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9:50 AM ET, June 21, 2019

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New York Times:
Trump Approves Strikes on Iran, but Then Abruptly Pulls Back  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump approved military strikes against Iran in retaliation for downing an American surveillance drone, but pulled back from launching them on Thursday night after a day of escalating tensions.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
For Trump, ‘Judgment Time Is Coming’ on How to Respond to Iran  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump's tenure as commander in chief came to a dramatic turning point on Thursday night as he found himself torn between his own competing advisers and his own competing instincts …
Newsweek:
Donald Trump Decided to Strike Iranian Missile System, Then Changed His Mind  —  An ordered military operation against military targets in Iran was called off in the early stages on Thursday, though the reason for holding the strike remains unclear.  —  As reported by the New York Times …
Washington Post:
The U.S. should strive for a stable Iran. Instead, it is suffocating it.
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's Iran strikes U-turn underscores war and peace dilemma
Discussion: The Guardian, Breitbart and Al Jazeera
Fox News:
US called off retaliatory strike against Iran in last minute: source
Bill Gertz / Washington Free Beacon:
U.S. Expected to Strike Back for Iran's Downing of Drone
Associated Press:
Migrant children describe neglect at Texas border facility  —  EL PASO, Texas (AP) — A 2-year-old boy locked in detention wants to be held all the time.  A few girls, ages 10 to 15, say they've been doing their best to feed and soothe the clingy toddler who was handed to them by a guard days ago.
Discussion: Shareblue Media, CNN, The Week, Axios and KQED
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Associated Press:
Lawyers claim infants, children are in dangerous situation at border detention site  —  “In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention I have never heard of this level of inhumanity,” said an attorney representing the detained youth.  —  EL PASO, Texas (AP) …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:   Trump Bets We'll Stop Caring About Migrant Kids
Clara Long / Human Rights Watch:
Children at Risk in US Border Jails
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Politico:
Dems see Hope Hicks testimony as huge gift in legal battle with Trump  —  In an exclusive interview, Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler also said Democrats would soon sue former White House Counsel Don McGahn.  —  House Democrats are planning to file a lawsuit within days to force former White …
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David Morgan / Reuters:
Hicks told House panel Trump is serious about foreign help in elections  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hope Hicks, once a close aide to President Donald Trump, told the House Judiciary Committee that Trump was serious in saying there was nothing wrong in accepting derogatory information …
Sarah Cammarata / Politico:
Trump is bringing a Ferris wheel back to the White House
Washington Post:
Tensions ripple through Biden campaign as his past working relationship with a segregationist senator comes to the forefront  —  Joe Biden was a freshman senator, the youngest member of the august body, when he reached out to an older colleague for help on one of his early legislative proposals …
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Biden called Booker to quell tensions. Things only got worse
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
John F. Harris / Politico:
Grampa Simpson runs for president
Discussion: RedState and Washington Monthly
Rick Klein / ABC News:
The Note: 2020 race testing Joe Biden at sore spots
Discussion: Power Line
Maxwell Strachan / HuffPost:
Some White House Reporters Are Throwing Sarah Huckabee Sanders A Goodbye Party  —  White House correspondents and some Trump staffers plan to send Sanders off with “farewell drinks” next week.  —  Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the reporters who cover the White House haven't always had the smoothest relationship.
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Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:   After Crying ‘Fake News’ For Years, Sanders Is Getting A Party — Thrown By Reporters
Fin Gomez / CBS News:   Sarah Sanders' allies commissioned poll for potential run for Arkansas governor
Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
Ending Private Prisons and Exploitation for Profit  —  Last month Caliburn International — a for-profit company whose subsidiary operates Homestead, the largest detention center for unaccompanied migrant children —  hired John Kelly, Trump's former chief of staff.
Discussion: Mother Jones and CNN
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Gideon Resnick / The Daily Beast:
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Ban Private Prisons: They Have ‘No Place in America’
Discussion: Politico
Daniel Chaitin / Washington Examiner:
NYT reporter flagged Jared Kushner meetings with Russians to FBI  —  A New York Times reporter fed information about Jared Kushner meeting with Russians to the FBI, newly released emails show.  —  Journalist Michael Schmidt sent an email on March 24, 2017, to FBI Assistant Director …
Discussion: Power Line
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Laura Ingraham Dismisses Reparations: 'No Do-Overs...We Won, You Lost, That's That'  —  “As Trump always says, 'you don't get do-overs,' she declared. ”  No do-overs, that's it.  Fox News star Laura Ingraham waded into the ongoing debate over reparations for descendants of slaves during …
Wall Street Journal:
Prosecutors Intensify Scrutiny of Trump Fundraiser Elliott Broidy  —  Federal probe examines foreigners who attended inauguration at invitation of top Trump fundraiser  —  Federal prosecutors have stepped up a criminal investigation into possible efforts by longtime Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy …
Discussion: Political Wire
Donald Trump / TIME:
Donald Trump's Interview With TIME on 2020: Read the Transcript  —  President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with TIME in the Oval Office on June 17 for a story on his re-election campaign.  —  During the 57-minute conversation, he discussed his Democratic rivals …
Discussion: Splinter, The Week, Hullabaloo, Politico and CNN
Nicole Goodkind / Newsweek:
Trump Administration Argues Detained Migrant Children Don't Need Toothbrushes, Soap  —  The Trump administration went to court this week to argue that migrant children detained at the United States-Mexico border do not require basic hygiene products like soap and toothbrushes in order to be in held in “safe and sanitary” conditions.
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
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Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Trump Administration to Migrant Kids: No Soap for You!
Discussion: Splinter and ImmigrationProf Blog
Chris Lehman / Oregonian:
Oregon governor sends police to find missing Republicans, bring them to Capitol  —  Oregon's Democratic governor, Kate Brown, has dispatched state troopers to find missing Republican senators and bring them back to Salem to legislate.  —  All 11 Republican senators are in hiding …
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John McCormick / Wall Street Journal:
Americans Aren't Sure U.S. System Can Fix Long-Term Problems, Poll Finds  —  A majority believes the nation's best years are in the past  —  Americans have little faith the U.S. political system can address long-term challenges and are skeptical the nation remains committed to foundational tenets …
Discussion: Political Wire
Axios:
Trump isn't matching Obama deportation numbers  —  Immigration and Customs Enforcement has deported more immigrants this fiscal year than any full fiscal year of Donald Trump's presidency, but it has yet to reach Barack Obama's early deportation levels, according to new internal Department of Homeland Security figures obtained by Axios.
Discussion: National Review and Political Wire
Tyler Bridges / www.theadvocate.com:
Support for Trump in Louisiana plunges, poll says; here's how this could help Gov. John Bel Edwards  —  A clear majority of Louisiana voters don't want Donald Trump to win a second term as president, an independent poll shows.  —  The survey by pollster Verne Kennedy also shows …
Discussion: Political Wire
Olivia Gazis / CBS News:
Justice Dept review of intel in Russia probe fuels fears of politicization  —  A mix of concern, confusion and defiance has spread through elements of the intelligence community as a murky picture emerges of Attorney General William Barr's review of its investigative and analytical work …
 
 
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Washington Post:
NRA sidelines its top lobbyist, Chris Cox, in latest sign of internal turmoil
Max Boot / Washington Post:
Marco Rubio's humiliating transformation into a Trump fan-boy is complete
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Washington Post:
When Trump visits his clubs, government agencies and Republicans pay to be where he is
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Roger Stone violated gag order with social media posts, prosecutors say
Burgess Everett / Politico:
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David Axe / The Daily Beast:
The U.S. Drone Shot Down by Iran Is a $200 Million Prototype Spy Plane
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