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Today's Table of Contents

*Biden in the News <#SECTION_1>*

• Biden In Ohio: Trump Has No “Ideology Other Than Aggrandizing Power.”
<#S1>

• Biden Rallies Support For Jealous At Maryland Democratic Party “Unity
Celebration.” <#S2>

*Leading the News <#SECTION_2>*

• Trump Predicts Quick Supreme Court Confirmation “If I Pick The Right
Person.” <#S3>

*Foreign Policy <#SECTION_3>*

• Trump Says He’ll Delay Signing NAFTA Deal Until After Midterms. <#S4>

• Bolton Downplays Reports On North Korea Weapons Concealment. <#S5>

• Bolton: Trump To Discuss “Range Of Issues” During “Unstructured” Summit
With Putin. <#S6>

• Merkel’s Bavarian Allies Divided Over EU Migrant Deal. <#S7>

• Mexican Voters Deliver Leftist López Obrador “Landslide Victory.” <#S8>

• At Least 19 Killed In Afghanistan Attack Targeting Afghan Sikhs, Hindus.
<#S9>

• Trump Demands OPEC Pump More Oil. <#S10>

*Domestic Policy <#SECTION_4>*

• Trump: Democrats “Will Never Win Another Election” With Calls To Abolish
ICE. <#S11>

• NYTimes Profiles Progressive Women Running For Office. <#S12>

• Trump Says He Wants To Stay “Uninvolved” In Russia Probe, “At Least For
Now.” <#S13>

• Trump: Tax Reform Package Has Been Successful. <#S14>

• WPost: States Moving To Fill Gaps Washington Creating In ACA. <#S15>

• Portland Police Declare Riot, Revoke Permit As Antifa Disrupts Protest.
<#S16>

• Seattle Bans Plastic Straws, Utensils In Restaurants. <#S17>

*Cancer Research <#SECTION_5>*

• DNA-Level Biomarker May Help Predict Survival In Glioma Patients. <#S18>

• Enzalutamide Found To Postpone Metastasis For Some Prostate Cancer
Patients. <#S19>

*Editorials/Op-Eds <#SECTION_6>*

• New York Times. <#S20>

• Washington Post. <#S21>
Biden in the News
Biden In Ohio: Trump Has No “Ideology Other Than Aggrandizing Power.”

Media coverage of former Vice President Joe Biden’s Friday appearance in
Cincinnati, Ohio – where he campaigned with and helped raise cash for
gubernatorial hopeful Richard Cordray (D) – largely focuses on Biden’s
remarks on President Trump and his Administration. The Cincinnati Enquirer
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(6/29, Horn, Thompson) reported that while visiting a local barbershop with
Cordray, “all the questions Biden fielded were about his own plans, and
about the current occupant of the White House. ‘I don’t think he has any
ideology other than aggrandizing power,’ Biden said of Trump. ‘It’s not
like he’s liberal or conservative.’” Biden “said Trump’s only goal is to
unravel the legacy of President Barack Obama. ... He said Trump has
undermined protections in the Affordable Care Act, stoked the flames of
racial hatred and opened the door for Republicans to roll back Medicare,
Medicaid and Social Security. ‘I think he’s been on a mission,’ Biden
said.” WCPO-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Cincinnati (6/29) broadcast video of Biden visiting the barbershop, and
showed him making the “aggrandizing power” remark about Trump.

*Biden Says Charlottesville Violence Led Him To Speak Out Against
Trump. *In an online article, WCPO-TV
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Cincinnati (6/29) reported that Biden “initially felt compelled to spend
the first year of...Trump’s presidency keeping mum, he said Friday evening,
in order to let the fledgling administration breathe. He changed his mind
Aug. 12, 2017, when white supremacists marched through the city of
Charlottesville, Virginia, and one of them killed anti-racist protester
Heather Heyer.” Biden, speaking with reporters in the barbershop, said, “I
couldn’t remain silent after I saw those Nazis – neo-Nazis – coming out of
fields carrying torches in one of the historic cities in America, followed
by and accompanied by white supremacists, and them being objected to by
other citizens and the president saying there are good people in both
places. I mean, come on.” In a broadcast, WCPO-TV[image: Image removed by
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Cincinnati's Good Morning Tri-State Weekend (6/30) showed a clip of Biden
making the “neo-Nazis coming out of fields carrying torches” remark.

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Cleveland (6/30) reported that Biden “still isn’t giving any hints about
whether he’ll run for president in 2020...but that’s not stopping him from
nipping at President Trump. He says President Trump will have to make some
cuts in social programs to cover losses in revenue from this year’s
tax-relief law.” WNWO-TV[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Toledo, OH (6/29) broadcast a similar report.

*Biden On Trump SCOTUS Pick: “All He Needs Is One More Vote” To
Overturn Roe V. Wade. *In a broadcast highlighting Biden’s visit to the
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Cincinnati (6/29) reported that he commented on “the upcoming Supreme Court
pick by President Trump. Biden says he’s worried a conservative justice
would overturn Roe v. Wade.” Biden was shown saying that he’s concerned
about “basic settled law being completely dismissed. And I believe the
President has made it clear he’d like to undo Roe v. Wade. All he needs is
one more vote.” MSNBC The Beat[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(6/29) broadcast video of Biden making the same remarks, and WDTN-TV[image:
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Dayton, OH (6/29) showed a clip on its broadcast of Biden saying of the
Supreme Court vacancy, “When there has been a divided government and when
the nation has been divided, Presidents have gone out and found consensus
candidates. Now, we know there is going to be a conservative justice and
that’s not a surprise.”

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Columbus, OH (6/30) briefly reported on Biden’s appearance in Cincinnati in
support of Cordray, and added that Biden “went to Cleveland for a
fundraiser for Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown’s re-election bid.”
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Cincinnati (6/30) broadcast a similar report, and WTTE-TV[image: Image
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Columbus, OH (6/29) also briefly reported on Biden’s Cincinnati visit.

*During Flight, Reporter’s Grandmother Asked Biden About 2020
Intentions. *In a brief story headlined “Joe Biden Grilled By Reporter’s
Grandmother On Flight To Cincy,” the Cincinnati Enquirer
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(6/29, Strickley) reported, “Yes, the headline is sarcastic. It was more
like polite banter than a grilling. But Enquirer FC Cincinnati and Xavier
reporter Pat Brennan’s grandma did ask...Biden the question most reporters
would want the opportunity to ask him: Are you running for president in
2020? He told her he had not decided. Biden was seated next to Betty
Brennan of Minersville, Pennsylvania on an American Airlines flight from
Philadelphia to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.”
Biden Rallies Support For Jealous At Maryland Democratic Party “Unity
Celebration.”

The Baltimore Sun
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(6/30, Donovan) reported that former Vice President Joe Biden “joined
Maryland Democrats Saturday night at Camden Yards to rally support for”
ex-NAACP chief Ben Jealous (D), who is challenging Gov. Larry Hogan (R)
this fall. At the event, which was held “just four days after” Jealous won
“his party’s contested primary,” Biden “said Democrats need to end
inner-party bickering to take back Congress and win local and state
elections to defeat a” GOP “that he said favors corporations and wealthy
donors over middle-class, working families.” Said Biden, “We have to stop
them. We can’t do it if we’re divided.” The Sun added, “Democratic Party
sources said Jealous raised about $150,000 at the ‘unity celebration.’”

Drawing from the Sun story, The Hill
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(7/1, Birnbaum) similarly reported on Saturday’s event, and added that
Biden’s “support of Jealous comes at a moment when the Democratic party is
grappling with an apparent veer to the left. Self-described democratic
socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated Rep. Joe Crowley (NY) in an
upset win last week, sparking conversation about the direction of the
party.” Drawing from the Sun story, the AP
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(7/1) also briefly reported on the event. In a broadcast, WBAL-TV[image:
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Baltimore (7/1) reported that Saturday’s “the event serves as the party’s
marquee fundraising event for the year.” The report briefly mentioned that
Biden “delivered the keynote address.” In an online article, WBFF-TV
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Baltimore (6/30) also offered a brief report.
Leading the News
Trump Predicts Quick Supreme Court Confirmation “If I Pick The Right
Person.”

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(7/1, Bartiromo), President Trump vowed he would “pick somebody who is
outstanding” to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. He
also predicted that while Democrats would work to resist his choice, “I
think it will go quickly if I pick the right person.” The Washington
Examiner
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(7/1, Chaitin) reports Trump also predicted a “big week” ahead, declaring
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Sunday he will be focused on deciding who he will nominate to succeed
Kennedy.

Media reports, however, cast Trump as ready for a fight with
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(7/1, story 4, 2:50, Llamas) Tara Palmeri said Trump is “preparing for
battle tonight over his highly anticipated Supreme Court pick.” Trump:
“It’s probably going to be vicious because the other side, all they can do
obstruct and resist. You know, their whole thing is resist.” NBC Nightly
News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(7/1, story 6, 2:00, Jackson) reported, “A vicious but fast fight. That’s
what President Trump says he expects once he announces the second Supreme
Court nominee of his Administration” next week under “his self-imposed
deadline.” Kelly O’Donnell said Trump, who is “on the trail this week, is
already touting the influence of his high court selection to rally his own
base.” The CBS Weekend News[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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(7/1, story 4, 2:40, Quijano) reported that while Trump “voiced confidence
that his yet-to-be-announced Supreme Court nominee will be confirmed soon,”
his choice “needs the backing of nearly all Senate Republicans.” According
to the Wall Street Journal
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(7/1, Armour, Nicholas), White House officials are also meeting with
Democrats, including the three who voted last year for Justice Neil
Gorsuch: Sens. Joe Manchin, Heidi Heitkamp and Joe Donnelly.

USA Today
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(7/1, Estepa) reports that while Trump said he is “going to pick someone
who is outstanding,” the “eventual nominee already faces a hurdle:
Republicans hold a slim 51-49 majority in the Senate, and Sen. John McCain
is out as he battles brain cancer. That means the president needs to cater
to senators on both sides of the aisle if he hopes to get a majority to
vote in favor of his pick.”

Reports also continue to cast the issue of abortion as likely to be
a focal point of the eventual nominee’s confirmation hearings. Breitbart
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(7/1, Key) says Trump “hinted at the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade”
during his interview with Fox News, saying the legality of abortion “could
very well end up with states at some point.” Asked if abortion rights
should be decided by the states, Trump said, “Well, maybe someday it will
be to the states. You never know how that’s going to turn out. That’s a
very complex question. The Roe v. Wade is probably the one that people are
talking about in terms of having an effect. But we will see what happens.
But it could very well end up with states at some point.”

TIME
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(7/1, Langone) reports that in the interview with Fox News, “Trump
acknowledged that the status of Roe v. Wade is one of the key issues in the
public’s mind,” but Newsweek
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(7/1, Fearnow) says he “hesitantly added, however, that he’s not going to
be ‘so specific with the questions’ used to query” candidates. Yahoo! News
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(7/1, Walsh) reports Trump, however, told Fox News, “They’re all saying,
‘Don’t do that. You don’t do that. You shouldn’t do that.’ But I’m putting
conservative people on and I’m very proud of Neil Gorsuch. He’s been
outstanding. His opinions are you know so well written, so brilliant. And
I’m going to try and do something like that but I don’t think I’m going to
be so specific in the questions I’ll be asking. And I’m actually told I
shouldn’t be.”

Still, NJ News
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(7/1, Salant) notes that Trump “has pledged to nominate justices who will
overturn Roe v. Wade,” and “said he would choose from a list of people
vetted by the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group that opposes
abortion. So he already knows how anyone on the list will vote on abortion,
meaning he doesn’t have to ask their views on the issue.” The Washington
Examiner
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(7/1, Williams) reports “Trump judicial adviser” and vice president of the
Federalist Society, Leonard Leo, on Sunday “said none of the reportedly top
individuals on the administration’s shortlist of candidates...have a clear
position” on Roe v. Wade. Leo told Fox News, “Prospective nominees like
Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Barrett, and Raymond Kethledge, and Tom Hardiman
are people who have not specifically said they oppose Roe v. Wade, and
their writings and their work show that they are very fair.”

The Washington Free Beacon
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(7/1, Kugle) notes that “all four names Leo mentioned are on Trump’s list
of potential Supreme Court justices,” but when asked if they are the front
runners, Leo said, “No, I don’t think it’s fair to say that, and here’s
why. The president is really in the driver’s seat along with the assistance
of White House counsel Don McGahn. Those are people who are under very
serious consideration.” Sen. Richard Blumenthal said on CBS’ Face the
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(7/1, Brennan), “The President has said that he will appoint someone only
if he or she would ‘automatically overturn Roe v. Wade.’” He added, “This
decision will shape the Court for years to come and it could lead to
criminalizing reproductive rights, as they were prior to Roe v. Wade when
women were prosecuted and women died.”

The New York Times
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(7/1, A1, Belluck, Hoffman), however, reports that “even without legal
abortion,” the nation “would be very different from America before abortion
was legal.” A “full-fledged return to an era of back-alley, coat-hanger
abortions seems improbable” due to “a burst of scientific innovation has
produced more effective, simpler and safer ways to prevent pregnancies and
to stop them after conception.”

The AP
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(6/30, Harrisburg (PA), Patriot-News), meanwhile, reports that “some
evangelical leaders are downplaying their fortune on an issue that has
defined their movement for decades.” Jerry Falwell Jr. told the AP, “What
people don’t understand is that if you overturn Roe v. Wade, all that does
is give the states the right to decide whether abortion is legal or
illegal. My guess is that there’d probably be less than 20 states that
would make abortion illegal if given that right.”

E.J. Dionne Jr. writes in his Washington Post
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(7/1, Dionne) column that abortion rights supporters were “among the
earliest to speak out forcefully against a right-wing nomination from
Trump,” and the abortion question “takes on a special urgency because
Kennedy, while deeply conservative in so many areas, was a relative
moderate on social issues.” Still, Dionne argues that while the “future of
abortion rights is central to the coming battle...so are civil rights,
corporate power and our democratic capacity to correct social injustices.
Conservatives should not be allowed to distract attention from the aspects
of their agenda that would horrify even many who voted for Donald Trump.”

*Collins Won’t Support Nominee With “Demonstrated Hostility” To Roe
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(7/1, story 6, 2:00, Jackson), Kelly O’Donnell said “a swing vote in the
Senate will likely be Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, who supports
abortion rights.” Collins, Reuters
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(7/1, Dunsmuir) reports, said Sunday that she will not support a nominee
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“I would not support a nominee who demonstrated hostility to Roe v. Wade.”
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(7/1, Raddatz), Collins said, “I told [Trump] that I was looking for a
nominee that would demonstrate a respect for precedent.” Reuters says her
comments “narrowed the path to confirmation facing any nominee” the
President selects. The New York Times
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(7/1, Fandos, Cochrane) says her remarks Sunday “appeared to edge beyond
the position that Ms. Collins staked out in conversations with reporters
last week, when she made clear that she saw Roe v. Wade as precedent that
should not be overturned. She had not said explicitly that the view could
sway her vote.”

The Washington Post
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(7/1, Long) reports Collins “said Trump assured her that he would not ask
nominees whether they would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade,” which she said
she feels would be “inappropriate” for Trump to ask. The Hill
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(7/1, Samuels) reports Collins also suggested Trump “broaden his search
beyond the list of 25 candidates that the White House released in
November.” The White House “did not immediately respond to a request for
comment on Sunday.” To the New York Post
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(7/1, Moore) Collins is “a crucial vote in confirming a Supreme Court
nominee in the Senate,” to Bloomberg News
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(7/1, Niquette, Condon) she is “crucial,” to the AP
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(7/1, Yen, Thomas) she is “a key vote,” and the Washington Times
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(7/1, Richardson) says she “seen as critical in approving President Trump’s
nominee to fill the seat.”

*Durbin: Trump Seeking Nominee To Overturn Roe v. Wade, ACA.
*The Washington
Times
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(7/1, Richardson) reports Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin on Sunday
“accused President Trump of seeking a Supreme Court pick who will overturn
Roe v. Wade and Obamacare in what has become a rallying cry for Democrats
trying to defeat the still-unnamed nominee.” Appearing on Fox News Sunday,
Durbin said, “The President is looking for someone who will overturn Roe v.
Wade. But even equally important, he’s looking for someone on the court who
will make sure that they rule that the Affordable Care Act’s protection of
those with preexisting conditions is unconstitutional.”

*Cantwell: Wrong Vote On Nominee Could Be “Career-Ending Move.” *The
Washington Times
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(7/1, Richardson) reports Sen. Maria Cantwell (D) “warned her colleagues
Sunday that a wrong decision” on Trump’s nominee could become a
“career-ending move.” Cantwell said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” yesterday, “I
think that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle know that this vote
could be one of the key votes of their entire career. And they know that no
matter what spin comes out of the White House, if they vote for somebody
who’s going to change precedent, it could be a career-ending move.” The Hill
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(7/1, Birnbaum) also reports Cantwell’s comments.

A Washington Times
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(7/1, McLaughlin) analysis, meanwhile, says “red-state Democrats seeking
re-election this fall were already facing the difficult task of navigating
between their own virulently anti-Trump national party and the
Republican-leaning voters needed to win back home. But that narrow path has
become even more of a tightrope now that incumbents will be asked to take
sides” on Trump’s nomination. The Times says if Republicans “hold firm, the
Senate is likely to vote on a Supreme Court nominee just as the midterm
campaign season hits full stride.” But it “also means vulnerable Democrats
in states such as West Virginia and North Dakota will have to choose
between a president who easily won their states in 2016 and a frenzied
liberal base intent on blocking anyone he chooses.”

*ABC News: White House Officials Eyeing Exits Likely To Stay
Through Confirmation. *ABC News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=036-2ec&t=c>
(7/1, Palmeri) reports on its website that “top White House officials worn
out from the chaos of the Trump administration and eyeing the exits in the
coming weeks are now considering staying on through the confirmation of a
Supreme Court justice, three White House officials and two outside
advisors” say. White House Counsel Don McGahn, Legislative Affairs Director
Marc Short and Domestic Policy Director Andrew Bremberg “have told
colleagues in the days following Supreme Court Justice Kennedy’s retirement
announcement that they plan to stay on staff through the confirmation
process.”

*Toomey: Special Counsel Investigation Shouldn’t Prevent Trump
Nomination. *Sen. Pat Toomey (R), asked on CBS’ Face the Nation[image:
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<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=037-fca&t=c>
(7/1, Brennan) about the question of the Special Counsel investigation and
the probability of the justice Trump appoints ruling in the case, said, “I
think that is a ridiculous argument that is made as just an attempt to make
way for the real position, which is that President Trump should never be
able to confirm a vacancy.” He added, “I don’t remember hearing the
Democrats making that argument when President Bill Clinton was in fact
personally under investigation when a vacancy occurred. My understanding is
that President Trump is not himself personally the subject of the
investigation even. I think that is a non-argument.”
Foreign Policy
Trump Says He’ll Delay Signing NAFTA Deal Until After Midterms.

The AP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=038-51c&t=c>
(7/1, Thomas) reports that in his interview that aired yesterday on Fox
News’ Sunday Morning Futures[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=039-e74&t=c>
(7/1), President Trump said he “intends to delay signing a revised version
of the North American Free Trade Agreement until after the fall midterm
elections, a move aimed at reaching a better deal with Canada and Mexico.”
Trump said “that he could quickly sign an agreement with the United States’
neighbors,” but, “I’m not happy with it. I want to make it more fair. ... I
want to wait until after the election.” Trump “again threatened to impose
tariffs on imported cars, trucks and auto parts,” saying, “The cars are the
big ones.” The Wall Street Journal
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=03a-ecb&t=c>
(7/1, Schlesinger) says Trump views the threat to impose auto tariffs as
his greatest leverage to win concessions from trading partners.

*Canada Begins Imposing Tariffs On US Goods. *The AP
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=03b-20b&t=c>
(7/1, Wiseman, Lindeman) reports that Canada yesterday began imposing
tariffs “on $12.6 billion in US goods as retaliation for the Trump
administration’s new taxes on steel and aluminum imported to the United
States.” While some US products, “mostly steel and iron, face 25 percent
tariffs, the same penalty the United States slapped on imported steel at
the end of May,” others, “from ketchup to pizza to dishwasher detergent,
will face a 10 percent tariff at the Canadian border, the same as America’s
tax on imported aluminum.” The Washington Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=03c-9fd&t=c>
(7/1, Long) says Trump “defiantly stood by his tariffs on Sunday as Canada
hit back hard, Mexico was poised to elect a new leader eager to confront
him, and the European Union issued a scathing condemnation of his policy as
‘in effect, a tax on the American people.’” Trump “brushed off the mounting
pressure” and “shrugged off fears that the tariffs will hurt the economy.”
Trump said on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures[image: Image removed by
sender. Video]
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=03d-4cd&t=c>,
“Every country is calling every day, saying, ‘Let’s make a deal, let’s make
a deal. It’s going to all work out.”

*EU Analysis: Auto Tariffs Will Cost US Economy $13-14B. *Politico
Europe
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=03e-752&t=c>
(7/1, Eder) reports that in response to a US request for comment on the
issue of imposing tariffs on European cars, the European Commission
“warned” that such tariffs “will be harmful first and foremost for the US
economy.” The 11-page document dated this past Friday and sent to the
Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security says the EU’s
internal analysis “shows that an additional import tariff of 25 percent,
applied to automobiles and automotive parts, would in first instance have a
negative impact on US GDP in the order of 13-14 billion USD, and the
current account balance of the US would be not affected positively.”

Meanwhile, the Financial Times
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(7/1, A1, Brunsden) reports that the European Commission has warned the US
that Trump’s threat to impose auto tariffs risks sparking retaliatory
measures valued at as much as $300 billion.

*Trump Says GM Will Build Cars In America. *The Washington Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=040-0ed&t=c>
(7/1, Long) reports that after GM warned on Friday that Trump’s “tariffs
and the retaliation from other nations will hurt the company, forcing GM to
cut jobs and putting it at a disadvantage against foreign competitors.” On Fox
News’ Sunday Morning Futures[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=041-072&t=c>,
Trump “fired back” at the company, “saying the only consequence would be
that more cars will be built in the United States.” Said Trump, “What’s
going to really happen is there’s going to be no tax. You know why? They’re
going to build their cars in America. They’re going to make them here.”

*Trump: Harley Will Take a “Big Hit” For Building Motorcycles
Outside US. *The New York Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=042-ea1&t=c>
(7/1, Schwab) reports that in an interview that aired on Fox News Sunday
Morning Futures[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
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Sunday, Trump “accused American motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson of using
tariffs as an excuse to produce more bikes overseas.” Trump said, “Look, I
devoted a lot of time to Harley-Davidson. I treated ​them good.” Trump
added, “I guarantee you everybody that ever bought a Harley Davidson voted
for Trump,” and “I would have to – they call them Bikers for Trump. There’s
hundreds.” Trump said that Harley-Davidson “made this deal at the beginning
of the year, long before they ever heard of the word tariff,” and he added
that the company would take a “big hit” for “not building its bikes in the
United States.” Trump said, “Harley enthusiasts are my voters. ... They
don’t want Harley-Davidson getting cute to make $2 more.”

Politico
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=044-1f5&t=c>
(7/1, Griffiths) says Trump’s comments about Harley “echoed his comments on
Twitter during the week,” when he wrote
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=045-2bf&t=c>,
“If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end — they
surrendered, they quit! The Aura will be gone and they will be taxed like
never before!”

*Draft Bill Ordered By Trump Would Declare US Abandonment Of WTO
Rules. *Jonathan Swan writes on Axios
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=046-7be&t=c>
(7/1) that the site “has obtained a leaked draft of a Trump administration
bill – ordered by the president himself – that would declare America’s
abandonment of fundamental World Trade Organization rules.” The “stunning”
draft “essentially provides Trump a license to raise US tariffs at will,
without congressional consent and international rules be damned.” A source
familiar with the bill said, “It would be the equivalent of walking away
from the WTO and our commitments there without us actually notifying our
withdrawal,” The source who described the bill as “insane,” said, “The good
news is Congress would never give this authority to the president.”

*Bloomberg News: Winner Of US-China Trade War Will Be Who Loses
Least. *Bloomberg News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=047-2d2&t=c>
(7/1, Miller, Curran) considers the potential impact of the looming trade
war between the US and China, reporting that as the two countries “prepare
to slap duties on each other, risking a spiral of tit-for-tat tariffs that
imperils global growth,” the “victor in an economic war of attrition will
instead be which nation loses least.” According to Bloomberg Economics,
“the looming US tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports and a
like-for-like retaliation from Beijing could cost China about 0.2 percent
of gross domestic product and the US a little less, a manageable amount in
both instances.” However, “where the dispute goes next that poses a bigger
threat. The direct cost to the world’s two biggest economies is probably
the most straightforward forecast. From a breakdown in the global supply
chain to a ratcheting up of military tension over the South China Sea, the
collateral damage represents an incalculable unknown.”

*Johnson: Congress Must Reclaim Tariff Power From Executive Branch.
*Sen. Ron Johnson said on Fox News’ The Journal Editorial Report[image:
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<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=048-d4d&t=c>
(6/30), “I think certainly over time Congress must regain so much of the
power and this is just one of the areas in terms of tariffs. We need to
reclaim that power. Let’s face it, we need an executive to negotiate trade
deals but those should be negotiated with full consultation and the deals
should come back to Congress for ratification and approval.”

*China Targeting Taiwanese Chip Makers. *The Wall Street Journal
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=049-6c1&t=c>
(7/1, Yap) reports that Taiwanese officials and company executives say
China is targeting Taiwanese manufacturers who make chips for American
companies such as Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm. China manufactures most of
the smartphones and computers in the world, but it imports nearly all of
the semiconductors needed to run the devices. By targeting Taiwanese
manufacturers, the officials and executives say, China is seeking to reduce
its dependence on foreign suppliers.
Bolton Downplays Reports On North Korea Weapons Concealment.

National Security Adviser Bolton “on Sunday downplayed reports suggesting
that North Korea is trying to conceal parts of its nuclear weapons
program,” reports Politico
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=04a-8b2&t=c>
(7/1, Kullgren). “I don’t really don’t want to comment on anything related
to intelligence,” Bolton told [image: Image removed by sender. Video]CBS’
Face The Nation
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=04b-fe6&t=c>,
adding, “I’d rather discuss it as a more general proposition.” Bolton
continued, “We’re very well aware of North Korea’s patterns of behavior
over decades of negotiating with the United States. We know exactly what
the risks are of them using negotiations to drag out the length of time
they have to continue their nuclear, chemical, biological weapons programs,
and ballistic missiles” He said President Trump “would like to see these
discussions move promptly to get a resolution. This has been the advice
that China’s leaders Xi Jinping has given us as well.” Bolton reiterated
that “we’re going to try and proceed to implement what the two leaders
agreed to in Singapore, but rather than have a-a series of reports things
are going better things are not going well, they are concealing this,
they’re not concealing that. Really it doesn’t serve the purpose of
advancing the negotiations.”

Bolton similarly told [image: Image removed by sender. Video]Fox
News Fox News Sunday
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(7/1, Wallace), “We are using the full range of our capabilities to
understand what North Korea is doing,” and “it doesn’t profit the
possibility of eliminating North Korea’s nuclear weapons to talk on a
day-to-day basis, they are doing this, they are not doing this, they are
doing the other thing.” He reiterated, “There’s nobody involved in this
discussion with North Korea in the administration who is overburdened by
naivety,” and Trump “has been very clear he’s not going to make mistakes at
prior administrations made.”

The AP
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(7/1, Pennington, Baldor) reports Bolton also said the Administration has
“developed a program” to dismantle North Korea’s weapons program, and that
“Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be discussing this with the North
Koreans in the near future about really how to dismantle all of their WMD
and ballistic missile programs in a year.” Bolton added, “If they have the
strategic decision already made to do that, and they’re cooperative, we can
move very quickly.” The AP says Bolton’s remarks “appeared to be the first
time the Trump administration had publicly suggested a timeline for North
Korea to fulfill the commitment leader Kim Jong Un made at a summit with
President Donald Trump last month for the ‘complete denuclearization’ of
the Korean Peninsula.”

A New York Times
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(7/1, Sanger, Broad) analysis says Bolton suggested “a far more aggressive
schedule than the one Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlined for Congress
recently, reflecting a strain inside the administration over how to match
promises with realism.” Pompeo is expected to arrive in Pyongyang this week
“with a proposed schedule for disarmament that would begin with a
declaration by North Korea of all its weapons, production facilities and
missiles,” but his advisers “have cautioned him that North Korea will not
give up its arsenal of 20 to 60 weapons until the last stages of any
disarmament plan – if it gives them up at all.” The Times says the “idea is
to establish multiple tests of the North’s willingness to carry through on
Mr. Kim’s vague commitment to Mr. Trump,” but under the proposals
“presented to Mr. Pompeo, the dismantling of existing nuclear weapons would
come last.”

“Some experts” also “disputed Bolton’s optimistic time frame,”
saying that “the complete process could take far longer,” Reuters
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=04f-261&t=c>
(7/1, Chiacu) reports. Thomas Countryman, a State Department arms control
officer under former President Obama, commented, “I do not believe it would
be possible to verify full dismantlement within a year, nor have I yet seen
evidence of a firm DPRK decision to undertake full dismantlement.” Stanford
University professor and nuclear scientist Siegfried Hecker “predicted it
would take around 10 years to dismantle and clean up a substantial part of
North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear site.” Reports of North Korea’s weapons
program concealment also elicited skepticism. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)
“said she was troubled by the news reports,” and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
“echoed the need for skepticism.”

Collins told [image: Image removed by sender. Video]CNN’s State of
the Union
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=050-caa&t=c>
(7/1, Tapper), “North Korea has a long history of cheating on agreements
that it’s made with previous administrations.” She added, “I supported the
President talking with the North Korean dictator because I do believe that
has the potential for increasing our safety and eventually leading to the
denuclearization of North Korea but there’s no doubt that in order to
achieve that goal, we need verifiable unimpeded reliable inspections and
without those inspections, we can have no guarantee that North Korea is not
cheating once again.”

Graham told [image: Image removed by sender. Video]NBC’s Meet the
Press
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(7/1, Todd), “Nobody should be surprised” by the reports, “but here’s what
I would tell North Korea; there is no place for Donald Trump to kick the
can down the road, you met with him in person, he is offering you a deal of
a lifetime. I would take it.” Graham continued, “It would concern me a lot
if they are expanding the nuclear program as they meet with the president.”

*Trump Lauds North Korea Meeting. *In an appearance on [image:
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<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=052-3e9&t=c>
(7/1, Bartiromo), Trump said of North Korean denuclearization, “I think
they are very serious about it; we had a very good chemistry. you know, we
had a lot of points.” He added, “We went on a lot of different points, not
to go over them, denuclearization getting the remains back from great
heroes, great people, getting the hostages back.” Trump continued, “I said
let’s not do – I call them the war games, they are dropping bombs all over
the place every six months.” He said, “It is unbelievably expensive to do
that; planes fly in from Guam, these massive, you know, bombers, and they
are flying in from Guam, it is crazy. so we gave nothing.” Trump
reiterated, “I really believe North Korea has a tremendous future. I got a
long really – I got along really well with Chairman Kim.” He added, “We had
a great chemistry.”

*US, North Korean Officials Hold Talks On Implementing Summit
Agreement. *The Washington Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=053-44a&t=c>
(7/1, Wolfgang, Miller) says Bolton’s claim of an “ambitious time frame”
comes as the Administration “is quietly accelerating negotiations with
North Korea in what analysts describe as the crucial next step that will
make or break the denuclearization agreement struck at the Singapore
summit.” A US delegation “wants to put some meat on the bone of the
four-point declaration signed June 12 in Singapore by President Trump and
Mr. Kim.” The US officials “are prodding Pyongyang to provide a full
inventory of its nuclear weapons program and to agree on a timeline for
dismantling it, though it’s not yet clear whether Mr. Kim would agree to
the kind of ambitious timetable Mr. Bolton laid out Sunday.”

Senior State Department officials told CNN
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=054-bdf&t=c>
(7/1, Labott) that Sung Kim, the US Ambassador to the Philippines and “one
of the key US officials dealing with the North Koreans leading up to the
Trump-Kim summit,” is leading the delegation, which is slated to meet with
North Korean officials at the border village of Panmunjob on Sunday. The
talks constitute “the first face-to-face conversations between the two
countries since the summit last month” and “were held to work on
implementing the agreement reached between the two leaders, the officials
said.” Separately, Anthony Ruggiero, a North Korea expert at the Foundation
for Defense of Democracies and former official at the State and Treasury
Departments, “will start his job as director of North Korea issues on the
National Security Council on Monday, the think tank’s chief executive, Mark
Dubowitz, said in a post on Twitter.”

*WTimes: Nations Growing Impatient With North Korea Sanctions.
*A Washington
Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=055-212&t=c>
(7/1, Malek) analysis says the Administration “has insisted repeatedly that
tough international sanctions will remain in place until North Korean
leader Kim Jong-un honors his commitment to permanently give up his nuclear
arsenal,” but “there are growing signs other countries looking to do
business with Pyongyang aren’t willing to wait that long.” Secretary of
State Pompeo “acknowledged at a Senate budget hearing last week” that US
officials “have already observed some ‘modest’ backsliding by China in
enforcing strict sanctions on the North.” Yet, even President Trump “has
hinted that the deadline for doing business may be flexible.” The President
“sees business and investment opportunities for North Korea, one of the
most isolated economies in the world, should the nuclear question be
resolved.” Some private analysts caution, however, that “efforts to ease or
evade the sanctions could backfire if Mr. Trump reverses course or
concludes that the diplomatic route has not borne fruit.”
Bolton: Trump To Discuss “Range Of Issues” During “Unstructured” Summit
With Putin.

In a Sunday appearance on [image: Image removed by sender. Video]CBS’ Face
the Nation
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=056-e19&t=c>
(7/1, Brennan), National Security Adviser Bolton said the goal of President
Trump’s upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin “is for the
two leaders to have a chance to sit down, not in the context of some
larger, multi-lateral meeting but just the two of them to go over what is
on their mind about a whole range of issues.” Bolton added, “We’ll see what
happens when the two of them get together.”

Bolton similarly told [image: Image removed by sender. Video]Fox
News Sunday
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=057-7d6&t=c>
(7/1, Wallace) that “it’s very important to have this bilateral meeting not
on the margins of a larger meeting, but to have a conversation with
Vladimir Putin that covers the full range of issues. I expect it will be
somewhat unstructured, certainly in the one-on-one meeting but it will give
them a chance to go over some of these issues free of the pressure.” Bolton
added, “I think in establishing that line of communication the president
has very much in mind he wants to understand the Russian position and
perhaps more importantly he wants Vladimir Putin to understand our
position.” He said “if breakthroughs come from that, that will be great.
But frankly, having this meeting roughly a year and a half into the
administration is a key fact.” For example, Bolton said, “there are
possibilities for doing a larger negotiation on helping to get Iranian
forces out of Syria and back into Iran which would be a significant step
forward.”

The Washington Post
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(7/1, Nakamura) reports “Bolton dismissed a question about whether Trump
has been more willing to criticize US allies than authoritarian leaders of
rival nations, including Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.” He told Fox
News, “I don’t think anybody ought to have a case of the vapors over
discussions we have in NATO or the G-7 versus discussions we have with
Putin or Kim Jong Un. They’re very, very different; the president treats
them differently. He understands what the strategic interests are, and
that’s what he’s trying to pursue.”

The New York Post
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=059-0f4&t=c>
(7/1, Moore) notes “Bolton met with Putin last week to lay the groundwork
for the meeting and said Putin continued to dismiss allegations of
interference.” Reuters
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=05a-e74&t=c>
(7/1, Chiacu) reports that on the issue of Russia’s annexation of Crimea,
Bolton said he discussed the matter with Putin during the 90-minute meeting
in Moscow. Bolton said that “Putin was pretty clear with me about it, and
my response was we’re going to have to agree to disagree on Ukraine.” He
reiterated, “That’s not the position of the United States.” Bolton said
during the Wednesday talks, “he discussed concerns about Russian meddling”
in the 2016 presidential election as well. The [image: Image removed by
sender. Video]CBS Weekend News
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=05b-0fd&t=c>
(7/1, story 6, 1:50, Quijano) reported Bolton said during the Wednesday
talks, what Putin “said was, there was no meddling in 2016 by the Russian
state. ... I think that’s an interesting statement. I think it’s worth
pursuing. I’m sure the President will want the pursue it.”

In an analysis, the Los Angeles Times
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=05c-12e&t=c>
(7/1, King) says Bolton, “who was previously known as a Russia hawk, made a
distinction between Putin’s previous flat denial of any Russian
involvement, saying that this time, the Russian leader had limited his
disavowal to any state interference in the 2016 US presidential vote,
implying that other actors were involved.”

*Blumenthal Skeptical Of Russia Summit. *Sen. Richard Blumenthal
(D) told CBS’ Face the Nation[image: Image removed by sender. Video]
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=05d-24d&t=c>
(7/1, Brennan) that Trump’s “meeting in Helsinki is deeply alarming. Let’s
remember that Russia is an enemy and adversary continuing to attack our
nation through cyber and social media posing a direct threat in the 2018
election.” He said, “Donald Trump seems to be the only American in public
office who has refused to acknowledge explicitly their attack in 2016. They
continue to invade Ukraine, and they support a war criminal in Syria who
continues to attack his own people with chemical weapons.” Blumenthal also
warned that “the failure to make the Russians pay a price and legitimizing
Putin, a KGB thug, with this meeting is very dangerous.”

*Bolton: Putin’s Claim Meddling Wasn’t Done By “Russian State” Is
“Worth Pursuing.” *The CBS Weekend News[image: Image removed by sender.
Video]
<http://mailview.bulletinintelligence.com/mailview.aspx?m=2018070201biden&r=email-a733&l=05e-88c&t=c>
(7/1, story 6, 1:50, Quijano) reported Trump “quickly changed the subject”
Sunday when asked on Fox News about his upcoming summit with Russian
President Vladimir Putin and whether he will bring up Russia’s meddling in
US elections. Trump: “I would like to see some answers as to why we didn’t
take the server, why the FBI didn’t take the server from the DNC.” National
Security Adviser Bolton, however, told CBS he brought the issue up in his
recent face-to-face meeting with Putin. Bolton: “What he said was, there
was no meddling in 2016 by the Russian state. ... I think that’s an
interesting statement. I think it’s worth pursuing. I’m sure the President
will want the pursue it.” CBS (Saberi) added that the planned summit has
“added to concern here in Europe that President Trump is moving closer to
Russia while criticizing the European Union and NATO.”
Merkel’s Bavarian Allies Divided Over EU Migrant Deal.

Reuters
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(7/1, Poltz) reports leaders of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bavarian
ally, the Christian Social Union (CSU), “argued long into Sunday evening
over whether to accept immigration proposals the German chancellor brought
back from Brussels, heightening uncertainty over the future of her
government coalition.” Earlier, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, the CSU
chairman, “said he saw no alternative to turning some migrants back at the
German border, a party source said, setting him on a collision course with
Merkel.” The CSU “is divided over how best to face off a challenge from the
anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) in October’s regional
election, although Seehofer and Bavarian premier Markus Soeder are both
keen to force Merkel to harden her stance on refugees.” Most analysts
“expect Merkel to survive the clash with the CSU,” but “it is unlikely to
be the last occasion on which the sister party seeks to distance itself
from a chancellor it sees as too centrist for its own supporters.”

The Wall Street Journal
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(7/1, Thomas, Marson) says Seehofer’s commends during the late Sunday
deliberations may steer Germany toward a government crisis, because if
Merkel fires Seehofer, effectively ending their parties’ seven-decade
alliance, Merkel’s coalition would no longer hold a parliamentary majority.
Seehofer will release a statement soon, according to a CSU official, who
declined to say whether the CSU may sever its coalition with Merkel’s
Christian Democratic Union or whether Seehofer intends to resign.
Mexican Voters Deliver Leftist López Obrador “Landslide Victory.”

The Los Angeles Times
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(7/1, McDonnell) reports, “Leftist candidate Andres Manuel López Obrador
has won Mexico’s presidential election as his competitors have conceded
based on exit polls showing he is headed for a landslide victory.” López
Obrador “vowed a sweeping ‘transformation’ of a nation where voters have
expressed broad discontent with rampant corruption, rising crime and a
sluggish economy.” President Trump tweeted
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his congratulations to López Obrador on Sunday night, writing, “I look very
much forward to working with him. There is much to be done that will
benefit both the United States and Mexico!” The Washington Post
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(7/1, Partlow, Averbuch) similarly says “López Obrador’s victory represents
an emphatic rejection of the traditional politicians whom he regularly
calls the ‘mafia of power.’” The Post adds that President Trump “loomed in
the background of this vote.” The President “was not a wedge issue in the
election – all candidates opposed his immigration and trade policies and
his anti-Mexican rhetoric – but the new Mexican president will have to
manage cross-border relations that are unusually fraught.”

The New York Times
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(7/1, A1, Ahmed, Villegas) attributes López Obrador’s “landslide victory,”
which “upended the nation’s political establishment and handed him a
sweeping mandate to reshape the country,” to “a wave of populist anger
fueled by rampant corruption and violence.” The election outcome “puts a
leftist leader at the helm of Latin America’s second-largest economy for
the first time in decades, a prospect that has filled millions of Mexicans
with hope – and the nation’s elites with trepidation.” It also “represents
a clear rejection of the status quo in the nation, which for the last
quarter century has been defined by a centrist vision and an embrace of
globalization that many Mexicans feel has not served them.”

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(7/1, story 7, 2:05, Jackson) said López Obrador’s “style is much like
President Trump’s.” Known as AMLO, López Obrador is “big on promises with
few specifics. Anti-establishment, despite running for President here twice
before.” López Obrador will now “face a dismissive US Administration” and
“Trump’s controversial migrant policy separating families, putting pressure
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(7/1, story 6, 0:20, Llamas) reported that the “run-up to election has been
particularly bloody.” The [image: Image removed by sender. Video]CBS
Weekend News
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(7/1, story 7, 0:35, Quijano) similarly reported that “it was a very bloody
campaign season. In the nine months leading up to today’s election, it is
estimated 145 candidates were killed.”
At Least 19 Killed In Afghanistan Attack Targeting Afghan Sikhs, Hindus.

The New York Times
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(7/1, Ghazi, Mashal) reports, “A suicide bomber struck a crowd of Afghan
Sikhs and Hindus arriving to meet with President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday as
he visited the eastern city of Jalalabad, an attack that killed at least 19
people and wounded 10 others, officials said.” The attack “occurred well
outside the compound where Mr. Ghani was holding meetings,” but it “claimed
the life of the only Sikh candidate running in elections in the country
this year, a further blow to Afghanistan’s once celebrated diversity, which
has been badly affected by decades of violence.” It “was the second deadly
attack in 24 hours in the province surrounding Jalalabad, known as
Nangarhar, where the Islamic State has a foothold and has repeatedly
claimed responsibility for urban suicide bombings.” The AP
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(7/1, Faiez) reports, “Narendr Singh, one of the wounded Sikh from Sunday’s
attack” said during a phone interview “from his hospital bed in Jalalabad
that the attack targeted their convoy.” The AP adds that “Sikhs and Hindus
have long suffered widespread discrimination in the conservative Muslim
country and been targeted by Islamic extremists.”

The Washington Post
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(7/1, Salahuddin) says it was unclear whether the suicide bombing “was
aimed at Ghani’s visit.” Taliban insurgents and ISIS affiliates “are active
in the province,” but no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Suspicion fell on ISIS for the Saturday night for the beheading of “three
guards at a school in a district in Nangahar,” in part because the group
“had threatened weeks ago to target schools in the province.”
Trump Demands OPEC Pump More Oil.

Bloomberg News
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(7/1, Dipaola) reports that President Trump tweeted
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on Saturday that “the Saudi king had agreed to raise production to cut the
cost of oil for consumers.” The White House “later backpedaled from his
assertion,” but in an interview that aired Sunday on Fox News’ Sunday
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Trump “compounded the pressure, demanding that OPEC stop what he called its
manipulation of the oil market and insisting the group pump more.”
Domestic Policy
Trump: Democrats “Will Never Win Another Election” With Calls To Abolish
ICE.

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(7/1, story 4, 2:50, Llamas), Tara Palmeri said President Trump is
“attacking those calling to abolish and reform ICE” as “some Democrats
[are] lashing out at the agency.” The Washington Times
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(7/1, Boyer) reports Trump said Sunday that Democrats “will never win
another election” if they keep pushing to abolish ICE. In an interview with Fox
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Trump said, “I hope they keep thinking about it. Because they’re going to
get beaten so badly. You get rid of ICE, you’re going to have a country
that you’re going to be afraid to walk out of your house. I love that issue
if they’re going to actually do that.” He predicted that “if the Democrats
go left…getting rid of ICE, and having open borders…all it’s going to do is
leads to massive, massive crime.” The Times notes that calls to abolish ICE
have been endorsed “by leading Democrats,” such as Sens. Elizabeth Warren
and Kirsten Gillibrand.

The New York Times
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(7/1, Cochrane) says Trump “spent part of his weekend at his New Jersey
golf resort tweeting his support for the agency and its involvement in
implementing his ‘zero tolerance’ immigration