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*Monday, June 25, 2018 8:00 AM EDT*
Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden In Copenhagen: “Demagogues And Charlatans” Stoking Fear On
Immigration. <#S1>

• Human Rights Campaign Press Secretary: Biden Would Be “An Amazing
President.” <#S2>

• Brower: Biden Says He “Fell On His Sword” In Aftermath Of Bin Laden Raid.
<#S3>

• Biden Noted As One Of Former Obama Team Members Who’ve Released Memoirs.
<#S4>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Calls For Denying Due Process To Immigrants Who Illegally Cross
Border. <#S5>

• McCaul: Trump Still “100 Percent” Behind House Bill. <#S6>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Kushner: US Will Release Mideast Peace Plan With Or Without Palestinian
Input. <#S7>

• Erdoğan Declares Victory In Turkish National Elections. <#S8>

• WPost: Logistical Problems May Impede NATO In Russia Conflict. <#S9>

• Trump Calls On Countries To Remove “Artificial Trade Barriers And
Tariffs.” <#S10>

• Trump Criticizes Media Coverage Of North Korea Summit. <#S11>

• UN Official Urges US To Reconsider Its Position On Human Rights Council.
<#S12>

• European Leaders Discuss Migrant Crisis, But Remain Divided. <#S13>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Warner: “Buckle Up” For More Revelations From Mueller. <#S14>

• Parents Of Unarmed Teen Shot By Pittsburgh Police Say Son Was Murdered.
<#S15>

• Politico: ACA Plan Premium Increases Could Hurt GOP In Midterms. <#S16>

• WPost A1: Facebook Intensifies Campaign Against Election Misinformation.
<#S17>

• Ethics Watchdogs Warn Administration Over Politicizing Presidential Coins.
<#S18>

• DC Council To Consider Lowering Voting Age To 16. <#S19>

• Student Debt Forgiveness Could Result In Large One-Time Tax Bills For
Borrowers. <#S20>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• FDA To Review Combination Treatment For Lung Cancer. <#S21>

• Researchers Discover Compound That Could Stop Cancer Cells From Spreading.
<#S22>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S23>

• Washington Post. <#S24>
Biden in the News
Biden In Copenhagen: “Demagogues And Charlatans” Stoking Fear On
Immigration.

The Guardian (UK)
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(6/22, Wintour) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden, speaking
last week at a conference in Copenhagen, “accused ‘demagogues and
charlatans’ of stirring up voters’ fears just as they did in the 1930s as
the issue of migration convulses politics on both sides of the Atlantic.”
Without mentioning President Trump by name, Biden “linked his
anti-immigrant drive and that of European populists and the far right to
pre-war fascists who were willing to create scapegoats to retain their grip
on power.” Said Biden, “In ways that evoke memories of the 30s, frustrated
and disaffected voters may turn instead to strongmen. Demagogues and
charlatans step up to stoke people’s legitimate fears and push the blame
always on the other. There always has to be scapegoats. Now it is
immigrants, the outsider, the other.” Drawing from the Guardian story,
Newsmax
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(6/22, Hoffman) briefly reported on Biden’s remarks, and added that he “is
heading the recently-formed Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity,
in a bid to stop election tampering.”
Human Rights Campaign Press Secretary: Biden Would Be “An Amazing
President.”

Human Rights Campaign national press secretary Sarah McBride was asked
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Philadelphia (6/24) whether she thinks former Vice President Joe Biden will
mount a 2020 White House run. McBride responded, “Potentially. I think Joe
Biden is someone who has been a fierce champion of equality. He is someone
who obviously spoke out early for marriage equality. Beau Biden, his son,
was a great ally in our efforts in Delaware. And I think Joe Biden
certainly kept that legacy moving forward – both his own legacy and Beau’s
legacy after Beau’s passing. But i think he might run. I think he would be
an amazing candidate and an amazing president. I think there are a number
of wonderful people that are considering it. But I hope to see a number of
people enter the arena in that fight and Joe Biden would be a great voice
in it.”
Brower: Biden Says He “Fell On His Sword” In Aftermath Of Bin Laden Raid.

“First in Line” author Kate Andersen Brower on Sunday appeared on C-SPAN’s
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(6/24), where she said of the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound, “I talked
with Joe Biden about it, and he had said he was against the raid because
they weren’t clear enough that if it was definitely bin Laden, and that a
lot of people in the room were against it. In fact...many people have said
Hillary Clinton was also not as supportive of the raid as she later said
she was. But Joe Biden...fell on his sword, he says. He wanted to make it
clear that this was a decision that President Obama made. And he realized
that it could break bad for him, because it came out in the press that he
didn’t support the raid, which was of course a big success.”

*Brower: Biden, Obama Eventually Had “Unprecedented”
Relationship. *During
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(6/24), Brower also discussed the relationship between Biden and Obama,
saying that Vice Presidents “are completely at the service of the
President. And I think you see that now, of course, with Mike Pence and
Donald Trump. But you did even see it with Joe Biden and Barack Obama. And
when I was a White House reporter at Bloomberg News, I never got the sense
that there was any tension” between Biden and Obama. “So, that’s what I
thought was so fascinating doing this reporting. And I interviewed Vice
President Biden about it. ... It wasn’t love at first sight for [Biden and
Obama]. It did take time for them to build trust. But, of course by the end
of the those eight years, they did something that no other modern President
and Vice President have ever done. And they actually moved closer over
those eight years together, and that’s unprecedented.”

*Brower Discusses Biden’s Relationship With Pence. *During her
appearance on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal[image: Image removed by sender.
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(6/24), Brower said that Pence “absolutely helped Donald Trump with the
conservative base of the Republican Party. He is someone who had been in
Congress for six terms. He still has great relationships on Capitol Hill.
He’s a politician. And that’s why Joe Biden told me that he talks to Mike
Pence at least once a month, which I think is shocking to people that they
have that relationship. But Joe Biden says, ‘Look, you can work with Mike
Pence.’ And Joe Biden tells foreign leaders he’s in touch with to call Mike
Pence and not Donald Trump, because Pence has experience in government. He
compared it to Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich and the relationship that
they had, where they could work together even though they were on
completely opposing sides.”
Biden Noted As One Of Former Obama Team Members Who’ve Released Memoirs.

Under the headline “Postcards From Another Era: Obama Team Memoirs Flood
The Stores,” the New York Times
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(6/24, Baker) reports that former President Barack Obama’s “team is back in
the arena, or at least in the bookstores, with a blitz of roughly two dozen
memoirs of their time in the White House, telling tales, settling scores,
justifying mistakes, selling nostalgia, setting the record straight,
attacking successors and spinning history. Everyone who ever spent even a
few minutes with Mr. Obama, it seems, has penned a volume of reminiscences,
postcards from a less head-spinning era.” Among those mentioned in the
report, albeit just briefly, is former Vice President Joe Biden, “who
shared the story of his son Beau’s death in ‘Promise Me, Dad.’”
Leading the News
Trump Calls For Denying Due Process To Immigrants Who Illegally Cross
Border.

In a pair of tweets on Sunday morning, President Trump argued that
immigrants who crossed into the US illegally should be sent back
immediately, in what media reports cast as an escalation of his attacks on
the judicial system. Trump tweeted
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“We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody
comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them
back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration
policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents...” He
continued
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“...Our Immigration policy, laughed at all over the world, is very unfair
to all of those people who have gone through the system legally and are
waiting on line for years! Immigration must be based on merit – we need
people who will help to Make America Great Again!”

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(6/24, lead story, 2:40, Snow) opened its broadcast, “Since the day he
announced his candidacy, President Trump promised a tough line on
immigration and border security. This morning on Twitter, he took it to a
new level.” To Bloomberg News
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(6/24, Epstein), Trump “ratcheted up his demands,” ABC World News
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(6/24, story 3, 1:15, Johnson) said he is “intensifying his biggest issue,”
and USA Today
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(6/24, Bacon) says he “once again railed against US immigration laws,
calling them a ‘mockery’ to law and order in his tweetstorm.” The New York
Times
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(6/24, Rogers) calls his demands “an escalation of his attacks on the
judicial system,” and “another twist in an already head-spinning series of
developments on immigration after the president reversed a policy last week
that had resulted in the separation of more than 2,300 children from their
families.”

The Washington Post
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(6/24, A1, Rucker, Weigel) says Trump “explicitly advocated depriving
undocumented immigrants of their due-process rights, arguing that people
who cross the border into the United States illegally must immediately be
deported without trial – and sowing more confusion among Republicans ahead
of a planned immigration vote this week.” The Wall Street Journal
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(6/24, A1, Radnofsky) similarly reports on the pair of tweets, which it
says represent a heightened of his rhetoric, and the Washington Examiner
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(6/24, Williams) says he “advocated for abolishing due process rights for
immigrants who enter the country illegally,” while Reuters
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(6/24, Chiacu, Lynch) notes Trump “did not differentiate between people who
entered the United States to seek asylum and illegal immigrants.”

The Hill
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(6/24, Thomsen) says Trump’s “call to eliminate due process from
deportation cases is likely to draw fire from critics and immigration
advocates,” while the AP
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(6/24, Superville) reports that he “has been criticizing immigration judges
for weeks, both exaggerating the number currently hearing cases and saying
that hiring more – as some members of Congress have proposed – would be
unnecessary.” Politico
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(6/24, Griffiths) too says that “as he did earlier this week, Trump
complained about the role of judges and the court system in the US
immigration process.”

The New York Post
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(6/24, Moore) says the tweets “cap off a tumultuous week that revolved
around the administration’s zero tolerance immigration policy,” and the Miami
Herald
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(6/24, Madan) reports they “also came just hours after” Rep. Debbie
Wasserman Schultz (D) “said at least 10 babies and toddlers were being
housed in two ‘tender-age shelters’ in Miami-Dade.”

*Trump Suggests Imposing Financial Penalty On Immigrants’ Home
Countries. *NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(6/24, lead story, 2:40, Snow) reported that in a new “interview
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with Christian media outlet TBN, Trump says he wants to impose a financial
punishment on migrants’ home countries in Central America.” Trump told TBN:
“You take a country like Honduras, sending people into the country by the
thousands, I think we should stop giving them money.”

*Pence To Visit Central America This Week. *Kelly O’Donnell briefly
reported on NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(6/24, lead story, 2:40, Snow) that “just days ago Vice President Pence met
the leader of Honduras here at the White House,” and “officials say the
Vice President will travel to Central and South America this week,
including a stop in Guatemala.” While “immigration is not officially on the
agenda,” O’Donnell said “it’ll be hard to avoid.”

*CBS Poll: Democrats Lead Generic Ballot Vote 40%-36% Amid
Immigration Controversy. *The Daily Caller
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(6/24, White) reports that Democrats’ advantage over Republicans going into
November’s midterm election “has narrowed to four points, according to a
poll
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conducted shortly after the peak of the family separation crisis at the
Southern border.” In a CBS News/YouGove nationwide poll conducted June
21-22, 36 percent of respondents “said they want to see Republicans
maintain control of Congress in 2018. Another 40 percent of those surveyed
told pollsters they prefer to see Democrats come out ahead on Election
Day.” Timothy Meads writes for Townhall
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(6/24, Meads) that the CBS poll also found “most Americans want parents and
children who enter America illegally kept together as a unit, but prefer
that the entire family is either detained or deported after they are caught
crossing the border into America.” In the poll, 48 percent of respondents
said the US should “release the entire family back to their home country
together.”

The Washington Times
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(6/24) reports the poll found that “most Americans disapprove strongly of
separating parents who cross the southern border illegally from their
children, but they also say the issue won’t sway their vote one way or the
other in the midterm elections.” The poll found that 53 percent of those
surveyed “said that what happens to families detained at the border is ‘not
changing’ the way they vote.”

*NYTimes: Polls Show Americans Increasingly Supportive Of
Immigration. *Several polls this past week “shed new light on attitudes
toward immigration,” the New York Times
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(6/23, Chokshi) reported, and they revealed “most Americans oppose the
separation of immigrant families at the border, and a larger share of
people than at any point since 2001 say immigration is good for the
nation.” The Times said that in Gallup’s survey
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of 1,520 adults nationwide, conducted June 1-13, 75 percent of respondents
said they “think immigration, in general, is good for the nation.” The
Times added that “support for reining in immigration is at its lowest level
in more than half a century: Just 29 percent of Americans believe it should
be decreased, the smallest share recorded by Gallup since at least 1965.”
The Times also cited recent polls by Ipsos
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The Economist/YouGov
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Quinnipiac University
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and the Pew Research Center
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which “found that most Americans disagreed with President Trump taking a
hard-line approach to immigration enforcement by separating families at the
border.”

*AP: Immigration Dispute Raises Tensions Between GOP, Latino
Voters. *The AP
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(6/23, Beaumont, Barrow) reported that “GOP strategists are bracing for the
potential fallout the turmoil at the border might have on November’s
midterm elections, where control of the House – and possibly the Senate –
is in play.” The AP added that “some Republicans are warning that...Trump’s
racially charged appeals to white voters, on display again at a recent
rally he held in Minnesota, will doom the party’s relationship with
minorities.”

*Administration Pledge To Reunite Families Met With Skepticism From
Democrats. *Trump’s executive order to halt his Administration’s practice
of separating migrant families at the border dominated the Sunday shows
with lawmakers reacting to a pledge over the weekend by the Administration
that it is working to reunite separated families. The AP
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(6/24, Long) reports Administration officials said over the weekend that
the government “knows the location of all children in its custody after
separating them from their families at the border and is working to reunite
them.” However, a fact sheet on “zero-tolerance prosecution and family
reunification” released Saturday night by DHS and “other agencies involved
in the separations...doesn’t state how long it might take to reunite
families.” When pressed Sunday on whether he was confident the
Administration “knows where all the children are and will be able to
reunite them with their parents,” Sen. Ron Johnson “hedged,” telling CNN’s
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(6/24, Tapper), “That is what they’re claiming.”

The Los Angeles Times
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(6/24, King) too says that Democrats “responded skeptically Sunday” to the
Administration’s assertion that it has a process in place to reunite
families, “while Republican lawmakers sought to defend the president’s
immigration policies.” But the Times says “even a prominent GOP ally of
Trump’s acknowledged frustration over the lack of information from the
White House.” When asked on NBC’s Meet The Press[image: Image removed by
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(6/24, Todd) whether he thought the White House had been “fully
transparent,” Sen. James Lankford replied, “I don’t, actually.”

The Wall Street Journal
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(6/24, A1, Radnofsky) reports on its front page that a half-dozen federal
agencies have been responding to last week’s executive order, and are under
pressure to locate and reconnect the remaining children separated from
their parents. USA Today
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(6/24, Wang, Náñez) says that while the Administration released a plan to
reunify families, it “remains unclear how long it will take to bring
parents back together with their children.” Also unclear is “how often
parents have chosen to be deported without their child,” and “how many
parents...were deported without first being informed of where their
children were or how to get them back.” Reuters
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(6/24, Torbati) speculates that “deportation proceedings could take months
to complete, and the fact sheet did not say whether parents and children
would be reunited in the intervening time. DHS officials did not
immediately respond to questions about the process explained in the fact
sheet.”

According to DHS, the government has already reunited 522 migrant
children with their parents, the New York Times
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(6/24, Jett, Zaveri) reports. But as of last Wednesday, “there were 2,053
separated children being held in federal Department of Health and Human
Services facilities.” The Washington Post
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(6/24, Miroff, Sacchetti) reports that “one administration official said
Sunday the number of children returned to their families to date may be
‘slightly higher’ than 522 because the Department of Health and Human
Services has released some minors to the custody of other sponsors,
typically close relatives.”

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(6/24, lead story, 2:40, Quijano), however, reported that while HHS “says
they have a process to ensure that family members know the location of
their children and have regular communication after separation...federal
public defenders in El Paso say in a number of zero-tolerance criminal
cases, their clients have not been told where their children are.” On NBC
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(6/24, story 2, 2:00, Snow), Gabe Gutierrez reported that HHS “says it’s
still caring for more than 2,000 separated minors, and many say the process
of reuniting them will not be easy” amid the confusion. The CBS
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(6/24, story 2, 1:05, Quijano) said “the government has revealed that 17%
of the minors separated from adults in Health And Human Services facilities
were part of the Administration’s zero-tolerance initiative. It will take a
lot of work to reunite the remaining 83% who show up here without a parent
or guardian.”

The New York Times
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(6/24, Jordan) tells the story of a mother and son from Brazil who were
separated at the US border on May 30. The mother, Lidia Karina Souza, was
released to relatives in Massachusetts two weeks later, but her
nine-year-old son Diogo is still being held in a shelter in Chicago.
According to the Times, “it is still not clear when her son will rejoin
her.”

The Washington Post
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(6/24, A1, Sacchetti, Sieff, Fisher) reports that while the “separations
have stopped and the Trump administration has said that it is executing a
plan to reunify the children with their parents,” more than 2,000 children
still remain spread around the country in shelters. The children, the Post
says, “have been through hell.” NBC Nightly News[image: Image removed by
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(6/24, story 3, 1:40, Snow), meanwhile, reported that while “efforts to
reunite families are obviously meant to help the children,” psychologists
says they can cause “confusion and resentment.”

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(6/24, story 6, 2:15, Johnson), Marcus Moore traveled across the border to
Mexico, where he spoke with people “hoping to get to America.” Moore said,
“There’s real sense of desperation. Many of them say they’ll stop at
nothing to cross the border. One man told me he plans to try to cross again
next week.”

*Gutiérrez: Trump Using Immigration To Rally Base. *The Hill
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(6/24, Mitchell) reports Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D) “charged Trump with using
immigration rhetoric and ‘cruel, inhumane policies’ to ‘gin up’ his
political base ahead of November’s midterm elections.” Gutiérrez said on ABC’s
This Week[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(6/24, Stephanopolis) that President Trump uses immigration policy “as an
issue to energize his political base for the midterm elections. ... And it
seems like it’s working. As long as they continue to criminalize immigrants
and Latinos, which has been the cornerstone of his political strategy,
we’re not going to resolve this issue.” The Washington Times
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(6/24, Richardson) reports Rep. Barbara Lee (D) similarly accused the
Administration Sunday of “criminalizing” illegal immigrants. Lee, who
joined a congressional delegation that visited detention facilities
Saturday near the border in Texas, described the conditions as “tragic,”
and said, “These are jails. These are prisons. These are people who are
being criminalized.”

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D) said on MSNBC’s Politics Nation[image:
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(6/24) that family separations were “cooked up for political reasons.
Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and Jeff Sessions and the boys decided they
were going to use young, vulnerable children as hostages to try to extort
Democrats in the House and in the Senate to give Donald Trump $25 [b]illion
for his ridiculous border wall and erode the legal immigration system.”

*Bossert: Trump’s Executive Order Won’t Survive Court Challenges. *The
Hill
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(6/24, Mitchell) reports Trump’s former homeland security adviser, Tom
Bossert, on ABC’s This Week defended the Administration’s zero tolerance
policy, but said he doesn’t believe the order will “survive three weeks,”
because it clashes with a 2015 ruling from a circuit court. The judge
called former President Obama’s policy of detaining children and parents
together “inhumane.” Said Bossert, “There is no way this executive order
survives first contact, because her view of President Trump will be
harsher.”

*AP Rollout Of Trump Immigration Policy Similar To Travel Ban. *The
AP
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(6/24, Thomas, Superville) reports that the “fallout from Trump’s handling
of the separation of immigrant children from their families, which led to a
sharp reversal from the president, has been reminiscent of the chaos
sparked when Trump opened his administration by imposing a travel ban on
immigrants entering from majority Muslim countries.” Taken together, the AP
says the events “demonstrate how little Trump appears to have learned or
adjusted his approach after that first rocky encounter with governing. From
issue to issue, from immigration to health care to trade and more, Trump’s
pattern has been to outline a plan with scant concern or preparation for
its immediate impact or consequences, and to make changes on the fly with
the same lack of planning.”

*Obama DHS Secretary Johnson: “We Expanded Family Detention.”
*The Daily
Caller
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(6/24, Morefield) reports former Obama Administration DHS Secretary Jeh
Johnson “freely admitted” to Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday that his
department “expanded family detention” as well as detained some children,
but added that he believed the decision “was necessary at the time.” After
Wallace showed pictures of detained children from 2014, Johnson said,
“Without a doubt the images, and the reality, from 2014, just like 2018,
are not pretty. And so we expanded family detention. We had then 34,000
beds for family detention. Only 95 of 34,000 equipped to deal with
families. And so we expanded it. I freely admit it was controversial. We
believed it was necessary at the time. I still believe it is necessary to
remain a certain capability for families.”

*Analysts: Mother, Crying Child In Viral Photo Have No Basis To
Claim Asylum. *The Washington Times
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(6/24, Dinan) reports that “the mother and child in that now-iconic photo
of family separation not only weren’t separated, but their claims of asylum
are also likely bogus,” according to analysts. The woman, identified as
Sandra Sanchez, “was deported from the US in 2013, which analysts said
suggests her latest attempt to enter the US is likely about illegal
immigration rather than asylum.” Her decision to leave her other children
in Honduras, according to the girl’s father, “will also likely weigh on her
chances, suggesting that she didn’t fear for them in their home country.”
Matthew J. O’Brien of the Federation for American Immigration Reform said,
“If the children and her spouse are safe, and she felt comfortable leaving
them home, it is arguable that the mother has no real fear of persecution.”

*Sessions Warns Against Obstructing Border Police Amid Threats. *
Politico
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(6/24, Griffiths) reports Attorney General Sessions over the weekend
“issued a warning on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, saying
that regardless of what anyone thinks of Trump administration immigration
policies, obstructing or abusing border and customs officials will not be
tolerated.” In a statement, Sessions said, “Free speech, assembly, and
protest are and will be protected. But obstructing law enforcement or
committing other crimes will not be tolerated.” His warning came after
“online activists threatened to dox ICE employees by attempting to publicly
shame those who work for the agency and others vowed to use tactics similar
to those of the occupy movement to grind immigration enforcement to a
halt.”

*Lankford: “I Have A Real Concern That We’re Demonizing Law
Enforcement.” *Breitbart
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(6/24, Key) reports Sen. James Lankford said on NBC’s Meet The Press[image:
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(6/24, Todd) that he is concerned that a result of the debate over the
Administration’s immigration policies is we are “demonizing law enforcement
folks.” Said Lankford, “I would prefer the President would step out and say
a lot of these folks are coming for reasons – they want to flee into an
area where they have greater economic opportunities. ... So I have a real
concern that we’re demonizing law enforcement folks that really are trying
to be able to do their job because there are very real threats, but the
vast majority of individuals are coming for economic reasons. That is why
they’re coming from Central America, and they’re not fleeing to Costa Rica,
Belize or Ecuador who also have great asylum laws, they’re coming to the
United States because they want the economic opportunities.”

*UN Official: Separation Of Children Prohibited By International
Law. *UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Zeid Raad Al Hussein said on CNN’s
Fareed Zakaria GPS[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(6/24), “There must be a humane way by which those seeking asylum can
access not just legal help, but are entitled to individual assessment. And
if there are conditions of detention, they must be a last resort, and
detention must be kept to a minimum, especially where children are
concerned.” He continued, “And clearly, the separation of children from
families is absolutely prohibited under international human rights law and
even if the US is not party to the treaty that governs this, it needs to
respect international standards. And so we were pleased to see that the
President has reversed course on this.”

*Ivanka Trump Calls For Aiding Economic Opportunity In Latin
America. *Yahoo! News
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(6/24, Walsh) reports that “amid the controversy over the United States’
immigration policies,” White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump “said she
agrees with many people on both sides of the political aisle that the
nation must help encourage stability, economic growth, and job prospects
throughout Latin America.” Ms. Trump tweeted
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Sunday morning, “I agree w/ the many people, on the Left and Right, arguing
that we must help foster stability in Central + South America by helping
create economic oppportunity. #2XAmericas was launched in Peru this May in
furtherance of this important goal.” Yahoo! says, “That Ivanka Trump
referred back to her 2X Americas announcement now – during the
extraordinary backlash over the Trump administration’s handling of
immigration – suggests that she views these issues as connected.”

*Dionne: Family Separations “Dramatized” Administration’s “Routine
Cruelty.” *E.J. Dionne writes in his Washington Post
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(6/24) column that Trump “has a special animus toward immigrants, but the
children of those crossing our borders are not the only vulnerable people
in his sights. His administration is waging a less visible war on our
nation’s poorest citizens, with the complicity of its Republican allies in
Congress.” The family-separation policy, Dionne argues, “dramatized in an
especially egregious way the routine cruelty of this administration.” Radio
host Richard Fowler similarly said on Fox News’ MediaBuzz[image: Image
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(6/24), “You saw some heartlessness from folks in the Trump Administration.
You heard Jeff Sessions use scripture and the Bible to back up heartless
policy that was created by the Administration. ... They were very tone deaf
to where the country was and where...modern-day society was.”

Julie Hirschfeld Davis of the New York Times said on CNN’s Inside
Politics[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(6/24), “We have to understand this is a crisis entirely of their own
making. You can argue there was a crisis in terms of the volume of Central
American migration into the United States which existed for many years.
There was. But this particular crisis of all these children who are now
listed as and being treated as unaccompanied even though they came to the
border with their parents is of the Administration’s own making.”
McCaul: Trump Still “100 Percent” Behind House Bill.

USA Today
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(6/24, Kelly) reports House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul said
Sunday that President Trump remains “100 percent” behind a compromise House
immigration bill, “despite Trump saying last week that Congress should give
up its legislative efforts until after the election in November.” McCaul
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(6/24, Wallace), “I did talk to the White House [Saturday]; they did say
the President is still 100% behind us.” He added, “I am the eternal
optimist, and I do think there are 218 Republicans that agree [on the need
to pass the bill].” The Washington Times
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(6/24, Richardson) reports McCaul also warned that there will be “a new
child migrant crisis reminiscent of the summer 2014 border crossings if
Congress fails to pass immigration reform.” Said McCaul, “We have to get
this done, or we will see this scene play out over and over again. We had
30,000 kids in 2014. We’re going to see the same thing this summer if we
don’t change it.”

The Washington Post
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(6/24, A1, Rucker, Weigel), however, reports White House Director Of
Legislative Affairs Marc Short “said Sunday that it was premature to
announce which measures Trump would sign but urged Congress to act quickly
to address the immigration issue broadly.” Said Short, “The White House has
consistently raised our concern about the Flores settlement with Congress.
It’s, in fact, an issue that previous Administrations grappled with also,
and we anticipate Congress acting on that sooner rather than later.”

House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, meanwhile, said on Fox
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(6/24, Bartiromo), “We worked over the weekend to come up new ideas, which
we are in the process now of vetting.” He continued, “It’s my hope that
these will lead us to take up that second bill with an amendment that will
add some important provisions.”

*Media Analyses: House Bill Unlikely To Pass. *The CBS Weekend
News[image:
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(6/24, story 3, 2:10, Quijano) reported McCaul “plans to put his so-called
consensus immigration bill up for vote in the House soon. In addition to
securing $25 billion for a border wall, it ends family separation and puts
limits on legal immigration, as well as providing a pathway to citizenship
for Dreamers. Its chances of passing, though, are slim.” On ABC World News
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(6/24, story 5, 0:30, Johnson), Tara Palmeri too said the bill “is unlikely
to pass. Sources are telling me Republicans are working on a more narrow
bill that will cancel the 20-day cap on detention for children so they can
stay with their parents. But even that bill is unlikely to get much support
from Democrats.”

An AP
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(6/24, Fram) analysis says Republican apprehension over Trump’s “next tweet
and fear of riling conservative voters are undermining GOP leaders’
election-year struggle to shove an immigration bill through the House this
week, leaving their prospects dubious.” Republican leaders are “trying to
finally secure the votes they need for their wide-ranging bill with tweaks
they hope will goose support from the GOP’s dueling conservative and
moderate wings. But more importantly, wavering Republicans want Trump to
provide political cover for immigration legislation that’s despised by
hard-right voters.”

*Flake Urges Trump To Stop Calling Democrats Names. *Sen. Jeff
Flake, who also appeared on ABC’s This Week[image: Image removed by sender.
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(6/24, Stephanopolis), said, “We don’t have the judges or the
infrastructure to do this. ... Congress has to fix this. What is bothersome
is the President’s rhetoric about the Democrats and their unwillingness to
have border security or control. They are on record supporting significant
border control. And so, when the President says that and calls them
‘clowns’ and ‘losers,’ how does he expect the Democrats to sit down and
work with Republicans on these issues? Words matter, what the President
says matters, and he ought to knock that off,”

*Sen. Sanders: Democrats Committed To Immigration Reform. *Sen.
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(6/24, Tapper), “Clearly, anyone who looks at the record understands that
the Democrats in Congress have been serious about comprehensive immigration
reform,” which “is what the American people want. A path towards
citizenship for people who are undocumented.” He added, “We need Trump now
to make it clear that the United States of America is not a nation which
tears children from their parents. Let us be very clear, what the President
is now trying to do is to divide us up and not focusing on the real issues
that impact the American people.”

*Smugglers Increase Drone Flights Along US-Mexico Border. *The
Washington
Post
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(6/24, Harkins) reports that “smugglers are using video cameras and small
drones to spot vulnerabilities along the US-Mexico border, and the
Department of Homeland Security is struggling to stop them.” According to
Customs and Border Protection, “reports of unmanned aircraft flying along
the southwestern border have spiked in recent months, with more than three
dozen sightings since October, when the fiscal year began. That data point
is on a course to quadruple from the previous year.” James Thom, acting
operations director for CBP’s Air and Marine Operations Center outside Los
Angeles, says, “To date, I don’t know that we’ve successfully been able to
detect and track drone activity.”
Foreign Policy
Kushner: US Will Release Mideast Peace Plan With Or Without Palestinian
Input.

The AP
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(6/24, Zion) reports presidential senior adviser Jared Kushner “said in an
interview published Sunday that the administration will soon present its
Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, with or without input” from Palestinian
leader Mahmoud Abbas, “who has shunned the Trump team over its alleged
pro-Israel bias, particularly on the fate of contested Jerusalem.” The AP
notes Kushner’s interview with the Arabic language Al-Quds newspaper “came
out after a weeklong trip around the region by Kushner and Mideast envoy
Jason Greenblatt,” who “met with leaders of Israel, Jordan, Qatar, Egypt
and Saudi Arabia to discuss the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza
and the administration’s proposals for a peace deal.”

The Los Angeles Times
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(6/24, Tarnopolsky) reports Kushner said in his interview that the
Administration will unveil its peace plan soon – with or without Abbas’
approval. He stressed that the US is willing to listen if Abbas is willing
to negotiate, although “he warned that ‘if he is not, we will likely air
the plan publicly.” He cast doubt on Abbas’ capacity for such negotiations,
however, saying he “question[ed] how much President Abbas has the ability
to, or is willing to, lean into finishing a deal.” He stressed, “To make a
deal both sides will have to take a leap and meet somewhere between their
stated positions. I am not sure President Abbas has the ability to do
that.”

The New York Times
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(6/24, Halbfinger) says Kushner’s interview was “replete with criticism” of
Abbas, and he “appeared to be attempting to goad Mr. Abbas into talks the
leader has vowed to boycott, while doing considerable pre-emptive damage
control in the event that Mr. Abbas does not relent.” Offering “little in
the way of enticements” to Abbas, Kushner “mentioned nothing about a
sovereign Palestinian state or of Palestinian refugees.” Kushner also
declined to “mention Israeli settlements on the West Bank or using the 1967
lines as a starting point to draw borders; and nothing about East Jerusalem
serving as the Palestinian capital.”

Reuters
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(6/24, Farrell) says Kushner’s “comments underlined gaping divisions
between Washington and the Palestinian leadership that have widened since
Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December and moved the
U.S. Embassy there, overriding decades of U.S. policy.” After the interview
was published, Palestinian leaders “accused Kushner of trying to undermine
Abbas and what they described as their leader’s moderate camp.” Separately,
some observers “have questioned the credentials of Kushner and U.S. Middle
East emissary Jason Greenblatt – neither had diplomatic experience.”

*Britain’s Prince William Visits Middle East. *[image: Image
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(6/24, story 4, 1:10, Snow) reported the US delegation’s visit to the
Middle East coincided with a visit by Britain’s Prince William, who arrived
in Jordan Sunday afternoon and is expected to meet with Israeli and
Palestinian leaders later this week. People “close to him” have said he’s
“hoping...to bring a new sense of positivity to this region.”

The AP
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(6/24, Laub) reports “Prince William on Sunday praised ‘historic ties and
friendship’ with Jordan and the kingdom’s commitment to Syrian and
Palestinian refugees, as he began a historic five-day tour that also
includes Israel and the Palestinian territories.” While the visit has been
“billed as non-political, it’s a high profile visit for William.” The
prince was hosted by Crown Prince Hussein in Jordan on Sunday, and is
expected to meet “with young scientists, refugees and political leaders in
a tumultuous region Britain controlled between the two world wars.” Prince
William will depart for Jerusalem on Monday evening, marking “the
first-ever official visit by a member of the royal family to Israel and the
Palestinian territories.” The AP says the conflict “typically looms large,
even during largely ceremonious visits, and William will have to maneuver
carefully to avoid missteps.”

*Trump Defends Decision To Transfer US Embassy To Jerusalem. *President
Trump said on [image: Image removed by sender. Video]TBN’s Huckabee
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(6/24), “There were many presidents before me and everybody campaigned that
they were going to move the embassy to Jerusalem and nobody did it and I
never understood why. But I do understand now because two weeks before I
did it, when the word was out I was going to do it, I was called by so many
countries saying, please don’t do it. I mean, I got to the point where I
said, I will call you back in a week because I didn’t want them to tell me,
don’t do it, and then I do it because I was going to do it. It was a
campaign promise. I thought it was important. And you know who really likes
it the most are the evangelicals. I tell you what, I get more calls of
thank you from evangelicals, and I see it in the audiences an everything
else, than I do from Jewish people.”

*NYTimes: Israel Rekindles Push To Remove West Bank Bedouin
Communities. *A New York Times
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(6/24, Halbfinger, Nazzal) analysis says for decades, Israel has sought “to
clear a large section of the West Bank of several thousand Bedouins – who
raise sheep and goats in the creases of the hills east of Jerusalem – to
make room for the expansion of Jewish settlements,” but “liberal Israeli
judges and foreign diplomats helped slow the expulsions.” Now, the Times
says, “the brakes may be off.” With the Administration “providing
diplomatic cover, right-wing ministers in Israel pressing to exploit that
while it lasts and international support for the Palestinians focused for
the moment on Gaza, a new ruling by a settler-majority panel of Israel’s
Supreme Court appears to have freed the government to proceed with the
removal of entire Bedouin communities on the West Bank.” Advocates and
supporters of the Bedouins have warned that “this would be a war crime: the
forced transfer of a population under the protection of the military
occupation.”
Erdoğan Declares Victory In Turkish National Elections.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared victory “in Sunday’s
presidential election and said his ruling AK Party and its alliance partner
had won a parliamentary majority.” reports Reuters
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(6/24, Toksabay, Gumrukcu), which says the outcome “ushers in a powerful
new executive presidency long sought by Erdoğan and backed by a small
majority of Turks in a 2017 referendum.” The Washington Post
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(6/24, Cunningham) reports Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party
(AKP) lost its parliamentary majority, but “together with its ally, the
Nationalist Movement Party, which outperformed at the polls, it will
maintain control of the parliament.” Erdoğan’s primary challenger,
“Muharrem Ince, and his secular-left People’s Republican Party, or CHP,
urged observers to stay at the country’s ballot boxes to ensure votes were
counted fairly,” as “there were scattered reports of ballot-stuffing,
largely in Turkey’s southeast, where tensions between the government and
the ethnic Kurdish minority remain high.”

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(6/24, story 5, 0:20, Snow) said “Erdoğan was facing the strongest
challenge to his power in years.” The [image: Image removed by sender.
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(6/24, story 7, 0:20, Quijano) said “Erdoğan has overseen historic change
in Turkey since his Islamic rooted ruling party came to power in 2002,” and
the New York Times
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(6/24, Gall) explains “Erdoğan has overseen a crackdown on lawyers, judges,
civil servants and journalists under a state of emergency declared after a
failed coup two years ago.” Erdoğan’s critics and political opponents “had
portrayed Sunday’s election as their last chance to prevent Turkey from
becoming an authoritarian state.” To the Times, Erdoğan’s “victory has
potentially grave consequences for cooperation within NATO, security in
Iraq and Syria, and control of immigration flows into Europe.” While
“Turkey has continued to cooperate with its Western partners on
counterterrorism efforts,” Erdoğan has “tested the NATO alliance by drawing
closer to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, buying an advanced Russian
missile defense system and planning a Russian-built nuclear reactor in
Turkey.”

On its front page, the Wall Street Journal
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(6/24, A1, Candemir) says Erdoğan’s first moves following the vote –
including his actions in Syria, interactions with NATO, and response to
Europe’s migrant crisis – will be closely watched by the US and its Western
allies. The US disapproves of Turkey’s decision to buy the Russian missile
defense system and its actions in Syria, among other issues, while Turkish
authorities are upset by the Administration’s refusal to deport Fethullah
Gulen, the cleric accused of orchestrating the failed coup.

The Wall Street Journal
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(6/24) editorializes that even though the outcome of Sunday’s vote grants
Erdoğan vast new authority to expand his increasingly authoritarian rule,
the vote revealed a reenergized democratic opposition, underscoring how
many voters are unhappy with the slow economic growth, capital flight, and
rising inflation under Erdoğan’s leadership. Still, the Journal warns,
Erdoğan will likely become an even more difficult NATO partner, in part
because the Administration has neglected Turkey in its focus on North
Korea, Russia, and Iran.
WPost: Logistical Problems May Impede NATO In Russia Conflict.

A Washington Post
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(6/24, Birnbaum) analysis says in at least one White House exercise
simulating “a European war with Russia, the logistical stumbles contributed
to a NATO loss.” NATO has “just a skeleton force deployed to its member
countries that share a border with Russia,” and reinforcements “would need
to traverse hundreds of miles.” Delays stemming from “bureaucracy, bad
planning and decaying infrastructure” could also “enable Russia to seize
NATO territory in the Baltics while U.S. Army planners were still filling
out the 17 forms needed to cross Germany and into Poland.” NATO leaders
have started addressing these issues and are working “with the European
Union in the past year to boost funding for infrastructure and reduce
bureaucratic roadblocks.” Perhaps most significantly, according to the
Post, “leaders are also expected to approve plans to increase the number of
NATO troops that could make the rapid journey if needed, to about 30,000
within 30 days.”
Trump Calls On Countries To Remove “Artificial Trade Barriers And Tariffs.”

In a tweet Sunday afternoon, President Trump demanded that nations that
have placed “artificial Trade Barriers and Tariffs” on imported products
remove them or face retaliation from the US. Trump wrote
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“The United States is insisting that all countries that have placed
artificial Trade Barriers and Tariffs on goods going into their country,
remove those Barriers & Tariffs or be met with more than Reciprocity by the
U.S.A. Trade must be fair and no longer a one way street!”

*Trump Set To Hit China With Investment Restrictions, Export
Controls. *Politico
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(6/24, Palmer, Behsudi) reports that the next round of Trump’s “trade
assault on Beijing is expected by the end of this week, when the Treasury
Department rolls out new restrictions on Chinese investment in the United
States and on the technologies that can be sold to China.” The Wall Street
Journal
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(6/24, Davis) reports that the Treasury Department is preparing rules to
prevent firms with at least 25% Chinese ownership from buying companies
involved in “industrially significant technology.” In addition, the NSC and
Commerce Department are crafting plans for “enhanced” export controls to
keep those technologies from being sent to China.

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(6/24), “The country is doing well. Companies are coming back into the
country. But, our trade is so imbalanced between China and the European
Union and Mexico and so many other countries. For years they have taken
advantage of the country. We have to straighten it out and we are in the
process of straightening it out.”

*Corker Says Opposition To Trump Tariffs Growing In Senate. *The
Hill
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(6/24, Samuels) reports that Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker
told CBS’ Face The Nation[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Sunday that there is growing support “for legislation to check President
Trump’s power on implementing tariffs.” Corker said “that the
administration’s use of the trade law’s national security provisions, known
as Section 232,” is “an abuse of authority,” and added, “I don’t know of a
senator that isn’t concerned about the broad use of this.” Corker
“expressed optimism on Sunday that Republican dissent on the issue is
growing,” saying, “I think there’s a jailbreak brewing.”

*Flake: Senate Shouldn’t Vote On Trump Judges Until There Is Vote
On Tariffs. *Breitbart
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(6/24, Key) reports that Sen. Jeff Flake told ABC’s This Week[image: Image
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(6/24) that senators “should stand up to President Donald Trump by not
approving any more judges until they get votes on things like tariffs.”
Flake said, “I can tell you Republicans need to stand up on issues like
tariffs. ... I do think unless we can actually exercise something other
than approving the President’s executive calendar, his nominees, judges
that we have no reason to be there. I think myself and a number of senators
at least a few of us, will stand up and say let’s not move any more judges
until we get a vote, for example, on tariffs.”

The Washington Post
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(6/24, Weigel) says Flake has so far “supported all of the White House’s
key judicial nominees, but the threat of a rebellion on one of the issues
that has most united conservatives behind the president drew friendly
fire.” In a tweet, Rep. Paul Gosar (R) “mocked Flake’s ‘hissy fit’ and said
he looked forward to the end of his colleague’s term this year.”

*WSJournal Considers Effects Of China Tariffs On US Companies.
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Street Journal
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(6/24, Francis) reports on the effects planned tariffs on imports from
China could have on US companies. The Journal story focuses on General
Electric plants in Florence, South Carolina and Waukesha, Wisconsin that
assemble MRI machines using parts from the company’s plants in China.

*US Dairy Industry Fears Trade Battle Could Cost Them Access To
Foreign Markets. *The New York Times
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(6/24, Swanson) reports that the barriers to US goods being erected by
countries in retaliation for Trump’s “aggressive trade measures,” Wisconsin
dairy farmers and cheesemakers “are growing anxious about what will happen
to all of the milk and cheese they churn out and typically sell overseas.”
Jeff Schwager, the president of Sartori Company, said, “If export markets
get shut off, I could see us getting to the point where we’re dumping our
milk in the fields. ... It’ll be a big ripple effect through the state.”
The dairy industry is facing “substantial tariffs on products it exports as
Mexico, Canada and other countries retaliate against Mr. Trump’s steel and
aluminum tariffs,” and US exporters fear “they could lose access to Canada
and Mexico if the president goes ahead with his threat to withdraw from the
North American Free Trade Agreement.”

*Samuelson: Trump’s Trade Policies Are “Backward.” *Robert
Samuelson writes in the Washington Post
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(6/24) that “Trump’s plan of attack suggests that everyone” – the US and
China – “will lose” in a trade war.