levels in decades—if not the highest in the past century—with a surge of new voters potentially producing the most diverse electorate in American history.
 
 
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